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Info: UK Soldiers Died In The Great War Ancestry release
« on: Tuesday 18 November 08 23:12 GMT (UK) »
As seems to be its habit recently, Ancestry has just released a great resource without any fanfare. I stumbled across it while searching for something else, so I thought I'd let other know it is available.

UK Soldiers Died In The Great War 1914-1919 can be found here
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=1543

I am getting stuck into it big time!

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Re: UK Soldiers Died In The Great War
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 19 November 08 11:34 GMT (UK) »
It's good because it gives full names rather than just initials in some cases on other databases.  However, theatre of war: Aldershot???  I'm certain my ancestors aren't lying under a field in Aldershot...
~Census Transcriptions, Crown Copyright, National Archives~<br /><br />All Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk<br /><br />Warner (Essex) Edgley (Suffolk) Blake & Sparrowhawk (Lambeth) Hall & Gibson (Co. Durham) Brown (Yorkshire)

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Re: UK Soldiers Died In The Great War
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 19 November 08 11:52 GMT (UK) »
I noticed that there are loads with Aldershot as theater of war. I thought I was missing something and found myself googling it even though I know it's in England.  :-\

I even questioned this as part of a post I made earlier today.

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Re: UK Soldiers Died In The Great War
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 19 November 08 11:58 GMT (UK) »
It looks like a typical stuff up, I checked several soldiers I knew died in France and they all say Aldershot. Perhaps someone will know for certain but wasn't Aldershot the Military Headquarters or something? I think its still a large army base.

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Re: UK Soldiers Died In The Great War
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 19 November 08 12:00 GMT (UK) »
And it's still not transcribed that well - they have Gt Dunmow as Gt Dummon on one of my ancestor's records... ::) 
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Re: UK Soldiers Died In The Great War
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 19 November 08 18:20 GMT (UK) »
My grandfather's place of birth is wrong

Bill
Banks, Beer, Bowes, Castle, Cloak, Coachworth, Dixon, Farr, Golder, Graves, Hicks, Hogbin, Holmans, Marsh, Mummery, Nutting, Pierce, Rouse, Sawyer, Sharp, Snell, Willis: mostly in East Kent.
Ey, Sawyer: London
Evans: Ystradgynlais, Wales
Snell: Snettisham, Norfolk
Knight, Burgess, Ellis: Hampshire
Purdy: Ireland/Canada/Durham/Pennsylvania
McCann: Ireland
Morrow: Pennsylvania
Sparnon: any
Beers, Heath, Conyers, Miller, Russell, Larson, Clark, Sibert, Hopper, Reinhart: USA

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Re: UK Soldiers Died In The Great War
« Reply #6 on: Friday 21 November 08 12:59 GMT (UK) »
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) site http://www.cwgc.org/ also gives information on burial site and/or memorial and covers both world wars.

Dave
Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk   Research:   Clements, Jenkins, Jones, Williams, Davies, Renfrey in Cardiganshire.   Trow, Jones, Clayton in Montgomeryshire.  Renfrey, Datsun, May, Stephens in Cornwall.   Foster in Liverpoo.l   Milliner, Fry, in Gloucestershire.  Mawby, Popple in Rutland.   Kent, Fry, Robinson, Nott, Griffiths in Somerset.   Willis in Oxfordshire.   Fishlock, Snell, Fry, in Wiltshire

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Re: UK Soldiers Died In The Great War
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 22 November 08 01:20 GMT (UK) »
That CWGC site is excellent - I only recently discovered it.
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