New find of WWI records in Wiltshire...

[rbangorreg]

Hi
  The only match I can find is:--
William Frederick Coxhead b:1899 :Maidenhead.
 He is in the 1901 census with father William,Mother Kate, and William F age 1 .
  A quick look at Military records deaths in 1918 gives nothing.
  If you think William Frederick could be your missing William let me know and I shall follow it up.
      Reg.

[Lesanne]

Hi Reg, This is the link to CWGC.   



http://www.cwgc.org/search/SearchResults.aspx?surname=coxhead&initials=w&war=1&yearfrom=1900&yearto=2000&force=Army&nationality=6&send.x=41&send.y=14

[acceber]

So are these records different to the medal cards already available on the national archives website? I hope they are different as this would be a really good resource.

and like Subaru, I am also waiting for ancestry to put the latest batch of WWI pension records up, I have one relative with a C surname, so hopefully in the next batch, the others are S and T so may have to wait a while!

acceber

[seahall]

Hi

I met someone in our Library ( from Peterborough) in the week who assured me that
all the index from A-Z will be on line by the end of the month.

Can't wait either.

Sandy

[rbangorreg]

Hi Lesanne.
                 CWGC works at this end, as I thought (no age or dob) so many young boys joined the armed services giving a false DOB.
  and of cause the services'es would enter dob as unknown (under WW1 wartime circumstances) in the event of death. At least this is what my G-father told me.
   As we don't know the date he joined I shall take a broader look for his DOB.
    Reg.

[IMBER]

I may have this wrong but these records are surely the original medal index cards?  The National Archives copied them and then they were disposed of.  Their value is supposed to be that very occasionally there is some info on the reverse that was not copied by National Archives. If I am correct these are the cards referred to on the National Archives website on the MIC page.

[themonsstar]

The records you are on about are the Medal Index Cards, the National Archives give them to the Westen Front Association about 2/3 years ago.

[Gwil]

The info on the news section of the WFA resolves Lesannes initial posting and confirms what Mack says.

http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/news/
(3rd item down)

I seem to recall reding that you could have a photo of a card for a donation to the WFA but I can't readily  find anything to that effect now.


Gwil

[acceber]

Watching that clip it just looks like the medal cards already available at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/

Maybe ancestry have bought them off the national archives and will put the cards on their site, like they did with freeBMD.

acceber