Ancestry on The Rest Is History

This episode is sponsored by Ancestry. The First World War doesn't just survive in monuments and history books. It survives in smaller things too — forms, ledgers, service numbers, and addresses. Those are the details that can make family history feel less distant. A surname you recognize, a regiment. The detail that brings a family story into focus. More than 5,000,000 men served in the British Armed Forces during the First World War. And for many British families, that war is just a few generations away. July marks the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. It is a time not just to look at the scale of that story, but the individual lives behind it. Visit ancestry.co.uk and search First World War military records to discover your family's role in the First World War.