War Diaries Talk

Tip: Discovering Casualty Names for other ranks

  • Andys320 by Andys320

    Try Geoffs WW1 Search Engine http://www.hut-six.co.uk/cgi-bin/search1421.php

    Enter date of casualty and unit, and search.

    Particularly effective when a unit suffers one or two men killed on a particular date.

    Best regards

    Andy

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  • marie.eklidvirginmedia.com by marie.eklidvirginmedia.com

    Tip: When tagging the Person List. The Reason Box: You can scroll down but I have also found it useful to:-

    If you type in the Reason Box

    the letter I, it will bring up In Command.
    the letter A will immediately give you the 3 options
    the letter J will bring up Joined or attached.
    the letter D will bring up the 4 options
    the letter R will bring up the 5 options
    the letter C will bring up the 6 options combat is the 7th option
    the letter P will bring up promoted
    the letter O will bring up Other

    I have found this useful. Maybe though the taggers know this already.

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  • Poodle by Poodle in response to Andys320's comment.

    I hadn't heard of this website, so had a look this morning. Seems like the WW1 search page has been suspended.

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  • HeatherC by HeatherC moderator in response to Poodle's comment.

    Geoff uses an old version of the CWGC database so as I understand it when they changed their search (the name search is not so good now) Geoff got an order of magnitude more hits and so has suspended the facility to force CWGC to sort out their name search (which they are doing). Although his search engine is easier to use, his data is an old version of CWGC and you will not find everyone. Just use CWGC where you can export the results to Excel and sort them.

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