Yes indeed John, it has taken 3 military historians about 4 years to compile. Are you local John? Had a look at your own effort - very interesting and easy to navigate. Too many confusing websites out there... ha ha.
This site (Rootschat) is brilliant too - fantastic to see people helping eachother like this... I didn't realise how close "you lot" stick together... I am begining to understand why the National Archives is always so full with family historians... ha ha.
I thought I might take this oppertunity to ask for a volunteer -
If you have a look at our website, you will see that we have submitted 18 cases to the Ministry of Defence for belated commemoration. So far we have had 11 approved which means that these brave men (who gave their lives for their country) will now have their names recorded as casualties of war and will all get new CWGC war graves.
We are presently working on an additional 30 or so cases which we hope to make cases for soon. All these names have been lifted off civic Kent War Memorials. We have been unable to locate them on the CWGC.
We want to recruit a "family historian" - someone who is interested in helping these men get the tribute they deserve. We are military historians not family historians. Often we struggle tracing births, deaths and marriages etc... It would greatly assist us if we could find someone who is prepared to help us out on a voluntary basis. All costs will be defrayed by us...
Probably the best thing to do in the first instance is have a look at our work on Ashfordfallen and Kentfallen.
If anyone is interested in helping these men get war graves then please send me a personal message
Best Wishes
Neil
