William Thomas DALE, born 1890 in Gosforth

[Shiny1]

Thanks a lot JenB,

I logged back in and tried a few times but just kept getting the same 19 people, then on one of the attempts I decided to try a standard search (ie not just looking at the military records) but still just with his name and exact match. I got thousands of possibles so clicked on the military records filter on the left of the screen and suddenly he was there in the list.

I have no idea why, I don't think I've done anything hugely different.

I've downloaded the record now, it looks great. I've only had a quick look but his kids are listed on there so it is definitely him, there seems to be a lot of information about him on there so thank you all for all your help.

Michael

[Tickettyboo]

I use the Card Catalogue a lot to get directly to the database I want to search.
Home Page: Search (in the menu across the top, in words),
from the list that pops up click Card catalogue.
Make sure that only records from Uk & Ireland is TICKED
Menu on left choose Military
That brings up a list on the right hand side and British Army WW1 Service records, 1914-1920 is first on the list.

If its a database I am going to use a lot, I copy the url when the search page opens and add it to My Quick links on the homepage. That way I can get to it with one click in the future.

Its not just you, the website searches don't always make life easy, chuck in mistranscriptions/ transcribers not adding in things like birthplaces and birth years consistently etc etc really doesn't help.
 
Having said that the subscription sites while they all have their individual faults / difficulties are still amazing resources but present a constant learning/relearning curve to get to what you want :-)

Boo