4 Gordon Highlanders War Diary April 1915. Does it exist?

[rolt968]

Not a look up request, but a "does it exist?" request.

I thought I had asked this before, but can't find it. (Apologies if I have!)

 

Does the War Diary for 4 Gordon Highlanders for April 1915 exist? The ancestry file goes from the end of March to the beginning of June.

RM

[wandererpaul]

Incorrect. It is incorrectly indexed on their too. Just looked through the cd and it too has April 1915 missing.

Edited 20 June , 2017 by wandererpaul

[Phil Wood]

I have it in the diary downloaded from TNA before they redid it all and Ancestry got involved.

 

I will see if I can find it on Ancestry.

[rolt968]

6 minutes ago, Phil Wood said:

I have it in the diary downloaded from TNA before they redid it all and Ancestry got involved.

 

I will see if I can find it on Ancestry.

Many thanks.

RM

[Phil Wood]

Yes, it is on Ancestry - looks to be indexed correctly.

 

Yet there does seem to be an omission - the Ancestry file goes from 12 March to 1 April missing out 4 pages of diary entries and some interesting appendices (including the RFC 'Notes on Landing Grounds' - not totally sure why that was relevant) as well as the folder cover for April.  All are on the old download.

 

[GraemeClarke]

hi

 

http://www.4thgordons.com/Bndiary1915.html

 

Regards,

 

Graeme

[Phil Wood]

1 minute ago, GraemeClarke said:

hi

 

http://www.4thgordons.com/Bndiary1915.html

 

Regards,

 

Graeme

 

Great - but no Notes on Landing Grounds!

 

More seriously the other two appendices are really interesting - one instructing men not to fire on airships without an officer's permission - it seems the British had been trying to shoot down French airships.  The other is about the tampering with cartridges (dum dumming or reversing the bullets) by the enemy - evidently GHQ are very keen to test the veracity of rumours of such cartridges being found in the possession of captured Germans - 'three officers will at once be assembled to verify the facts and to record the prisoner's name, regiment, etc.' . You find some great stuff in war diary appendices, such a shame Ancestry have lost these!

 

And thanks for prompting me to look at these pages!

 

Does anyone have a recent TNA download (WO 95/14212)?  I fear it may match the Ancestry file.  And it certainly isn't the value of the old downlard - Aug 1914- May 1919 in one zip file.

[rolt968]

1 hour ago, GraemeClarke said:

hi

 

http://www.4thgordons.com/Bndiary1915.html

 

Regards,

 

Graeme

Thanks Graeme, that's excellent.

 

I knew that 4 GH war diary was terse, but that gives me what I wanted to know. My man died at 8 Field Ambulance on 15 April 1915.

RM