Personal details of WW1 Soldiers.
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It appears someone has rediscovered a wealth of information on WW1 Soldiers in Geneva.
Lets hope the men get the recognition they deserve. It'd be good to get some unknown graves named & questions answered for families.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7940540.stm
Lets hope the men get the recognition they deserve. It'd be good to get some unknown graves named & questions answered for families.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7940540.stm
I find this kind of thing really interesting and of course very saddening at the same time. I am in France very regularly visitng the 'family in law' and often stop at the WW1 ANZAC memorial near where they live in Picardie and its really moving to see all the unknown graves of aussie & kiwi soldiers who died so far from home. All loss would have been terrible but for some family 9000 miles away to never really know what happened to their son/brother/father is really tragic.
Excellent news! My family lost two sons in WW1, my Mum managed to find the grave of one a few years ago but we're still not sure where the other one is.
Fingers crossed that somewhere in this archive is that little key that will tell us where he is so we can go visit his grave as well.
Fingers crossed that somewhere in this archive is that little key that will tell us where he is so we can go visit his grave as well.
MentalSarcasm said:
Excellent news! My family lost two sons in WW1, my Mum managed to find the grave of one a few years ago but we're still not sure where the other one is.
Fingers crossed that somewhere in this archive is that little key that will tell us where he is so we can go visit his grave as well.
Have you tried this site ? Commonwealth war graves commission if you are searching for grave locations.Fingers crossed that somewhere in this archive is that little key that will tell us where he is so we can go visit his grave as well.
Monkey boy 1 said:
Have you tried this site ? Commonwealth war graves commission if you are searching for grave locations.
Feck. 
I know it's a silly thing to say - but the numbers, the vast numbers of young men lying in foreign soil... I've just had a peek at one of my family names, pages of dead (of a moderately unusual name). Some of 'unknown age'.
Very sobering reading.
Monkey boy 1 said:
MentalSarcasm said:
Excellent news! My family lost two sons in WW1, my Mum managed to find the grave of one a few years ago but we're still not sure where the other one is.
Fingers crossed that somewhere in this archive is that little key that will tell us where he is so we can go visit his grave as well.
Have you tried this site ? Commonwealth war graves commission if you are searching for grave locations.Fingers crossed that somewhere in this archive is that little key that will tell us where he is so we can go visit his grave as well.
I know it's a long shot but all we need is just one bit of information in those records that relates to what we know about him, his parents names, his date of birth, where his family was living, so we can find his "number" and then identify which of those five he really is.
MentalSarcasm said:
Monkey boy 1 said:
MentalSarcasm said:
Excellent news! My family lost two sons in WW1, my Mum managed to find the grave of one a few years ago but we're still not sure where the other one is.
Fingers crossed that somewhere in this archive is that little key that will tell us where he is so we can go visit his grave as well.
Have you tried this site ? Commonwealth war graves commission if you are searching for grave locations.Fingers crossed that somewhere in this archive is that little key that will tell us where he is so we can go visit his grave as well.
I know it's a long shot but all we need is just one bit of information in those records that relates to what we know about him, his parents names, his date of birth, where his family was living, so we can find his "number" and then identify which of those five he really is.
NDA said:
MentalSarcasm said:
Monkey boy 1 said:
MentalSarcasm said:
Excellent news! My family lost two sons in WW1, my Mum managed to find the grave of one a few years ago but we're still not sure where the other one is.
Fingers crossed that somewhere in this archive is that little key that will tell us where he is so we can go visit his grave as well.
Have you tried this site ? Commonwealth war graves commission if you are searching for grave locations.Fingers crossed that somewhere in this archive is that little key that will tell us where he is so we can go visit his grave as well.
I know it's a long shot but all we need is just one bit of information in those records that relates to what we know about him, his parents names, his date of birth, where his family was living, so we can find his "number" and then identify which of those five he really is.
I know what you mean, we have his parents names and the address where they lived and his date of birth, BUT the 5 soldiers we found with the same name have none of this information included, unlike the other one that we did find.
Register with ancestry.co.uk
Many WW1 service records have been added but they are up to 'N', though they are working on the rest and they should be done by 2010.
About 65% of records were destroyed in the Blitz.
The Red Cross ones are not the original service records, but from what I understand records of where soldiers killed in action were buried, and may solve mysteries of some of the unknown graves.
On ancestry you can also find medal cards and pension records. Once you have a service number you can then request information from archivists at the regimental museum of wherever they served. I am currently doing this for relatives who served with the Sherwood Foresters, Machine Gun Corps, Army Service Corps and Grenadier Guards - for a donation to each.
http://www.1914-1918.net also has masses of information on.
Many WW1 service records have been added but they are up to 'N', though they are working on the rest and they should be done by 2010.
About 65% of records were destroyed in the Blitz.
The Red Cross ones are not the original service records, but from what I understand records of where soldiers killed in action were buried, and may solve mysteries of some of the unknown graves.
On ancestry you can also find medal cards and pension records. Once you have a service number you can then request information from archivists at the regimental museum of wherever they served. I am currently doing this for relatives who served with the Sherwood Foresters, Machine Gun Corps, Army Service Corps and Grenadier Guards - for a donation to each.
http://www.1914-1918.net also has masses of information on.
MentalSarcasm said:
Not really since he died after 1911 XD
I know what you mean, we have his parents names and the address where they lived and his date of birth, BUT the 5 soldiers we found with the same name have none of this information included, unlike the other one that we did find.
I didn't read your post properly and didn't realise you had his DoB etc.I know what you mean, we have his parents names and the address where they lived and his date of birth, BUT the 5 soldiers we found with the same name have none of this information included, unlike the other one that we did find.
Of the 5 graves you have found, do they list their regiments?
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