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This is an introductory guide to records of deaths of British and Commonwealth servicemen and women in the First and Second World Wars. It will also be useful in researching civilian...
By stretching and reshaping gender norms and roles, World War II and the women who lived it laid solid foundations for the various civil rights movements that would sweep the United States and grip the American imagination in the second half of the 20th century.
Military personnel felt the most connected to home through reading about it in letters. Civilians were encouraged to write their service men and women about even the most basic activities. Daily routines, family news, and local gossip kept the armed forces linked to their communities.
Letters to and from the front lines were a lifeline for service men and women fighting in World War II. Few things mattered more to those serving abroad than getting letters from home,...
Gail Braybon argues that the positive effects of World War I on women have been greatly exaggerated, and I put forward a similar argument in a study of the effects of mobilisation and ‘dilution’ on women in World War I in Britain.
However, you can search the CWGC database for commemoration records of Commonwealth servicemen and women who died during World War Two. Our records include any Commonwealth war casualty who died while in service between the outbreak of war in 1939 and the end of our commemoration period, 31 December 1947.
The letters home to mothers, girlfriends, newlywed wives, and children; the diaries of servicemen and servicewomen; and personal photographs from travels around the world are all examples of the way the Museum’s archives directly describe the experiences of each man, woman, or child at that time.
