Summary 953 – Men identified with service number (+1 this month) 746 – Confirmed ’08 service numbers (+2) 87 – Men identified without service number (+1) 55 – Portraits (+11) 47 – Descendants contacted (+6) 31 – Profiles drafted (+5) September was a slow month, with work taking priority. That Read more
Summary 952 – Men identified with service number (+3 this month) 744 – Confirmed ’08 service numbers (+2) 86 – Men identified without service number 50 – Portraits (+10) 41 – Descendants contacted (+16) 26 – Profiles drafted August was a quiet month, with me focusing on contacting descendants, drafting Read more
Summary 949 – Men identified with service number (+3 this month) 742 – Confirmed ’08 service numbers (+3) 86 – Men identified without service number (-1) 40 – Portraits (+13) 23 – Descendants contacted July was an important month for the project, I took the decision to shift my focus Read more
Summary 946 – Men identified with service number (+8 this month) 739 – Confirmed ’08 service numbers (+8) 86 – Men identified without service number (+1) 27 – Portraits (+5) It’s been a bit of a roller-coaster this month. Its felt that some weeks I’ve made great progress and others, Read more
Summary 938 – Men identified with service number (+9 this month) 731 – Confirmed ’08 service numbers (+10) 85 – Men identified without service number (+85) 22 – Portraits (+1) June was a really productive month with progress in a wide range of areas. Highlights included: Review of post WW1 Read more
Update 929 – Men identified 721 – Confirmed ’08 service numbers 21 – Portraits confirmed Its been a bit of a slow month as I’ve needed to focus on finding a new job. That said, progress has included uploading the Rees Williams photo album, another trip to the National Archives, Read more
March was another productive month with progress being made on a number of fronts. National Archives I was lucky enough to have the time for a trip to the National Archives in Kew. My aims were two-fold, to look for the surviving officer service records of the men of the Read more
Its been another productive month where I’ve mostly focussed on finding new service records on Findmypast which I’ve subscribed to thanks to some great advice (the indexing is so much better). This has led to finding another 70 men and another 30 new service records, bringing the grand total of Read more
In January, I’ve had a lot of time to focus on the project – I’m in-between jobs so I’ve made a lot of progress. The biggest step forward was putting the searchable Nominal Roll on-line, complete with basic pages showing the information that I’ve found for each man. In total, Read more
Its taken some time (and quite a bit of head scratching), but I’m pleased to say that the new Nominal Roll is now up and running. The roll can be accessed from the main menu by clicking on ‘The Men’, then its the first choice. The first page for the Read more