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A blog regarding the thousands of entries in the book The County of Warwickshire Roll of Honour 1914-2005 - Volume 1 South Warwickshire by Kenneth Fowler.
First published by Able Publishing.

Here we will list errors that we believe we have found and the details of the Men of WW1 which the researchers at the time could not find. Since publication nearly 20 years ago numerous new records have become available online.

We also found that the book had a tendency to fit the "wrong man into the right hole" using CWGC records when often the man had not been given a CWGC grave but we found his death using local death records.

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Warwickshire Roll of Honour - Alveston

Wrong Man Identified - Alveston War Memorial - A Franklin

Page 8 of the book identifies the Cpl A Franklin - Royal Warwickshire Regt on the Alveston War Memorial as L/Cpl 8548 Arthur Franklin who was born, lived and worked in Coventry and we were unable to find a connection to Alveston. Wendy, our ace genealogist, discovered that the man named on the Memorial was Corp 9293 Alec STUART of 1st Bn Royal Warwickshire. Our documented evidence for this is Alec's birth was registered as Alec Stuart Franklin in Apr Qtr 1892 at Leamington Spa
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