UK, Army Roll of Honour, 1939-1945

This database contains the Roll of Honour – a listing of British Army casualties from World War II.

The original data comes from the National Archives records series WO 304, War Office: Roll of Honour, Second World War. This Roll was compiled from various War Office records between 1944 and 1949. Originally the data was encoded onto cards using a Hollerith Machine (a unit record machine), the original print outs of which are kept at the National Archives. The cards have since been decoded and transcribed by the Naval & Military Press and published on CD.

Information recorded on the Roll of Honour includes:

• Name of soldier


• Initials, titles, and decorations


• Birthplace


• Residence


• Enlisted rank


• Rank at time of death


• Enlisted Regiment


• Regiment at time of death


• Theater of War or country where wounded or died


• Death date