First World War Archive Shared Online by Museum

The Royal Air Force Museum, has today launched a new website, casualtyforms.org, which enables online visitors to explore the Casualty Forms of officers of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force who served on the Western Front and in the Middle East during the First World War.

I had a search of the Casualty Forms and found one of my Peer relatives - Harold Emerson Peer, illegitimate son of Alberta Peer. He was born in 1894 in Elgin County Ontario Canada and I never knew what happened to him. I used the Advanced Search with Peer as the surname and Canadian in the Regiment field to find any Canadians.

Funding was secured through Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and The National Lottery Heritage Fund to conserve the collection. After digitisation, over a hundred of the Museum’s dedicated, online volunteers transcribed the information in the forms, making them available to search.

The RAF Museum also holds digitised First World War Casualty Cards at rafmuseumstoryvault.com