De Ruvignys Roll of Honour

[centurian]

How did some people get mentioned on the De Ruvigny's Roll of honour ? and most did not?

[MaxD]

Here is the Long Long Trail explanation http://www.1914-1918.net/soldiers/nationalrolls.html  The essential thing is that it was a private publication as the government wasn't going to do it and, as LLT says, people who wanted their loved ones commemorated in what initially was to be two volumes (!) applied to the Marquis de Ruvigny (at Buckingham Street London  - newspaper advert 1915).  If you have access to FindMyPast newspapers, lots of newspapers adverts encouraging people to apply and descriptions of the project.  The grand project ran out of steam eventually with some 27000 names only recorded.

maxD