FindMyPast new burnt records?

[ptdrifter]

Has anyone looked at the "new" WW1 records on FindMyPast? Are they worth seeing?
I have found they have details for my Grand Uncle's service records from WO363, which is not on Ancestry, and was wondering if it was worth paying for a months subs to see them.

Thanks

[Jebber]

This is an extract  from Lost Cousins newsletter about the Army records on FindMyPast.

 Their version of the collection   includes nearly 600,000 additional names. Some were taken from casualty lists, but there were also complete personnel files which had never been published online before

[ptdrifter]

Thanks Jebber
may be worth a look then

[Old Bristolian]

I've found a whole service record that I hadn't found elsewhere. Whether it's new or badly indexed elsewhere I couldn't say

Steve

[LizzieW]

I haven't found my g.uncle's missing record amongst this new set, so I guess his was well and truly burned.

[dawnsh]

I know Essex libraries offer free in-house access to Ancestry, but check to see if they also have FindMyPast at the Essex Record Office.

If you have access to libraries in another area, try there as well.

Dawn

[Billiegirl]

I found my grandfather in FindMyPast's Royal Artillery Attestations of 1919, when he re-joined after WW1. This helped me to confirm that the Medal Card I had previously got off Ancestry was actually his, as the 1919 docs named family members and gave his address.

Very useful if like me, you don't have his service papers. If you think your relative was in the Artillery in WW1, its worth checking FindMyPast, as its surprising how many artillery men signed up again post war.

[Deirdre784]

I haven't found my g.uncle's missing record amongst this new set, so I guess his was well and truly burned.

I can't find either of my grandfathers' records either, nor several other ancestors   Such a shame as they do contain some useful and amazing info. 

[LizzieW]

Quote from: LizzieW on Yesterday at 23:48

    I haven't found my g.uncle's missing record amongst this new set, so I guess his was well and truly burned.

I can't find either of my grandfathers' records either, nor several other ancestors   Such a shame as they do contain some useful and amazing info.

My g.uncle was killed in 1917 and, annoyingly, his brother's (my grandfather) records (he was invalided out of the army prior to 1914) and his elder brother's records have survived.  I wanted to know all about the g.uncle who was killed and the army records were the only chance I had to find out what happened to him from 1906 when, as an orphan, he signed up and 1917 when he was killed.  I never knew my grandfather, nor my other g.uncle and as my grandfather told everyone he was an orphan without siblings, the only info anyone has is what I've managed to find out.