Beginning this week, genealogists and other interested individuals are now able to view online the scanned images of original death records (indexes) of more than a million British soldiers killed in conflicts from the Boer War to the Korean War.

The records, provided by Britain's General Register Office (GRO), are part of a database which includes several million documents gathered by officials while overseas. Other records included in this database include indexes for a variety of military births and marriages, as well as other births recorded overseas (i.e. for British citizens not in Britain).

The database is one of several available at the pay-per-view genealogy subscription site, 1837online.com. This is a site I have used personally to search one of their other databases, the civil registration records of England and Wales. It is a great site if you know what you're looking for, but since you essentially have to browse by surname, rather than search, you can end up spending a lot of money if you have a common surname (like Powell) and don't have a specific idea of the names and dates for which you are hunting.