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Offline Forfarian

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Re: Can I find someone whose name I don't know?
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 21 November 17 10:36 GMT (UK) »
Many thanks, KGarrad, that is much better! I tried to do the same search (major, Royal Scots, WW1) but it came up with no results. No idea why!
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Re: Can I find someone whose name I don't know?
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 21 November 17 13:26 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Forfarian on Tuesday 21 November 17 10:36 GMT (UK)
Many thanks, KGarrad, that is much better! I tried to do the same search (major, Royal Scots, WW1) but it came up with no results. No idea why!

I think omitting WW1 as there's the column on left to tick years, which I hadn't done of course  ::)

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Re: Can I find someone whose name I don't know?
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 21 November 17 15:23 GMT (UK) »
I did the search again, just to prove to myself what I had done.
Same results: 23 records found ;D
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Re: Can I find someone whose name I don't know?
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 21 November 17 17:20 GMT (UK) »
Bizarre. That's exactly the search I did.

I re-ran it just now, and again got no results. Then I cleared it and did it again and got 23 results.

What did we do to waste time before we had computers?  ;)

Many thanks for your help.
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Re: Can I find someone whose name I don't know?
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 21 November 17 20:32 GMT (UK) »
Did you know that you can export your search results to a .csv file (for reading in Excel)?
I found it easier to read that way - but then I work with Excel every day! ;D
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Re: Can I find someone whose name I don't know?
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 21 November 17 20:39 GMT (UK) »
I did know that in relation to various other sites, but I've never had occasion to do so with CWGC. Thank you for the tip, which I shall bear in mind.
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Re: Can I find someone whose name I don't know?
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 22 November 17 19:27 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: KGarrad on Monday 20 November 17 22:39 GMT (UK)
23 x Majors
9 x Lt. Colonel
109 x Captains
153 x Lieutenant
6 x 2nd Lieutenant

and probably some ranks I have missed?
I see that the thread has concentrated on Majors - but there is something seriously wrong with these figures - 2nd Lieutenant was probably the most dangerous rank in the army, there must have been many more casuatlies on that rank. When I did the search I found 282.
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Re: Can I find someone whose name I don't know?
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 22 November 17 21:49 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: newburychap on Wednesday 22 November 17 19:27 GMT (UK)
Quote from: KGarrad on Monday 20 November 17 22:39 GMT (UK)
23 x Majors
9 x Lt. Colonel
109 x Captains
153 x Lieutenant
6 x 2nd Lieutenant

and probably some ranks I have missed?
I see that the thread has concentrated on Majors - but there is something seriously wrong with these figures - 2nd Lieutenant was probably the most dangerous rank in the army, there must have been many more casuatlies on that rank. When I did the search I found 282.

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Quote from: Forfarian on Tuesday 21 November 17 08:19 GMT (UK)

My friend thinks the man in question was a Major but a search on CWGC didn't turn up any majors in the Royal Scots.

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