EUROPEAN MILITARY INFORMATION
315 Polish Fighter Squadron
Administration of the Prussian Army
Anyone researching the Polish military part of their family that came under British command during WWII, should write to the address listed below. Ask for the Polish and British written records.
The Ministry of Defense
Army Records Center, POLISH SECTION
Bourne Avenue Hayes
Middlesex, England UA3 1RF
PHONE 0181-573-3831 FAX 0181-569-2751
RAF, Personnel Management Agency
RAF Innsworth
Gloucester, GL3 1EZ
England
Tel (01452) 712612 ext; 7916
They will not provide any information "without consent of next of kin." They will provide the names and birth years of next of kin, the maiden name of wife, and birth dates.
The Austrian Cavalry Units in Russia in 1812
Austrian Military Recruitment within Galicia
Entries for Galicia from the recruitment area index kept in the Vienna archives (and cited by Rosemary Chorzempa in her book Polish Roots) are now available in a searchable database online.
Austrio-Hungarian Army Regiments and Uniforms - WW I
Austro-Hungarian Land Forces, 1914-1918
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
DEBT OF HONOUR REGISTER - This Register provides personal and service details and places of commemoration for the 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First or Second World Wars. This list has been placed on this website because they list Eastern Europeans that were Commonwealth soldiers.
Documents in Military History
Hillsdale College’s collection of primary sources for military history. The collection is currently focused primarily on European military history before the twentieth century, but will incorporate the American and non-Western military heritages, as well as contemporary warfare.
The German Cavalry Corps
The German Army of Kaiser Wilhelm II
German Military Records
Hillsdale College - Documents in Military History
Primarily focuses on European military history. They will be adding American and Non-Western military heritages, and contemporary warfare.
The Imperial German Army (pre-1914)
Contains information on Prussian army units in Posen.
Maps of WW I
Medals of Poland
Medals of Prussia
Military Historical Research Institute
(Militaergeschichtliches Forschungsamt)
Potsdam, Germany
Email address: mgfa-potsdam@t-online.de
Military Photographs of Imperial Germany
North Moravia - Military Records
The Order of the Virtuti Militari and its Cavaliers 1792 - 1992
Orders and Decorations of Poland
Polish Air Force Association
Fundacja Stowarzyszenia Lotników Polskich
Mr Aleksander Maisner - President
238-246 King Street
London W6 0RF
tel: 020 8846 9487
Polish Army in France (WW I) Haller's Army Index
Haller's Army Index Database Search
Description of the Army
About the Records Index
How to obtain copies of the records once an entry is found in the index
About the PGSA Library Research Policy
Polish Army Veteran’s Association of America
SWAP (Stowarzyszenie Weteranow Armii Polskiej w Ameryce) - Polish Army Veteran's Association (of America) or PAVA. Persons who fought in Polish units in the First World War, the 1918-21 War and the Second World War who live or lived outside Poland (USA, Canada and France especially) were often members of this Association. Haller's (Blue) Army is closely associated with SWAP because American Veterans who fought under Haller returned to the USA after the war and formed SWAP in 1922.
Their National address is:
Polish Army Veteran's Association of America
National Headquarters,
119 East 15th Street,
New York, NY USA
10003-2392
The Polish Cossacks
Polish Home Army - WW II
Essays and articles on the Polish Home Army. The site also contains addresses and links to other sites, including archives.
Polish Independent Reserve Brigade
A brief history of the Polish International Brigade 1939-1990
Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum
20 Princes Gate
London, SW7 1PT
WW II Polish Exile records are maintained by the Sikorski Institute.
Polish-Lithuanian Armies 1500-1700
*The Polish Army I 1500-1696
*The Polish Army II, Royal Guard, Tartars, Private Armies
*The Polish Army III, German Influence/Infantry Information
*Main Military Conflicts 1500-1700
*The Cossacks and Ottoman Turks, the 1648 Civil War
*Campaign Series 1 (first Polish-Swedish War 1600-1611)
*Campaign Series 2 (Smolensk Campaign against Muscovy 1633-34)
*Greatest Battles 966-1683
Polish Medals and Militaria
Guide to Polish Medals up to 1990, Medals of the Second Republic of Poland 1918-1939, Medals of the Forces in Exile, Medals awarded by England to Poles during WWII, Medals of the People’s Republic of Poland PRL, Other Polish Medals, 1939 Rank Chart, Cross of Merit, Cross of Valor, Order of Polonia Restituta, Order of Virtuti Militari, Collecting Tips, Links to Other Sites
Polish Military Records
WW II
Wojskowy Institut Historyczny
00-910 Warszawa- Rembertow
Poland
PolishRoots’ Bayonne Legion Soldiers
Polish members of the French Legion who fought in France beginning in 1915.
The Polish Soldier - WW II
*2nd Corpus
*2nd Warsaw Armoured Division
*3rd Carpathian Rifle Division
*5th Kresowa Infantry Division
Polish 3rd Carpathian Division
Polish II Corps, British 8th Army
Polish Military Medals and Decorations List
Polish War Graves in Scotland 1940-1949
Russian Military History
Soldiers and Refugees of the Polish Insurrection of 1830-1831
Anyone with POLISH, LITHUANIAN, UKRAINIAN, RUSSIAN or PRUSSIAN ancestry can request a search of the original documents relevant to the Polish, Lithuanian and Russian refugees who had fought in the Polish Revolution of 1830-1831 and who chose to emigrate to America rather that accept the "amnesty" offered by the Czar of Russia.
The information contained in these original archival records includes all or most of the following: a) first and last name, b) religious affiliation, c) age, d) place of birth (city/town/province/country), e) marital status, f) profession and/or military rank and unit before and after the Revolution, g) physical description of each man (build/facial features/color of eyes and hair), h) dates of transport from point of surrender to internment, i) names and numbers of men and route from internment to port of embarkation, j) Ship's names and dates of sailing and manifests listing each refugee and his profession/military rank signed by Ships' Captains and k) "Declaration of Intent" (refugees' statements in their own words regarding their intention to travel to America).
For a small fee you can learn if one of your ancestors was one of these young men who chose liberty in America rather than oppression and near certain execution at home. You can obtain the wealth of information contained in the records about that one individual, including photocopies of the original documentation and an English translation. For more information, contact:
Jeffrey E. Stokes
259 Kinvara Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15237
Soviet Archives Exhibit - Moscow
Uniforms of the Napoleonic Era
Includes galleries of pictures!
Vermissten und Toten Datenbank
Missing and Dead database of over 2 million internments.
Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgraberfursorge
Online database of German soldiers (of whatever ethnic background) killed in WWI and WWII. Click on "Grabersuche online" to get started. Just fill in "Name" (surname) and don't worry about "Vorname" (given name). (Not in English)
Wartime News
Quarterly WWII newsletter written by veterans.
World War I (1914-1918)
WWI Soldiers From Austro-Hungry, and Surrounding Areas, Killed in Action
This is a partial listing. (Not in English)
World War I - Trenches on the Web
This website is an evolving process, new material is added regularly.
World War II (1939-1945)
WWII in Ukraine
World War II - Prisoners of War - Stalag Luft I
WW II RAF Medals (Polish AF units included)
Contact:
Royal Air Force
Personnel Management Agency
RAF Innsworth
Gloucester
GL3 1EZ
United Kingdom
WWW-VL History Index-Military
MILITARY ARCHIVES
Archives Surviving WWII
AUSTRIA
Austrian State War Archives
Austrian War Archives
Austrian State Archives
War Archive (Kriegsarchiv)
A-1030 Wien, Nottendorfergasse 2
Austria
Osterreichisches Staatsarchiv Kriegsarchiv
Sanok & Przemysl 1773 + Military Records
(reprinted with permission of Olga Kaczmar)
1) For research pertaining to persons in our archives, certain data is necessary: family name, first name and year of birth as well as birthplace and/or hometown.
2) The actual personnel records of the Imperial & royal armed forces, age classes 1850-1900, as service sheets, draft lists, and enlistment registers for other ranks, who were at home in areas outside of the present-day Austrian Republic, are not in the custody of the Austrian War Archives, but remained in the successor states of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after the breakdown of the Habsburg Empire in 1918 where most of these records were destroyed.
3) The war casualties records kept in our archives refer to World War I only.
4) The Austrian State Archives do not keep any church-books of civilian parishes, but only from the military parishes of the Imperial & Royal armed forces. There you can find entries of soldiers (marriages and deaths), and of their wives and children (marriages and births) but only if the action took place during service.
The appropriate military districts of Sanok & Przemysl were the following Imperial and Royal infantry regiments:
Sanok District
1817-1830 - Infantry Regiment #15 - 1773-1918 Parish records available
1830-1853 - Infantry Regiment #12 - 1784-1918 Parish records available
1853-1860 - Infantry Regiment #10 - 1776-1918 Parish records available
1860-1867 - Infantry Regiment #77 - 1859-1918 Parish records available
1867-1918 - Infantry Regiment #45 - 1749-1918 Parish records available
Przemsyl District
1817-1830 - Infantry Regiment #39 - 1777-1918 Parish records available
1830-1918 - Infantry Regiment #10 - 1776-1918 Parish records available
If you want, you can check the older service sheets (years of service 1820-1869) and the parish registers of these units:
a) on microfilm at LDS but they have our parish registers recorded up to 1886 only, or
b) we can give you name and address of a researcher in Vienna who could do this research for you for a charge. But the research will be very time-consuming and expensive.
Hofrat Dr. Rainer Egger
Osterreichisches Staatsarchiv Kriegsarchiv
1030 Wien
Nottendorfer Gasse 2
Austria
GERMANY
German Genealogy - Military Archives
German Military Archives
German War Archives
Deutsches Bundesarchiv--Militärarchiv
Wiesenthalstrasse 10
85356 Freiburg
Germany
MORAVIA
Military Archives/Records - Moravia
POLAND
For records prior to 1939:
Centralne Archiwum Wojskowe
00-910 Warszawa-Rembertow
ASG Blok 124
Poland
RUSSIA
Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Voenno-Istoricheskii Arkhiv (RGVIA)
107864 Moskva, 2-aia Baumanskaia, 3.
The Russian State Military History Archive (RGVIA)
Russia 107864 Moscow,
2nd Bauman Street, 3
Phone +7-095-261-20-70
(The RGVIA serves as the centralized archive for military records of the Russian Empire, consolidating the holdings from various pre-revolutionary Russian military archives and other repositories throughout the former Soviet Union. RGVIA retains documentation produced from the activities of highest, central, and local military administration and military agencies of the Russian Empire from the end of the seventeenth century until March of 1918).
Russian State Military Archive
Russia, 125212 Moscow
Adm. Makarov St. 29
(The above archive is for records from 1918-1941)
Central Naval Archive
Russia 188350 Leningradskaia oblast,
Gatchina, Ekaterinverderskii prosp., 2
MISCELLANEOUS
WWI Document Archive
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