The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

[yellowfurbaby]

Hi all, I am a newbie here. I have been researching my family tree and have been fasinated to learn that I have a great great uncle who was killed in WW1. I have been on CWGC and found this link.

http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=802881

So now I know a little more about him. How do I find out more. Is it possible to get access to medical records or other information? I am sure there must be more info than where the poor chap is buried : (

Thanks all for your help

[harribobs]

afternoon furbaby ( the name makes me smile)

well, you have actually got a quite a lot of information off the CWGC site already, compared to a usual entry, it's positively overflowing!

i can add a bit more for you, he was born and enlisted in Bolton, he was killed in action at the battle of the somme, he doesn't have a known grave, his body was either never recovered or was discovered with no ID or the site of his grave was lost as fighting continued over it.

he belonged to a territorial battalion, so he may well have been a part time soldier prior to the war.

60% of WW1 soldiers records were destroyed in the blitz in  the second world war, the remainder are kept at the national archives in Kew

[yellowfurbaby]

Thanks for much for your reply.
Oh so he has no grave? How did you find that out and how did you know about him dying in the battle of the Somme? What am I missing from the CWGC link I posted that you have spotted. I am new to this you see and it is amazing.

[tisgrannie]

Did you have the 1901 census info on the McGreavy family?
living at Reservoir St
hoping its the same family.
Father John aged 36 born Wigan A Labourer Boilermaker
Mother Annetta 30 born in Bolton
Mary 10
Edward 9
John 7
George 3
Sister difficult to read name 1
regards
tisgrannie

[harribobs]

there's no real secret, the theipval memorial is a memorial to the missing on the somme battlefield, it bears the names of the 72,000 men (of the UK and SA) who have no known grave.  the battle of the somme which started on the 1st July 1916 and went on until november, just by looking at the date of his death tells you he was killed there

On the 9th Aug 1916, the 1/5th LNLs as part of the 55th Division were attacking Guillemont, starting at 4.20am, they were stopped by the wire and heavy maching gun fire, and suffered severe casualties

[harribobs]

tisgrannie can post you a great picture of the Theipval monument

[tisgrannie]

I can try harribob.

[yellowfurbaby]

You are all so helpful on here

tisgrannie yes i have got access to the census and so yes I have found that info you posted. The name you cannot read of the sister is Cecilia and that is the line I have from. Cecilias brother John was killed in WW1 and I am her Great Granddaughter. She only died in 1999 just a months short of her 100th birthday. She was an amazing lady!!

[tisgrannie]

terrific! What an age. I hope you got lots of info from you grt gran. I am at the stage where I wish I had asked so much.
kind regards
tisgrannie