military records
Soldier's official papers
Military records are official documents pertaining to a person's service in the armed forces.
They typically include enlistment papers, service history, discharge status, medical records, and commendations or disciplinary actions.
He requested his grandfather's military records from the National Archives.
These records serve administrative, legal, and genealogical purposes.
- casualty listsRecords of war's dead
- missing in actionCombat status, fate unknown
- next of kinNearest living family members
- disciplinary actionsPenalties for policy violations
- battle mapsCombat terrain diagrams
war diaries · chain of command · discharge papers · honorable discharge · service medals · oral histories · war memorials · declassified documents · mission reports · rules of engagement · psychological assessments · active duty · tour of duty · tactical plans · personnel files · legal appeals · diaries · document
- military recordsafter action report, personnel files, enlistment papers, casualty lists, discharge papers
- historical recordsdiary, census record, annual reviews, letter, census data
- history resourceschronicles, archives, timelines, documentaries, narratives
- keepsakesmementos, memento, keepsake, keepsakes, heirlooms
- life recordsautobiography, biography, birth certificate, death certificate, genealogy
- recordsworld record, record, Guinness, documents, album
military recordspersonal memoirs
Self-written life narrative
oral history · family stories · personal correspondence · hearsay