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the name of the soldier, his rank, his address and whether he was injured or was martyred in the war or whether he had completed his service and had retired. and after years of correspondence and relationship building with the lahore war museum, this man from the punjab heritage association finally managed to gain access to these rare records. it s been a very long process working with the war museum to get these records digitised, just because they are vast, they run to some 26,000 pages which took about four years working with them to get everything cleanly digitised and then brought over to the uk and then we spent about a year transcribing them into the database. the families of british and irish soldiers can easily search public databases of soldiers