Hospital records

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Should have said he was born in Airdrie Lanarkshire ....

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Thanks Phil and don't worry about using this thread Poll. Saves on space if anything else.

Is there any non computer way of seeing the war diaries if WO 95/2857 has not yet been digitalised?

Also Poll you mentioned some war diaries from TNA - what is TNA?

Also are there other war diaries that have been digitalised? and if so where can I go online to see them, so they can give me an idea of one looks and reads like.

Jonathan

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Johnathan,

The war diaries are held at The National Archives at Kew. They are viewable there unless they have produced a digital copy, which at the moment costs £3-50 to download. They are an absolute bargain (providing you want it of course)

Due to copyright, it's hard to find a British one, in it's original state, online. The Canadian one's however, are all available online for free. Purely picked at random, I've put the link to the diary for the 2nd Canadian Machine Gun Battalion below. It's a bit atypical, in that a lot of the British one's are hand written and extremely hard to read, but the format is pretty much the same. Some include maps etc as well.

 http://www.rootschat.com/links/09lu/

Phil

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Hi Jonathan ..
 As you've probably guessed now TNA  The National Archives  I  Think you may be interested in this site too..
http://www.1914-1918.net/Diaries/diaries.htm

Good luck with your research
... Poll 
and thanks for letting me hijack your thread... a  bit 

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It all makes for very interesting reading. I could read those daires all day.

Thanks

Jonathan