Wounded reports WW1

[Jack TT]

I am struggling to find any wounded reports for E Daly no 4364 of the Royal Munster Fusiliers in WW1.
I know he was wounded 3 times but cannot locate any records for these, not sure if they exist, but any advice or help would be welcome.

[Jebber]

That information would be in his service records if they survive, unfortunately almost 70% of WW1 records were lost in a fire in WW2.

Have you looked on Ancestry or Findmypast to see if his records survived?

[MaxD]

Only a proportion of the various medical records were kept after the Great War, explained in the National Archives here:
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C10949
Some of these are on Findmypast but inputting his name and number comes up with no result. (His medal card is there).
Some casualty lists are also on FindMyPast and newspapers are also there but you have to know when he was wounded (catch 22).  The Genealogist web site has (I understand) all the published lists).

MaxD



MaxD

[Jack TT]

Thanks for replies, I know he was wounded in 1915, and 1918. I have details of his 1918 incident, this is from a medical claim that he put into the government for pension purposes. The pension card gives details of the actual wounds, eg GSW, but no further details.
He left the army in 1922, but MOD cannot find his record, even though it should have survived.

[River Tyne Lass]

Local newspapers can often be a good source of information. 

[jds1949]

4364 Daly E Royal Munster Fusiliers was listed on a casualty list issued by the Home Office on 18th October 1915 - no further details I'm afraid.


jds1949

[Jack TT]

Thanks for that, does the actual casualty list have any details of is it just a statement? If so would you know how I would get sight of it

Regards

[jds1949]

Casualty lists generally just list name rank and number - this is no exception - I got it from an online pay site - there may be more information if you can find a local newspaper report. Your local library should have access to the British Newspaper collection which is name searchable - now you have an approximate date to search you might get lucky.

jds1949

[Jack TT]

Thanks again, looks like a trip to the library!