We can help you find out more about individual soldiers who served with the regiment. The Green Howards Museum offers a research service through which we can interrogate the archives and compile the results for you.
You can make a research application here: https://greenhowards.org.uk/research-application/
What kind of information does the museum hold?
We look after a wealth of official and unofficial documents, which often contain unique information about individuals. For some periods of the regiment’s history we also have enlistment registers, records of births and marriages, prisoner of war records and punishment books.
Personal memoirs, diaries and letters also exist from most periods. We access official war diaries for each battalion of the Green Howards during the First and Second World Wars. The regimental gazette is also a great source of information.
Our extensive photograph collection is also a great resource for images of named individuals, and to give a feel for what military life was like during a particular period.
Service records
Individual records of service (ROS) are held by the National Archives (TNA) or the Ministry of Defence (MoD), under their data protection responsibilities. These give really useful information about a soldier’s army career and unlock the story of their service.
Some records have already been made available across a range of accessible archives, but not all. As part of your free research assessment, we will check whether a ROS is available. If it is not already available, we will advise on whether to apply to the National Archives or the Ministry of Defence.
Individual research and interpretation sessions
If you would like to visit the museum to do research yourself, please contact [email protected] to book an appointment. Please be aware that you’ll need to provide information about who or what you are researching, so that we can assess whether our records can provide answers. If we can provide access digitally, we will do so.
If you would like the assistance of our Researcher during your visit, or at a later date to help you understand what you have found, or what we have found for you as part of the Research Service, this can be arranged. It is a chargeable service of £40, to be paid on the day of your visit.