Cheshire / GWR

[elewis]

This is an excellent site that contains pictures and transcriptions of a very large number of War Memorials in Cheshire, also a fair bit of other stuff about the county. It also has an index of surnames and what memorial they are on.

http://www.carlscam.com/

Among the memorial it details the Great Western Railway memorial that is found in the Chester Railway station, this RoH is not unique to Chester and I know of another surviving copy on the heritage Dean Forest Railway at Lydney. This lists all the 2,524 GWR men killed in the Great War broken down by department and location. So if you knew a man worked on the railway but no more this could well provide extra information.

FYI: The number of Great Western men who joined His Majesty's Forces was 25,479, representing thirty-three per cent of the Company's staff. Those who gave their lives in the war numbered 2,524.

http://www.carlscam.com/chester/gwrmem.htm

[elewis]

Made a trip to Lydney to get the the missing names on the GWR WWI memorial today. But unless I have gone blind or mad (both possible) I can not see a way to contact the carlscam site !!!.

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In the mean time tthe missing GWR names are (taken from a copy at the Dean Forest Railway, but originally located at Severn Tunnel Junction) -

Traffic department

Bristol
1 BURNETT G.F.A.
2 BUXTON J.F.
3 COLE R.A
4 COWHEARD J.

Cradley Heath
5 HINTON S.

6 GILFACH (location)
7 HANN F.

8 GLOUCESTER (location)

Monpelier
9 ROBERTS D.C.

10 MORRISTON (location)

Patchway
11 PITT F.G.

12 RUABON (location)
13 JONES H.


Goods department

Hockley
14 ROPER A.M.
15 SANDERS H. (note Sanders not Sanderson)

[John_Hartley]

I can not see a way to contact the carlscam site !!!.

It's a number of years since I contacted Carl and his email is not in my address book. But, from a vague memory, I think it may be carl@carlscam.com

[elewis]

John, very many thanks for that.

It sounds perfectly logical so I have just given it a try.

Evan

[elewis]

It's a number of years since I contacted Carl and his email is not in my address book. But, from a vague memory, I think it may be carl@carlscam.com

John, very well remembered.

Just had a response from Carl and he will update the GWR memorial record in due course.

Evan

[elewis]

Just found 2 more good links for the GWR

First one as the name suggests are photographs of a lot of the GWR casualties

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gwr_casualties/sets/72157623520135696/

Swindon Central Library has a Flickr photo set of Great Western Railway staff magazine scans, showing soldiers from Swindon Works who died.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/sets/72157621922606653/

Evan