Muster Roll, 1850 – 1920
The Regimental Muster Roll is a list of personnel who served in the antecedent regiments between 1850 to 1920, providing an important insight into their regiments history and the men who served in it.
With over 10,000 separate entries it includes such information as an individual’s name, rank, number and their medal entitlements. Many records also list a short biography, some even contain images!
The majority of the indexed names you will find here are from the following series of documents at The National Archives:
- WO 12/844: Muster Roll 1854
- WO 12/845: Muster Roll 1855
- WO 12/846: Muster Roll 1856
- WO 12/847: Muster Roll 1857
- WO 12/848: Muster Roll 1858
- WO 76: Records of Officers’ Services, 1760-1914
- WO 96: Militia Attestation Papers, 1806-1915
- WO 97: Other Ranks’ Service Papers, 1764-1913
- WO 100: Campaign Medal and Award Rolls
- WO 128: Imperial Yeomanry, Soldiers’ documents, South African War 1899-1902
- WO 339: Officers’ Services, 1914-1920
- WO 363: Other Ranks’ Service Records, 1914-1920
- WO 364: Other Ranks’ Pension Records, 1914-1920
- WO 372: Campaign Medal Index Cards 1914-1920
- WO 374: Officers’ Services, (temporary commissions and Territorial Force), 1898-1922
The dates given are the date ranges for the entire series, although the data below begins in 1850 and ends in 1920.
WWI Daily Reports: Missing, Dead, Wounded and POWs 1914-18.
Commonwealth Graves Commission
The Missing Records
Despite best efforts in locating these individual records, there will be many who do not appear here; individuals for whom no record of service survives.
This may be because the person was killed whilst serving their country before 1914, their files later destroyed; because they did not serve overseas, or because their records were destroyed during the Second World War.
3rd Hussars
‘These intolerably nameless names’, as Siegfried Sassoon referred to them, should never be forgotten or ignored, and yet they cascade so relentlessly that they are often difficult to grapple with; within a very short space of time we are inclined to switch off; we soon start to lose our awareness of individual names as we become overwhelmed by the sheer torrent of them; our senses simply become overloaded to the point where we are only aware of the enormity of what stands before us.
We can no more get to know the men behind the names than we can get to know people by reading their names in a telephone directory, and yet it is possible to breathe life into ‘these intolerably nameless names’ by uncovering and telling their stories.
Nec Aspera Terrent
Muster Roll: A-E
Muster Roll: F-J
Muster Roll: K-O
Muster Roll: P-T
Muster Roll: U-Z
4th Hussars
‘These intolerably nameless names’, as Siegfried Sassoon referred to them, should never be forgotten or ignored, and yet they cascade so relentlessly that they are often difficult to grapple with; within a very short space of time we are inclined to switch off; we soon start to lose our awareness of individual names as we become overwhelmed by the sheer torrent of them; our senses simply become overloaded to the point where we are only aware of the enormity of what stands before us.
We can no more get to know the men behind the names than we can get to know people by reading their names in a telephone directory, and yet it is possible to breathe life into ‘these intolerably nameless names’ by uncovering and telling their stories.
Mente et Manu
Muster Roll: A-E
Muster Roll: F-J
Muster Roll: K-O
Muster Roll: P-T
Muster Roll: U-Z
7th Hussars
‘These intolerably nameless names’, as Siegfried Sassoon referred to them, should never be forgotten or ignored, and yet they cascade so relentlessly that they are often difficult to grapple with; within a very short space of time we are inclined to switch off; we soon start to lose our awareness of individual names as we become overwhelmed by the sheer torrent of them; our senses simply become overloaded to the point where we are only aware of the enormity of what stands before us.
We can no more get to know the men behind the names than we can get to know people by reading their names in a telephone directory, and yet it is possible to breathe life into ‘these intolerably nameless names’ by uncovering and telling their stories.
Honi soit qui mal y pense
Muster Roll: A-E
Muster Roll: F-J
Muster Roll: K-O
Muster Roll: P-T
Muster Roll: U-Z
8th Hussars
‘These intolerably nameless names’, as Siegfried Sassoon referred to them, should never be forgotten or ignored, and yet they cascade so relentlessly that they are often difficult to grapple with; within a very short space of time we are inclined to switch off; we soon start to lose our awareness of individual names as we become overwhelmed by the sheer torrent of them; our senses simply become overloaded to the point where we are only aware of the enormity of what stands before us.
We can no more get to know the men behind the names than we can get to know people by reading their names in a telephone directory, and yet it is possible to breathe life into ‘these intolerably nameless names’ by uncovering and telling their stories.
Pristinae virtutis memores
Muster Roll: A-E
Muster Roll: F-J
Muster Roll: K-O
Muster Roll: P-T
Muster Roll: U-Z
