Free UK & Australia WW1 Records on Ancestry this Weekend. (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Wednesday, November 09, 2016, 19:11 (2937 days ago) @ Jefff

As in the past, this coming Rememberance Weekend will see free access to various WW1 Military records c/o the "Fold 3" website, which appears to be the name of a new sister website to Ancestry.co.uk. As in previous offers, new users will only need to register with name and email address, no charge or request for payment card details should be required.
I do hope this is the case, altho' this year's other changes to the Ancestry "business plan" maybe suggests we proceed with a degree of caution - I'm a paid subscriber to Ancestry and today's email is the first I've heard of their new "Fold 3" site. The site contains their new "British Commonweath Military Collection", which includes the following databases;

Australia WWI Service Records
British Army Lists
British Army WWI Service Records
Distinguished Conduct Medal Citations
Military Books
U.K. Navy Lists
British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards
Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Admission & Discharge Records
Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Soldier Service Record
Royal Hospital Kilmainham Pensioner Records (Ireland)
U.K. WWI War Diaries (France, Belgium, and Germany)
U.K. WWI War Diaries (Gallipoli-Dardanelles)

The free access period is the "3 days of Friday 11th - Sunday 13th November", probably starting from midnite GMT Thursday until midnite Sunday.

Use this link to the Fold 3 site.
https://go.fold3.com/commonwealth/?o_xid=74228&o_lid=74228&o_sch=Email+Campaigns

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them".

This is just one verse of a poem by Laurence Binyon first published just two months into the Great War....
http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-people/48-brothers-arms/81-going-down-...