De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918

The amount of information listed varies, but the De Ruvigny's Roll Of Honour records usually include the following information about your ancestor from official sources:

• Name
• Regiment
• Place of death
• Date of death
• A photograph (7,000 of the 26,000 records include an image)

Where the family have been consulted, the records may also contain:

• Over 1,000 words detailing their pre-war life
• The exact circumstances surrounding their death

It should be noted that the length and style of the entries varies considerably. Equally, the photographs of the deceased also differ in quality due to their age and the varying sources the Marquis De Ruvigny obtained them from.

Discover more about De Ruvigny's Roll Of Honour

Originally published in five volumes, Marquis De Ruvigny's Roll Of Honour features biographies of over 26,000 Army, Navy and Air Force men (both officers and other ranks) killed in the Great War. 7,000 of these include photographs.

The majority of the biographies relate to deaths in the early years of the war, although there is some coverage of deaths in 1917 and 1918, too.

The notion of an all-encompassing biographical listing of each serviceman killed in the Great War, at the war's outset, would have seemed perfectly feasible. In the early months a quick, easy victory was expected, and would-be soldiers volunteered in their droves. For many, at this stage, their main fear was not one of death, but that the war would have ended before they saw any action.