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Armed Forces Resources / War Office Records Lost in 1940 Fire
« on: Monday 08 March 10 20:53 GMT (UK)  »
A full inventory of all the records lost in the 1940 fire caused by bombing. The best known being the service records of Other Ranks from the Great War.


http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Records_destroyed_at_the_Army_Records_Centre%2C_Arnside_Street%2C_London_as_a_result_of_bombing_on_8_September_1940

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The Common Room / Southwark Military Hospital 1915-19 - Relatives Wanted
« on: Friday 05 March 10 21:06 GMT (UK)  »
In one of those weird strokes of luck, I stumbled across a newpaper article about an old hospital which no longer meets modern requirements but has been restored instead of being bulldozed. I've posted a brief summary here


http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,442033.0.html

If anyone has a relative who was in this hospital, please look at the original post.

Glen

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World War One / Southwark Military Hospital 1915-19 - Relatives Wanted
« on: Friday 05 March 10 20:55 GMT (UK)  »
A couple of days ago I saw a brief 2 paragraph story in the free evening paper on the train home about a re-dedication of Dulwich Community Hospital after its restoration and I discovered that between 1915-1919 it was known as Southwark Military Hospital. It had 820 beds and treated 14,000 men of which 119 died.
The ceremony is being held at 11AM (nice touch) on Friday the 19th of March  but the organisers are having trouble tracing relatives of the 119 men who died. This link shows the hospital as it was and lists the 119 men shows the hospital how it was in the War and lists the 119 men

http://www.southwarkpct.nhs.uk/documents/5633.pdf

so if you are related or know anyone who is, please contact either myself or the main organiser John Knightly on 020 3299 6016 or by email at john[dot]knightly[at]southwarkpct.nhs.uk

I’ll be posting a link in the Common Room as well.

It looks like they could no longer run it as a modern hospital but went for preservation and not demolition http://www.southwarkpct.nhs.uk/documents/5632.pdf


 
Glen

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Armed Forces / Death in Service - Records Destroyed
« on: Monday 22 February 10 23:30 GMT (UK)  »
We are used to reading and hearing that service records for men who died in service in the 19th century were routinely destroyed 20 years after their death if they died in service. Does anyone know when the practice stopped?

It occurred to me over the weekend that all the surviving UK WW1 records I've seen are for men who survived the war so I was wondering if the records were still being destroyed between the wars. If you look at the official inventory of what was destroyed in the bombing - http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Records_destroyed_at_the_Army_Records_Centre%2C_Arnside_Street%2C_London_as_a_result_of_bombing_on_8_September_1940 - there is only a reference to 6.5 millions records while over 8 million men were mobilised.

Is it possible?

Glen

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Australia / Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Cemetery Opening
« on: Monday 25 January 10 22:11 GMT (UK)  »
Hello All

As you might have heard, the new cemetery at Fromelles is being opened this weekend and I'll be going over for a few days. I'll be visiting a few cemeteries as well so if you want any photos from VC Corner, Rue Petillon or Rue De Bois cemeteries, please let me know.


Glen

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World War One / RAF Officers Records Online
« on: Saturday 14 November 09 17:37 GMT (UK)  »
The NA has just released 99,000 service records from the TAF at Documents Online



http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/385.htm?WT.hp=nf-39539


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World War One / More WW1 Service Records Online
« on: Wednesday 04 November 09 23:47 GMT (UK)  »
I've just discovered that A*y has now put more records after N online. A quick search on Smith , Wilson and Young on the WW1 Service records returns a lot of names.

Good news and happy researcing.

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World War One / C E W Bean's Personal Notes
« on: Thursday 15 October 09 23:41 BST (UK)  »
This looks like anamazing resource. It took Bean 24 years to write up the Official Histories based on these papers.



Charles Edward Woodrow Bean was Australia’s official war correspondent during the First World War and was later appointed official historian for that conflict. The personal records created by Bean in the course of those appointments now form part of the official records series: AWM38 Official History, 1914–18 War: Records of C.E.W. Bean, Official Historian. The Memorial has digitised 286 volumes of diaries, notebooks, and folders kept by Bean during and after the war and used by him to write the official history of the First World War.

http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/war_diaries/cew_bean/


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World War One / More Service Records Online Soon?
« on: Tuesday 18 August 09 21:38 BST (UK)  »
I was just looking through the changes TNA are proposing at Kew and one of them is to remove the larger microflm sets such as the censuses and WW1 service records where there is a "suitable online equivalent"

(Q15 here http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/changes-general-info.htm )

which would imply that the service records must be available online first. They hope to have most of the changes implemented by March  so perhaps we won't have to wait much longer. Maybe we'll get all the MICs too  :o

Other good news is that the WO 364 "pension" files are being re-indexed to include a regiment which will make life a lot easier.

More details of the proposed changes here

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/changes-general-info.htm

Glen

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