Menin Gate

[genjen]

I am trying to find where to find my great uncle's name on the Menin Gate Memorial and have come to the conclusion that this will be the quickest way of going about it.

Can anyone give me a link which will come up with a name search as none of the sites I have tried are coming up with the goods.

The name I am looking for is Ernest Cooper Smith who died November 1914, Ypres. Not sure which regiment he was with but it would have most likely been a Durham or Northumberland one.

Any suggestions more than welcome as I hope to visit the Ypres area in a couple of weeks time and would love to find the right place.


Ta,

Jen

[Ken MacLean]

Jen,

His CWGC record shows him on Panels 8 and 12.

http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=917290

The reason for his name appearing on two panels as explained by CWGC:

"Panel Numbers quoted at the end of each entry relate to the panels dedicated to the Regiment with which the casualty served. In some instances, where a casualty is recorded as attached to another Regiment, his name may appear within their Regimental Panels. "

[genjen]

Thank you so much, that is wonderful and means I can go and find him quite easily.

Cheers,

Jen

[atom12]

Hi Jen

Looking at Ernest's Soldier's Died in the Great War entry, the only other information on there is that Ernest was born in Middlesbrough and he also enlisted in Middlesbrough.

It also states "Died".  Thus he was neither killed in action or died of wounds.  Though men would die of fevers, heart attacks, flu, etc.,  or anything else that the conditions that they were living in would bring on.