Join us for a family history military masterclass with military expert and historian Graham Bandy.
🎖️ Discover your ancestors’ military stories
The two-part masterclass will give you the knowledge to trace your British Armed Forces ancestors. Find out about the most useful records, how to decipher and identify documents, medals, badges and old photographs, and how to put your ancestor’s military experiences in context.
📅 4 & 11 November 2025 | 🕖 7 to 9pm | 💻 Live on Zoom
🎟️ BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW£50 standard | £40 for Family Tree Plus members
🪖 What You’ll Learn
Join military historian and author Graham Bandy for a two-part online masterclass revealing how to trace your ancestors’ service across the British Army, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force.
- Explore records from 1760 to 1960 across all three branches of the Armed Forces.
- Learn how to decode original military records and interpret regimental details.
- Discover how to identify uniforms, badges, and medals from old photos.
- Get expert guidance on avoiding common research mistakes.
🎯 Who is this masterclass for?
This course is ideal for family historians who want to understand the lives of their military ancestors — from the Napoleonic Wars through to the Cold War era.
- Perfect for those tracing soldiers, sailors, or airmen between 1760–1960
- Ideal for anyone struggling to read or locate military records and service files
- Great for researchers seeking to add colour and accuracy to family stories
Across two evenings, you’ll gain practical skills, resources, and insights to make confident progress with your research — and enjoy Graham’s lively, expert storytelling along the way!
Ticket details
Standard ticket: £50
Family Tree Plus members: £40
Includes digital edition of Tracing Your Military Ancestors workbook
Ticket holders will also receive a digital edition of the brand new Trace Your Military Ancestors workbook, a 52-page in-depth guide to researching your ancestors’ war years, produced in association with leading family history subscription service Findmypast.
Join Family Tree Plus for just £5 — you’ll immediately save £10 on your booking, plus enjoy exclusive access to hundreds of genealogy resources, videos, and webinars.
The online learning sessions will last up to 2 hours: with a presentation, followed by time for questions. Each session will be recorded for you to watch in your own time.
About the speaker: Graham Bandy
Graham has been collecting militaria since he was a small child, when he started pestering the aged great-uncles from WW1 and 2 for badges and ephemera.
He went on to serve in 2nd bn The Royal Anglian Regiment, later being commissioned as a Nursing Officer in QARANC, where he Nursed through the end of the former Yugoslavia crisis, Gulf War 2 and most of Afghanistan.
Graham specialises in identifying military photos, and has an extensive WW1 and WW2 medical living history collection, which has led to several TV appearances, including Who Do You Think You Are?
Graham now spends his time writing books and helping people with their military “brick walls”. Graham lives with his wife in a small village in East Sussex, where they are slowing drowning under his military artefacts, archives… and Warhammer.
Ready to uncover your family’s military past?
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