Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/British military history task force

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Welcome to the British military history task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below.

The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here.

Scope
This task force includes the military history of the United Kingdom, as well as the military histories of its component states (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) in the period before its formation. It also covers earlier military affairs in the same location, such as Roman Britain and the Anglo-Saxon principalities.

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Participants
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 * 1)  (will research anything)
 * 2)  (Royal Navy, British Army, British Empire)
 * 3)  (Royal Navy, British Army)
 * 4)  (Interested in Royal Regiment of Artillery History)
 * 5)  (I'll help with the Civil Wars, as time permits.)
 * 6)  (WW2 North West Europe 1944-45 and Mediterranean and Middle East theatre)
 * 7)  (Eighteenth century RN articles)
 * 8)  Notable British participants (including Victoria Cross recipients) in the Indian Mutiny 1857-59
 * 9)  (WW1 (Somme) and WW2 (Mediterranean))
 * 10)  (RAF Bases, World War I, World War II, Cold War)
 * 11)  (units, biographies, orders of battle, minor fixes and additions)
 * 12)  (Royal Air Force)
 * 13)  (17th Century - 20th Century land conflicts)
 * 14)  (WWI, WWII, Imperial Conflicts)
 * 15)  (English Civil War, War of 1812, Revolutionary/Napoleonic Wars, Victorian Era, WW2 South-East Asian theatre)
 * 16)  (british military history, cavalry armour ww2)
 * 1)  (WWI, WWII, Imperial Conflicts)
 * 2)  (English Civil War, War of 1812, Revolutionary/Napoleonic Wars, Victorian Era, WW2 South-East Asian theatre)
 * 3)  (british military history, cavalry armour ww2)
 * 1)  (british military history, cavalry armour ww2)


 * 1)  (WW2 and WW1)
 * 2)  (WW2 mostly, though I'm similarly ignorant about a number of 20th c. wars)
 * 3)  (Creating British formation/regiments/squadrons articles that are from military.wikia and onto here, grammar, copyedit)
 * 4)  (Royal Air Force: mainly post-WW2, esp. Thor missiles in Britain, 1959-63)
 * 5)  (Naval history, especially Royal Navy 19th and 20th Centuries)
 * 6)  (Royal Air Force and aviation)
 * 1)  (Royal Air Force and aviation)


 * 1)  (I focus on the Napoleonic Wars (Peninsular Wars and Naval Warfare in Napoleonic Times mainly)
 * 1)  (I focus on the Napoleonic Wars (Peninsular Wars and Naval Warfare in Napoleonic Times mainly)


 * 1)  (Bomber Command WW2 specialist)
 * 2)  (doing research on the Royal Navy and nautical culture during the 17th and 18th centuries)
 * 3)  (British Army units and anything else that needs to be done)
 * 4)  (the Royal Navy in the 20th century)
 * 5)  (Napoleonic Wars, 18th century, intelligence)
 * 1)  (Napoleonic Wars, 18th century, intelligence)


 * 1)  (All articles related to the VC, (recipients, lists, etc) Royal Navy related articles)

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Resources

 * UK Ministry of Defence History Section
 * Imperial War Museum Collections
 * Regiments.org
 * Britain's Small Wars
 * First World War.com
 * Britishempire.co.uk - Armed Forces
 * Order of Battle Site
 * British Unit Histories WWII
 * HyperWar British Official Histories
 * search the London Gazette. You should be able to find the official record of commissioning and promotion for all officers in British service from 1665 on, + some info on secondment to non-regimental duties (e.g. staff appointments), official letters and despatches (in earlier conflicts, these are often published more or less contemporaneously, in the case of WWII, official despatches weren't published until the late 1940s).  Prior to approx 1997 the pdfs have been created by scanning the original paper copies, and then using OCR to generate searchable text, so you're not 100% guaranteed to find what you're looking for.  It's worth trying various combinations of full name, initials + surname, and for more recent issues, service number.  LondonGazette can be used to provide consistent formatting, and ease future maintenance of references.
 * Documents online at The National Archives has various categories of utility. To see the full original document a fee is required, but often the description returns useful information.
 * British Journal for Military History - Open access academic journal. Also covers the militaries of the British Empire/Commonwealth countries.
 * Source Documents Relating to the Wars of Edward III