IFTC team - is anyone looking at this soldier?

[Chris_Baker]

Can anyone tell me if the IFTC team has looked, or is looking, at Pte 73975 Horace Underwood, Sherwood Foresters?

He appears in the military deaths index for 1918, but

- no service record

- no medals

- no entry that I can find in CWGC database

- not in SDGW.

I'd be interested in anything you have found and especially why he is not listed by CWGC.

[apwright]

Chris,

If he's in GRO War Deaths, he should be in the IFTC pipeline.

Adrian

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EDIT: Perhaps it's just a case of the GRO typist entering the same service number for these two by mistake:

Name: UNDERWOOD

Initials: H

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

Unit Text: 2nd Bn.

Date of Death: 19/09/1918

Service No: 30748

Additional information: Son of Mrs. E. Underwood, of 1, Park St., Worksop, Notts.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: II. B. 3.

Cemetery: CHAPELLE BRITISH CEMETERY, HOLNON

http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2911980

(First name Horace and service number should be 307485 according to MIC!)

Name: UPTON

Initials: J E

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

Unit Text: 2nd Bn.

Date of Death: 19/09/1918

Service No: 73975

Additional information: Husband of Mrs. M. A. Upton, of 23, Erskine Rd., Egremont, Wallasey, Cheshire.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: B. 31.

Cemetery: TREFCON BRITISH CEMETERY, CAULAINCOURT

http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=273361

(James Edward, formerly 290890 Welsh Regt, according to MIC. His Service Rec is on Ancestry under 2846 "Bn Welsh Regiment Notts & Derets" [sic].)

Their GRO entries are identical apart from the names. Perhaps they were on adjacent lines in whatever document the typist was copying from and he/she got mixed up!

[Bardess]

Chris. I checked that batch in Nov last year and he has been put forward for consideration

[Chris_Baker]

Thank you very much, all. An interesting theory about the number mix-up. Quite possible I guess. He could be distantly related so I will go back to my second-cousin-thrice-removed or whatever she is and see if any of the details rings any bells.