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Re: Release 230 000 World War I Wills/Letters by Soldiers on their way to battle
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 29 August 13 19:50 BST (UK) »
Hi Irret,
 
i used that site to locate 3 Soldiers wills so far. Cost seems to be £6 per Will. Good luck searching everyone.



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Re: Release 230 000 World War I Wills/Letters by Soldiers on their way to battle
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 29 August 13 20:35 BST (UK) »
Hi All

I could be wrong but I think they may only be From English regiments as I believe the wills from paybooks for Scottish soldiers are still held in Edinburgh.

I sent www.gov.uk  an email asking about this earlier today and am waiting a reply I will post the reply here when I get one.

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Re: Release 230 000 World War I Wills/Letters by Soldiers on their way to battle
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 29 August 13 20:38 BST (UK) »
Thank you so much, I haven't been lucky, I had all the information needed but it seems no will unless he has been miss transcribed, also this site shows only wills no mention of letters?
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Re: Release 230 000 World War I Wills/Letters by Soldiers on their way to battle
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 29 August 13 20:55 BST (UK) »
Just found my Grandfathers will, should recerive it in ten days
Edwards Llanfyllin Wales Evans LLanfyllin Wales
Salmon(Lawrence)b.1847 Monaghan Ireland
Salmon(lawrence)1869 Darlington, died Stockton on Tees
Duffey Staffordshire
Morris LLanfyllin, David Edwards 1779 Llanrhaiader Wales

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Re: Release 230 000 World War I Wills/Letters by Soldiers on their way to battle
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 29 August 13 20:57 BST (UK) »
How exciting, I'm thrilled for you.
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Re: Release 230 000 World War I Wills/Letters by Soldiers on their way to battle
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 29 August 13 21:51 BST (UK) »
The site also seems to contain the wills of dead soldiers from WW2, however I'm getting an error whenever I try to pay for any will, WW1 or WW2. Is anyone else having the same problem? The error message states: unknown order/1/r/
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Re: Release 230 000 World War I Wills/Letters by Soldiers on their way to battle
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 29 August 13 22:31 BST (UK) »
Thanks for sharing just found my great uncle on there will be applying asap.

Ady
Lowe(Lower Gornall-Castleford)
Blackburn (Castleford)
Sidwell(Ledsham)
Fairburn(Hartshead)
Wood(Liversedge)
Tallon (Whittington Lancs/Hartshead West Yorkshire)

Researching all Great War soldiers from the Spen Valley of West Yorkshire Especially lads from the Cleckheaton Company of 1/4th West Riding Regiment.

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Re: Release 230 000 World War I Wills/Letters by Soldiers on their way to battle
« Reply #16 on: Friday 30 August 13 00:18 BST (UK) »
I got the unknown order error too. And then when you go back to your cart everything has been removed and you have to search all over again. Hopefully it is just teething problems as I found three wills!

I may go and give it another try in another browser to see if it is a browser issue!

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Re: Release 230 000 World War I Wills/Letters by Soldiers on their way to battle
« Reply #17 on: Friday 30 August 13 00:24 BST (UK) »
No. Still getting the unknown order error  :-\

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