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Offline Baird

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Re: Researching WW1 deaths
« Reply #9 on: Friday 05 October 18 10:09 BST (UK) »
I can assist if either of your relatives served in the 2nd Seaforth Highlanders

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Rutherglen;Baird/Adair/Ferguson/Reid
Strathaven;Shearer , Orr
Beith;Steel 
Glasgow;Donnelly,McSorley,Burns
County Tyrone;McSorley
Eaglesham;Paton
 All;McAlonan and variants 
Sligo;Burns 
2nd. bat Seaforth Highlanders 1914-16.
2nd. bat. KOSB 1914-18.
1/8th. Bat. Cameronians 1914-15
5th. Bat. Cameronians 1914-17
1st. Bat. Scots Guards 1914-15
HMS Biarritz 1915-16
K Class Submarines  K10 and K11

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Re: Researching WW1 deaths
« Reply #10 on: Friday 05 October 18 15:59 BST (UK) »
You could also try local newspapers - sometimes they reported deaths in more detail. Ours had a whole page every week listing those killed, wounded, missing etc. Sometimes all you get is a name in  a list, but other times you can get a whole paragraph about the soldier.
Website: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~towcesterfamilies/genealogy/
Towcester - anything, any time
Cheshire - Lambert, Houghland, Birtwisle
Liverpool - Platt, Cunningham, Ditton
London - Notley, Elsom, Billett
Oxfordshire - Hitchcock, Smith, Leonard, Taunt
Durham - Hepburn, Eltringham
Berwickshire - Guthrie, Crawford
Somerset - Taylor (Bath)
Gloucestershire - Verrinder, Colborn
Dorset - Westlake

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Re: Researching WW1 deaths
« Reply #11 on: Friday 05 October 18 16:55 BST (UK) »
Thanks to everyone for their help and advice. 
I have acted on all of your recommendations and have also been helped "off line" with great results.

Many thanks