Has Your Family Got Its Own War Horse Story?

Do you have a heroic horsey tale to tell? If so, now is your chance to take part in a new competition which could see your family story become part of a national exhibition!

Photographs from visitors' family histories

Ancestry.co.uk and the National Army Museum have teamed up to offer an exclusive opportunity for you to share your family history and for one lucky winner to see theirs displayed in the Museum’s biggest exhibition, 'War Horse: Fact & Fiction'.

Inspired by the remarkable tales of our visitors, we’re calling for extraordinary stories revealing your family’s own wartime experiences of working with horses and mules on farms or the front line.

One story will be chosen to undergo a professional investigation from the 'War Horse: Fact & Fiction' curatorial team and then developed into a display at the National Army Museum’s exhibition, which is due to run until August 2012.

For more competition details, including how to submit your story and full terms and conditions, please visit www.ancestry.co.uk/warhorse. The deadline for entries is Friday 9 March 2012.

'War Horse: Fact & Fiction' is the latest exhibition at the National Army Museum, exploring the real-life stories which inspired the hugely popular 'War Horse' novel. It’s a free, dynamic and interactive exhibition for all the family with exciting material from Michael Morpurgo, the National Theatre and Disney.

For more information about the National Army Museum’s 'War Horse: Fact & Fiction' exhibition, please visit: www.nam.ac.uk/warhorse

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Notes to editors

National Army Museum

The National Army Museum explores the impact of the British Army on the story of Britain, Europe and the world; how Britain’s past has helped to shape our present and our future and how the actions of a few can affect the futures of many.

The National Army Museum was established by Royal Charter to tell the story of the Land Forces of the Crown wherever they were raised. Opened by the Queen in 1960, it moved to its current site in Chelsea in 1971.

Ancestry.co.uk

Officially the UK’s favourite family history website, Ancestry.co.uk contains more than 930 million records in collections including the most comprehensive online set of England, Wales and Scotland Censuses from 1841 to 1901, the fully searchable England and Wales Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes, the World War One British Army Service and Pension records, UK Parish Records and the British Phone Books.

Ancestry.co.uk was launched in May 2002 and belongs to the global network of Ancestry.com websites, which host seven billion records. To date more than 29 million family trees have been created and 3 billion profiles and 80 million photographs and stories uploaded. (Figures current as of December, 2011)