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From: "Tom Tulloch-Marshall" <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] Uncommemorated WW1 Dead
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 12:04:21 +0100
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Ed - Just a couple more gloomy comments to add to your misery, I'm afraid !

Frederick Batchelor - the mic which you posted is showing discharge with
Silver War Badge entitlement. So, when this man died, either through the
effects of wounds or natural causes, he was no longer serving in the Army so
was not an "official statistic". Hence no entry in SDITGW or CWGC.

Reuben or Frank / Francis Batchelor. The mic which you have posted is
unlikely in the extreme to be the correct man. The mic clearly shows a
(possibly, maybe probably post war) discharge to re-enlist. The card is
badly copied and it is likely that the last digit of the "new" number has
been partially cut off. You could check this with the medal rolls, but that
may well turn out to be a 6 digit post war Army number.

"Local" war memorials can be a nighmare to research, for various reasons.
Firstly you have to be aware that both the SDITGW and CWGC databases are not
short of the odd error or two (gross understatement !). Secondly, you have
to understand that CWGC (IWGC as it was in those days) had / have no
"connection" with what was put on the local memorials - and errors often
arose because the next of kin often seem to have given "wrong" information
to the organising committees.

Most commonly men who had transfered regiments or corps appear noted as
serving with the unit from which they had been transferred, not the regiment
or corps which they were serving with when they died. In other cases the
next of kin or others supplying the information seem to have been "confused"
about which unit the man actually served with, and as there seems often to
have been no attempt to check the information supplied against "official"
sources this erronious information was just taken at face value.

Sorry I cant be more positive than that.

regards
--
Tom Tulloch-Marshall
Great War Military Research

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