Launch of new CWGC sites

Hi Doug,
The link isn't working.

 

They say there might be "interruptions" and I believe it because I searched for my father's cousins using surname only, 3 pages of results came up but after the first page I was sent back to the search. It will be interesting to see what they have to tell once the hiccups have been sorted.

Thanks, Doug, I'll keep looking and hoping.

 

Thanks for that Doug.

I was just about to add another link connected to WW1 -
1418now.org.uk/ (usual www in front).

There, if you click on "Letter to an unknown Soldier" you can join in and write a letter to a WW1 soldier - take a look at the site for the how and whys Thousands of letters have already been submitted (along with some from some very well-known people) and they are all going to appear on line, and, I believe, the archive will be going to the British Library.

Ann

 

Ann, where is this Letter to an unknown Soldier, please. I clicked on that link & have a multitude of photos appear.
No, I don't want to write a letter as I believe it wouldn't be delivered. just curious as to what is held in these pages.

edit:
Think I have it via ;http://www.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2676838/David-Cameron-pens-moving-letter-Unknown-Soldier-mark-100-years-outbreak-WWI.html

 

Scroll down, under the big banner which says 1914 (or it may show a photograph, I think it changes just to confuse people) there is a heading which says "What's On" followed by "Letter to an Unknown Soldier"

Ann

 

Oh wow!

 

Worth bearing in mind that the information is only as good as the source. The WW1 citations were drawn up, I believe, in the mid 1920's. My cousin was completely thrown when she found the citation for her great uncle who died from wounds received in 1917. It named his mother as the late ***** and my cousin assumed this meant she had died 1917 or earlier. She was indeed late, but only by the time the information for the citation was collected.

 

I found the above link very useful.

My husband's grandmother was given as next of kin in the various records for her brother. He was KIA right at the end of the war, so close to safely coming home. My father in law was born not long afterwards, and named after his lost uncle. One can only imagine how his mum felt when, soon after leaving school, he was called up in WWII. She'd lost her beloved brother, and must've been terrified that she was about to lose her only child the same way. He came home.

From his burial records I found that F's remains had been moved and re-buried in a small cemetery in West Flanders after the war, with a couple of others from his Battalion killed the same day.