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    ROYAL ARTILLERY TRACER CARDS

    Apr 07, 2020 3 minutes

    The release of the first batches of Second World War Royal Artillery tracer cards on ancestry.co.uk (rather than Ancestry’s military records website fold3.com) at bit.ly/ anc-tracer provides a possible means of tracing an artillery soldier’s wartime career if you’ve no access to his service record.

    ‘The cards provide a means of tracing a soldier’s wartime career’

    From the 1870s the War Office began centralising regimental records in regional record offices for infantry regiments and in central offices for corps like

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