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From: Iain Kerr <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] Issue of Commemorative Plaques
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 20:19:15 +0000
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At 09:53 05/11/00, Patrick A Casey wrote:
>Iain,
>You mention the "Soldiers Died in the Great War" CD-ROM. What is this and
>where does one obtain it from ?

Paddy,

Soldiers Died in the Great War

The Roll of Honour - "Soldiers Died in the Great War" was originally an
HMSO publication in 81 volumes and reprinted by J B Hayward and Son.
Essentially it was compiled from the consolidated lists of war dead
prepared by the War Office and submitted to national and local newspapers
for publication during and immediately after the war on a daily basis. The
Roll of Honour lists soldiers from every regiments and corps of the British
Army. A companion volume records "Officers Died in the Great War". Copies
of the original books are held at the PRO, Kew and in some local libraries
in the UK. The books are collector's items and there have been some
reprints over the years. The Roll of Honour is arranged by regiment, and
by battalion within that regiment. For ease of search you need to know
which regiment the casualty served in. However, it is possible to find
individuals through systematic searching using the Medal Rolls to identify
his regiment.

The "Soldiers Died in the Great War" volumes have reputedly been filmed by
the Mormons and should be available on loan through any LDS Family History
Centre.

"Soldiers Died in the Great War" was re-published on CD-ROM in Nov 1998 by
the Naval and Military Press Ltd: URL:
http://www.naval-military-press.co.uk; Postal Address: Unit 10, Ridgewood
Industrial Park, UCKFIELD, East Sussex TN22 5QE, United Kingdom; Telephone
++44 1825 749494; Fax: ++44 1825 865701. The price is GBP 220 + VAT.

The CD-ROM version contains all those listed in the 81 paper volumes of
"Soldiers Died" and Officers Died". The CD-ROM contains 661,994 soldier
entries and 41,855 officer entries. The database provided permits
searches to be made by regiment, battalion, surname, Christian name(s),
initial(s), born (town), born (country), enlisted (town) and other
criteria. So users can find the names of all the soldiers from a particular
battalion who died on a particular day, all the soldiers who enlisted in a
particular place, any soldiers whose numbers began with the digits 123, all
the sergeants who died in a particular week and so on.

I have a copy of the CD-ROM.

Yours aye,

Iain Kerr
In Windsor, Berkshire
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