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An easy question
« on: Thursday 15 May 14 14:41 BST (UK) »
Are service records available for casualties of WW1? I cannot seem to find an answer.

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Re: An easy question
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 15 May 14 15:45 BST (UK) »
The short answer is yes, however whether they survived WW2 is another question as about 2/3 were destroyed during the Blitz.

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Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
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Re: An easy question
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 15 May 14 16:28 BST (UK) »
Thanks jim1
                   I am trying to establish if family rumour is correct about how  my great uncle died. Rumour has it that he was delousing using petrol or fuel oil and it caught fire and about 20 service men were badly burnt or in his case died. This was 3 December 1917 in France/Flanders. He was in the 457th Field Co Royal Engineers.
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Heginbotham in Derbyshire

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Re: An easy question
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 15 May 14 16:30 BST (UK) »
hi
as he died on active service have you checked the commonwealth war graves site for him .
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Re: An easy question
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 15 May 14 17:17 BST (UK) »
Thanks Trevor
                    I have all the details from the CWGC. No info there on how it happened.
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Collins in Staffordshire
Brackenbury, Gurnell and Willson in Lincolnshire and now Nottinghamshire
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Heginbotham in Derbyshire

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Re: An easy question
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 15 May 14 17:26 BST (UK) »
Not sure the RE would be involved in de-lousing.I would have thought that was down to the RAMC.

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Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
Census information is Crown copyright,from
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

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Re: An easy question
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 15 May 14 18:02 BST (UK) »
Sorry jim I should have put that they were delousing themselves after being in the trenches.
Hannam in London, Nottinghamshire and Sheffield
Collins in Staffordshire
Brackenbury, Gurnell and Willson in Lincolnshire and now Nottinghamshire
Marples in Derbyshire and Yorkshire
Heginbotham in Derbyshire