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WWI missing or dead

  • 08-03-2013 10:21pm
    #1
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭


    I've been searching for a name in the CWGC graves and there are only two which might be possibles. The others I can discount as it gives their family details, these two have no family information. How can I find out if one of them is my man? I do not know for sure that he died but he seems to have disappeared during the WW1 period.


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  • #2
    pedroeibar1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    Possibly a search of the military archives in the NA at Kew? Didn't soldiers have to list a 'next of kin' on their mil. records?


  • #3
    shanew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭shanew


    many of the surviving WW1 era military records are on Ancestry - but most (think over 60%) were destroyed during the blitz.


  • #4
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Thanks. My two records have no family listed on CWGC - would that mean Kew wouldn't have it either. Doesn't make sense that all the others on the list of the same name have parents/wife named but my two have zero.


  • #5
    shanew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭shanew


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Thanks. My two records have no family listed on CWGC - would that mean Kew wouldn't have it either. Doesn't make sense that all the others on the list of the same name have parents/wife named but my two have zero.

    now that I think of it I'm not sure that attestation or service records were retained for men that died in the war.

    But it's worth searching for medal cards and newspaper notices to see if there's any further details.

    Do you know he was in the Army - or just that this guy disappeared around that time, could he have emigrated ?


  • #6
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I believe he went to war but never came back.

    Edit: I was told he died and I am trying to confirm that.


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  • #7
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Just post the names here and we'll check on Ancestry for you (or post in the research a soldier thread in the WWI forum)


  • #8
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Thanks Ponster but I can't post the name at present. I will check out that thread you recommended.


  • #9
    enfield
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,109 ✭✭✭enfield


    PM me the name and the County (so I can check the papers if I have them)and I will see if he is there.
    Cheers.
    Tom


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