Theatre of war

[jayaydee]

I've just looked up a couple of my relatives on  the Soldiers Died in the Great War database on Ancestry. For both of them, it says the theatre of war was Aldershot. One relative "died of wounds" in April 1916 and the other was "killed in action" in August 1918. Surely he wouldn't have been killed in action in Aldershot

Can anyone enlighten me?

[nanny jan]

Hi,

If you search for them on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site you should find some more accurate information.

http://www.cwgc.org



Nanny Jan

[jayaydee]

Thanks nanny jan. I'd already found them on GWGC and was hoping to glean more info from Ancestry. I was just curious as to why it said Aldershot when they both died in France.

Many thanks anyway.

[ainslie]

This is the subject of many complaints made to Ancestry about their transcription, with no result so far.  Most of those Aldershot  entries should be 'France and Flanders'.
[Enough comments about present-day dangers of Aldershot on Friday/Saturday nights have already been made.]

[forester]

The "Born, Enlisted, Residence" entries on the A**y database are also scrambled.

Phil