CWGC errors

[Phil Wood]

I often come across minor errors but this one is quite impressive - the stone (Redoubt Cemetery) for the man who is in their database as A McHENRY.  And the grave location is also wrong (should be XI.A.2).

 

 

 

[John_Hartley]

Presumably you just drop CWGC an email notifying them of the issue? The name discrepancies usually arise when the records were scanned for digitisation years back.

[John(txic)]

Yes, John - if you give them evidence, they're quite receptive.  I've submitted at least half a dozen Black Country lads whose details are incorrect.   

 

May take a while though...

[RaySearching]

I believe Phil is pointing out Its the stone which is inscribed incorrectly

 

Listed on MIC, Medal rolls, SDGW, and soldiers effects as  Pte 1407   Alexander Henry K.O.S.B  KIA  9/12/15

 

Ray

 

[TEW]

The two GRRFs on CWGC have two names for him;

1407 A. McHenry and 1407 RM McHendry. His MIC is to A McHenry but his BWM & V medal roll was originally entered as McHendry and altered to McHenry. 1914-15 Star roll is to McHenry.

 

Not sure where the RM McHendry comes from on CWGC although there is another man who survived - Robert McHendry, Scottish Rifles.

 

CWGC would certainly look into the issue. More to the point, what on earth have they done to their website?

TEW

[Phil Wood]

5 hours ago, RaySearching said:

I believe Phil is pointing out Its the stone which is inscribed incorrectly

 

Listed on MIC, Medal rolls, SDGW, and soldiers effects as  Pte 1407   Alexander Henry K.O.S.B  KIA  9/12/15

 

Ray

 

 

I was not sure which was incorrect, just that they don't match either in surname or initial - now you are suggesting that both are. What makes it worse is that someone visiting to pay their respects will, presumably, be looking for A McHenry at II.A.2 - where they will find another casualty.  This is not that rare, when confronted with the situation I try locations that could be OCRed incorrectly to II.A.2  (I.A.2, III.A.2, etc).  I might well reach up at XI.A.2 - where I would find H M McHendry - but would I connect him to A McHenry?

 

[Phil Wood]

6 hours ago, TEW said:

The two GRRFs on CWGC have two names for him;

1407 A. McHenry and 1407 RM McHendry. His MIC is to A McHenry but his BWM & V medal roll was originally entered as McHendry and altered to McHenry. 1914-15 Star roll is to McHenry.

 

Not sure where the RM McHendry comes from on CWGC although there is another man who survived - Robert McHendry, Scottish Rifles.

 

CWGC would certainly look into the issue. More to the point, what on earth have they done to their website?

TEW

 

I guess this shows the obvious - it's much easier to change paperwork or a database than a stone.  I wonder how long they have known it was wrongly inscribed?

 

There is another thread for comments on the new website, I'm not a fan, particulalry of their testing process!

[Phil Wood]

6 hours ago, John_Hartley said:

Presumably you just drop CWGC an email notifying them of the issue? The name discrepancies usually arise when the records were scanned for digitisation years back.

 

I'm a bit random in my response to errors - I have reported some, not others.

 

I don't even record many of them - at other times I have quite good records.  When I finish sorting out my Gallipoli photos I could send in a few dozen.

 

 

 

[John_Hartley]

31 minutes ago, Phil Wood said:

it's much easier to change paperwork or a database than a stone

Usually, the Commission won't amend a headstone until it's due for replacement which, of course, could be many years if it's in a good state (such as your photo).)

[Michelle Young]

Last year I found a stone at Boulogne Eastern with the epitaph Until We Melt Again. I emailed the CWGC and this year, I was glad to see it amended. Of course, with that one it was just a case of making the L into an E, not replacing the whole stone. 

 

Michelle 

[chaz]

Ive currently asked about Peter Carnie who was Shot at Dawn and is on the Thiepval memorial.  presumably anyone can ask CWGC about changes not necessarily family.