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Re: Trouble locating WW1 Service Records
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 23 March 11 11:32 GMT (UK) »
Hi hope this helps

Regiment, Corps etc - Machine Gun Corps
 
Battalion/etc - (Infantry).
 
Surname - Mynett
 
Christian Name - Sidney
 
Initials - S
 
Born - Stroud, Glos.
 
Enlisted - Bargoed
 
Residence - Pontilanfraith
 
Rank - PRIVATE
 
Number - 15397
 
Died Date - 10/04/1918
 
Died How - Killed in action
 
Theatre of War - France & Flanders
 
Supplementary Notes - FORMERLY 34893, WELSH REGT.

 Lezley :)
 

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Re: Trouble locating WW1 Service Records
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 23 March 11 16:43 GMT (UK) »
Hi Lezley,

Thank you. There is more detail here than I have seen before. What is the source of this information please?

Many thanks - Mark
Warner, Owen, Putt, Mynett, Wickwar, Norman, Wheeler, Gray, Cooke, Dewick, Holmes, Lawson, Granger, Queenan, Weston, Wesson, Brewin, Cartwright, Heathcote, Heathcoat, Felkin, Morley, Hallam, Wootton, Adkin, Shepshed, Loughborough, Leicester, Philadelphia, Ontario, Nottingham,

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« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 23 March 11 18:32 GMT (UK) »
Hi Mark
I subscribe to a Military Genealogy site and I just had a quick look and that is the info they had on record.
Lezley

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Re: Trouble locating WW1 Service Records
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 23 March 11 18:47 GMT (UK) »
Hi Lezley,

Thank you again.

ATB - Mark
Warner, Owen, Putt, Mynett, Wickwar, Norman, Wheeler, Gray, Cooke, Dewick, Holmes, Lawson, Granger, Queenan, Weston, Wesson, Brewin, Cartwright, Heathcote, Heathcoat, Felkin, Morley, Hallam, Wootton, Adkin, Shepshed, Loughborough, Leicester, Philadelphia, Ontario, Nottingham,

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Re: Trouble locating WW1 Service Records
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 23 March 11 20:01 GMT (UK) »
Mark,

Lezley's information has come from Soldiers Died in the Great War.

It is also available on Ancestry.

Phil
Sussex: Satcher (Hamsey) and Gatton (East Grinstead)
Leicestershire: Pratt
South Wales: Evans (Neath)
Poland: Gonet, Deren

Forest Row: War Memorial and Camp WW1
Lewisham War Memorials & WW1 Graves

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Re: Trouble locating WW1 Service Records
« Reply #14 on: Friday 25 March 11 21:19 GMT (UK) »
The main reason why some people haven't been able to locate the record they are looking for is a result of what happened during WW2. The repository building used by the War Office in south London was hit by an incendiary bomb in Sept 41 (?) and a large number of records were lost or damaged, due not to fire but of the efforts of the firemen in putting out the flames. After the War the War Office put out a call to all Govt. departments that held any WW1 related papers, so that they could be placed in one centralized location.

There are about 3 million service/pension records on Ancestry, only those for 'ordinary ranks' being available - officer records are only viewable at Kew.

With regard to my own 'little' project I have located the records for 74 of the men named on Goole Cenotaph - including those of two brothers.

Regards.
I am researching the 452 names on Goole Cenotaph from the 'Great War'. Have located a number of official records, material and details from the Goole Times printed throughout the War years. In addition I have also obtained copies of photos & letters from relatives of those named on the Cenotaph. In addition I am also researching 280+ men who all had a connection with Goole and who also died, but who are not named on the Cenotaph.

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Re: Trouble locating WW1 Service Records
« Reply #15 on: Friday 25 March 11 22:24 GMT (UK) »
My info comes from a site called Military Genealogy which I subscribe to. It has info on both World wars, the Boer War and Waterloo :)
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