Sourced from The National Archives (Reference WO 164) comes a newly digitised collection contains more than one million entries detailing the distribution of military prize money from 1720 to 1899. Find out about the financial rewards granted to soldiers, staff and their families for success in battle.
The collection spans 663 volumes and 1,064,391 records across more than 172,000 high resolution colour images.
Records cover significant wars such as the latter years of the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Waterloo and the Peninsular War, as well as smaller skirmishes.
The records are fully searchable by Name of the Applicant and Soldier, Rank, Regiment, Date, Location, War and Keywords.
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