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For any who are still following George Blore: The Australian War Memorial in Canberra will be commemorating his life in their Last Post ceremony to be held at 4.55pm on May 3rd this year. They honour the life and sacrifice of a different person every day, and the calendar is on their website. They are interested to hear from family members to obtain a biography and also a photo of the person honoured.
Family members are invited to attend the 5 minute ceremony and lay a wreath. It is streamed live on the AWM website and then a video of the service is added to the website after about 6 weeks.

This is a fairly recent initiative so I thought it was worth bringing it to people's attention. Hope this helps.

Thanks again Ady
Yes I don't know how to find the record if his death counts as a death at sea.
How do you know he had overseas service and campaign medals? I checked with Forces War Records but they seem to just get their info from other sites. They suggested he may have been eligible for some medals but I think they are just adding stuff to make it look more authoritative so I don't believe them without further proof.
Dianne

Hi
Just found this post while doing a google search for a distant relative, and wondered if anyone could help.
Gerald Frederick Knowles, sapper with the Inland Water Transport Battalion, looks like he enlisted in New York, died 8 May 1918 "home" which I assume was England, or does it just mean "home waters"? His memorial is at Hollybrook at Southampton.
He was born in Liverpool to Frederick Harry and Eliza Florence Knowles in May 1900 and they all appear in Liverpool in the 1911 census but I can't find any records after that so I am assuming the family may have emigrated to the US, which would make sense of an enlistment in New York.
However he would only have been 18 at the time of his death if this is the correct person. I figure it is possible that he could have enlisted at such a young age, but I am just hoping I haven't mixed him up with anyone else.
Ancestry has a reference, UK, soldiers died in the Great War, and the memorial is on the international Find a Grave index, but I cannot find an English death certificate for him. Hollybrook evidently is a memorial for soldiers who were lost in vessels torpedoed in home waters but I can't find any reference to a particular event in which he may have died.
Can anyone advise please?
Thanks, Dianne

Hi
This is a request from Australia. I recently got info on some burials in Sunderland and wondered if anyone would be able to check the cemeteries and see if anything can be seen of the graves.

Ann Robson was buried on 9 Dec 1863 at Mere Knolls, grave no 472 in perpetuity in unconsecrated ground. Her husband Thomas Robson, keelman was buried on 7 March 1871 in the same grave.

Ann's brother George Lamb, boat builder was buried 24 April 1859 in grave 604 ward 7 section AA. His wife Caroline Lamb was also buried there in July 1904. Their daughter Ellen Carlin was buried in ward 7 section AA grave 538 in April 1906. Her son Herbert Daniel Carlin was buried on 25 June 1931 in ward 7 section AA grave 539 in unconsecrated ground.

Another relative Friend Lamb was buried 6 Jan 1914 in ward 3 section BB grave 2604 in consecrated ground (to a depth of 6 feet!). I think this may be in Grangetown  Cemetery.

I understand that AA designates common graves which have not been purchased by families so it is unlikely that there will be a memorial. If anyone is going to the cemeteries anyway, I would be very grateful if you could check for me. Thomas and Ann Robson's daughter Margaret emigrated to New Zealand in 1855 and is my GG grandmother.

Many thanks,
Di

PS I have digital copies of the burial registers and could provide them if it helps. There are 5 pages with 20 records per page so these may help someone else, if you can tell me where to send them.

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I know that it will be difficult to find these people as I have already done lots of searching online.
If I can add another one - I am also looking for Clementina Rodger(s) who married Adam Murdoch (I think he is the grandfather of the previous one) at Craigenton in 1791. Their son John was born in 1792 and I assume she died before 1794 when Adam remarried. I think her father was David Rodger and she was born in Kirkoswald in 1766.
I have been trying to pull together a Rodger family tree and there are 4 named Clementina over the years so it seems to be a family name. It is a bit hard to separate one line from another as they are all John, David, Hugh (including the famous one) and James....