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Many thanks for links.

Have now found his burial using....
Deceased Online - thank for help.

Just found out that George Easter Claxton b 1889 in Norfolk committed suicide by poisoning himself in 1922 and his death was registered in Bucklow.

Any advice as to where any records might be found appreciated - newspapers - burial place - looking for a needle in a haystack.

Thank you

Would anyone be able to suggest where it might be possible to find records for service in Foreign Legion - have certificate & photo in uniform? for chap who was born 1932. Apparently he had two passports - maybe had to make a quick getaway?

Knellie

Just returned from very moving visit. Didn't think I had any family links until notes revealed Cecil Reckless - the family grave records he died from wounds received in Gallipoli.

The National Archive online database has provided unbelievable details which show he was with 'the Anson Battalion on 13.06.15 N.O.K informed he was dangerously ill'. He died a year later 11.06.16 having being admitted to Croydon General Hospital suffering from wound of skull.

Not only is the family link moving but having had the privilege to visit the area and see the Dardenelles 100 years later - amazing to try to imagine all those who brought him home.

Knellie

Have just come across a link:

http://www.cicr.org/eng/resources

During the First World War, the Agency collected, analysed and classified information it received from the detaining powers and national agencies about prisoners of war and civilian internees. It compared this information with requests submitted to it by relatives or friends, in order to restore contact between them. The Agency’s archives also contain diplomatic correspondence between the ICRC and the warring countries on protection for detainees and reports on visits by ICRC delegates to prisoner-of-war camps.

The archives of the International Prisoner-of-War Agency are included in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register.

The Agency’s collections consist of some 500,000 pages of lists and six million index cards. Each year up to July 2011, the ICRC processed several hundred requests for information submitted by historians and relatives of prisoners.

In 2008, the ICRC’s archivists began a project to restore and scan the lists and index cards. As a result, the documents are currently unavailable for consultation and the ICRC cannot at present deliver certificates of captivity for people who were prisoners during the First World War.

Once this project has been completed, more efficient research methods can be developed and time will be saved in accessing the information. Thanks to the online application, anyone will be able to search the archives directly on the internet as of August 2014.

Still hoping to find more for Samuel Henry CLAXTON - Roots Chat folk helped me back in 2008!!

Knellie