What regiment did my ancestor serve in- Soldiers?

RECORDS FOR FINDING SOLDIERS' REGIMENT NAME OR NUMBER


 * 1) Home Sources: especially medals and awards, discharge papers, diaries and journals, personal knowledge, pictures - especially of soldiers in full military dress, old letters, etc.
 * 2) Civil Registration of Births, Marriages, and Deaths: July 1837-present; certificates usually give regiment name or number and/or rank.
 * 3) Census Records: 1841-1911; find the soldier and/or family; search other census records; often gives the regiment name or number of soldier (or officer)
 * 4) Regimental Registers of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, burials of soldiers and their families: 1761-1924; The National Archives &amp; FHL has birth indexes.
 * 5) Chaplain Returns of baptisms, marriages, burials at stations abroad: 1796-1880; The National Archives &amp; FHL has films.
 * 6) Beckett's Index of Chelsea Pensioners: 1806-1838; WO 120, FHL has films
 * 7) Widows' Pensions - Compassionate &amp; Miscellaneous Papers, Registers &amp; Indexes: W.O. 24, pieces #3108-3125; 1748-1851.
 * 8) Militia Attestation Returns: W.O. 96 - all; whole military, 1806-1915, alphabetically arranged.
 * 9) Judge Advocate General's Office; Courts Martial; confirmed at Home &amp; Abroad: W.O. 93, indexes (to W.O. 91 &amp; 92 Court Martial records); 1650-1922.
 * 10) Soldiers' Documents: 1760-1913; W.O. 97; (FHL has 1760-1854 only); alphabetically arranged for each of the major attachments and corps.
 * 11) Medals &amp; Awards; Meritorious Service Awards: 1846-1923; W.O. 101, pieces 1-7; indexed (not comprehensive for the whole army).
 * 12) Soldiers' documents (&amp; various) Regiments:1760-1882; W.O. 97 (mostly alphabetical); FHL has pieces #1-1279 only, 1760-1854; arranged alphabetically for whole army
 * 13) Regimental Registers of Pensioners: 1717-1857; W.O. 120