Great Western Railwaymen KIA WW1

[youngtug]

not sure if this is the right place for this, swindon library have put these photos from the gwr magazine [and others] on flikr. Icouldn't find who I was looking for but someone else may find someone.;-  http://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/sets/72157621922606653/

[Mark Abbott]

Excellent; thanks for posting.

Swindon Library are to be congratulated for making these photos available.

Mark

[Daffodilly]

Brillliant, I shall have a good look, thank you 

[scrimnet]

Excellent find...

I've stickied it and changed the title to make it easier to find on RC

I may move it to resources laters...

[Gaille]

WOW!

My 'Smith' family all worked 'on the Railways'

All started in Manchester but then some of them moved with ther jobs and went all over the county - Doncaster, Horwich, Crewe...........and Swindon.

I will be scouring these later to see if I can find any mention of any of them!

Gaille

[Local Studies, Swindon Libraries]

Thank you for your positive feedback.

We are in the process of uploading all the pages of the GWR Magazine that show photographs of servicemen and are so far up to February 1918.  Due to the scale of the project, only ex Swindon staff are itemised by name. 

Its good to hear that this is of interest for family historians.

Regards
Swindon Library

[youngtug]

Further to this posting, my cousin is building a searchable database of these photos.;-  http://www.flickr.com/people/gwr_casualties/

[DeeBoneham]

Swindonlocal
Don't know whether you can help me but my grandfather worked for GWR in Birmingham.  He never joined the military as far as I can tell and I wondered if you had records of what he may have done.  I am not sure of his christian name will have to check back on my ancestry family tree but his surname was Taylor (not a rare one then!).
Dee

[Local Studies, Swindon Libraries]

Dear DeeBoneham,

Well obviously without a full name we won't get anywhere. - also, there will be hundreds of Taylors - probably even just at Birmingham.

Have a read through this thread (on another Genealogy forum):
http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/showthread.php?42860-GWR-Great-Western-Railway
This covers most of the ways of getting information.

However, there is a researcher, David Colcomb, who offers a wonderful service for those tracking down GWR staff. He uses information from the PRO and the WSRO and has several enormous private indexes he has created. He goes to truly titanic efforts for people and only asks that a small donation is made to a children's charity (details of which he will provide).
So any Staff enquiries about the GWR (and ONLY the GWR, not BRWR or other companies) can be sent direct to him:

Pse PM direct...Addrees and phone removed to prevent spamming!

Remember to include clear information and do as much as you can before getting in touch so he has a clear starting point with full name and dates etc.

Hope this helps but feel free to get back in touch if you get stuck.

Swindon Collection
Central Library
Regent Circus
Swindon SN1 1QG

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