museumtom Posted 19 October , 2004 Author Share Posted 19 October , 2004 WALSH, James Albert, Chicago., Illinois, Corporal, KILLED IN ACTION Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
healdav Posted 19 October , 2004 Share Posted 19 October , 2004 What database is this? I had always understood that the USA had no national database of Men Who Died (something to do with the States using their non-Federal powers). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Burns Posted 19 October , 2004 Share Posted 19 October , 2004 Hi Healdav, There was a privately published Soldiers Died which gives ranks names and hometowns and how they died (KIA, Wounds, DOD etc.) but it doesn't give units nor dates so it can be a little frustrating to use (it is also very incomplete). There is the ABMC which has an online searchable database of AEF men who are buried in France (name, rank, unit, date of death and place of burial). SOmetimes through cross-referencing you can find the hometown of a casualty on the ABMC or the date and unit of someone in the Soldiers Died. It's a very imperfect system. Take care, Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
museumtom Posted 19 October , 2004 Author Share Posted 19 October , 2004 What Neil is trying to say is that the CD he has(and I have also) is a digital copy of Soldiers of the great war) which in the USA version of SDGW with less info but has more on USA Naval stuff also, unless I am mistaken. Tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottsGreys Posted 20 October , 2004 Share Posted 20 October , 2004 Neil/Tom: Thanks guys--that would be him as he was living in Chicago although a Canadian by birth. Grateful for your help! Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Burns Posted 20 October , 2004 Share Posted 20 October , 2004 What Neil is trying to say is that the CD he has(and I have also) is a digital copy of Soldiers of the great war) which in the USA version of SDGW with less info but has more on USA Naval stuff also, unless I am mistaken. Tom. Hi Tom, you are correct the naval information is much more extensive than the army. By the way, how much would you charge to clarify all my posts so people can understand me? Take care, Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottsGreys Posted 20 October , 2004 Share Posted 20 October , 2004 Neil/Tom: If you want to see a photo of Cpl. James Albert Walsh, see my post tonight in "Americans in the CEF" thread in Other category. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
museumtom Posted 20 October , 2004 Author Share Posted 20 October , 2004 Neil. As a fellow Lieut Col I could never charge you, ewld chap!!!. I would only charge the lower ranks. Regards. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottsGreys Posted 1 November , 2004 Share Posted 1 November , 2004 Tom: I know this is vague, but could you be so kind as to check your American database for the surname: Seader (Seador), supposedly a Corporal, possibly in the engineers. Thanks in advance, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
museumtom Posted 1 November , 2004 Author Share Posted 1 November , 2004 Sorry Chris, None in Soldiers of the Great War and none in the Battle Monuments Commission. I tried other spellings also with no hits. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottsGreys Posted 2 November , 2004 Share Posted 2 November , 2004 Tom, Thanks for checking--greatly appreciated. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Burns Posted 2 November , 2004 Share Posted 2 November , 2004 Tom: I know this is vague, but could you be so kind as to check your American database for the surname: Seader (Seador), supposedly a Corporal, possibly in the engineers. Thanks in advance, Chris Hi Chris, Any chance he's in the 29th? I have their roll of honor and will check when i get home. Take care, Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Burns Posted 3 November , 2004 Share Posted 3 November , 2004 Chris, Nothing on the Roll of Honor but I did find a Pvt. L.W. Seaber Co H 115th infantry 29th Division on the full roster. That's it. Take care, Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottsGreys Posted 8 November , 2004 Share Posted 8 November , 2004 Neil: I just caught up with this thread. Thanks for your efforts in checking, but as far as I know, Seador? was a corporal in the engineers. Appreciate the info, though, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottsGreys Posted 8 November , 2004 Share Posted 8 November , 2004 Tom: Could I call upon your good graces to check for: Private John Franklin Leiby KIA 10 October 1918 From Pennsylvania, so may have been 28th Division, AEF Always with thanks, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
museumtom Posted 8 November , 2004 Author Share Posted 8 November , 2004 LEIBY, John F., Allentown., PENNISYLVANIA, Private, DIED OF DISEASE. Thats all I have on him. Regards. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgis Posted 8 November , 2004 Share Posted 8 November , 2004 hi all, would you please have a look for a pvt.james moore.40601.north staffords,1st batt. it would be greatly appreciated thanks paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
museumtom Posted 8 November , 2004 Author Share Posted 8 November , 2004 Born, enlisted and lived in Stafford,has no know grave but is commemorated; MOORE, JAMES Initials: J Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Private Regiment: North Staffordshire Regiment Unit Text: 1st Bn. Date of Death: 31/07/1917 Service No: 40601 Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 55 Cemetery: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgis Posted 8 November , 2004 Share Posted 8 November , 2004 thanks for that tom.much appreciated. paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin12 Posted 8 November , 2004 Share Posted 8 November , 2004 Hi, Do you have anything on Lt Col E W Furse 88thb Bde RFA died 19 May 1918? Thanks Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
museumtom Posted 8 November , 2004 Author Share Posted 8 November , 2004 88th Brigade, 'Killed' ( not kia) from ODGW and the cwgc says; FURSE, EDMUND WILLIAM Initials: E W Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Lieutenant Colonel Regiment: Royal Field Artillery Unit Text: 88th Bde. Age: 41 Date of Death: 19/05/1918 Additional information: Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Eldest son of Edmund Furse, of Alphington, Frimley; husband of Jessie C. Furse, of 21, Halsey St., Chelsea, London. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: B. 20. Cemetery: DORMANS FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY also found this; LT, 26/09/99, p3a. Dateline Calcutta, 25 Sept. The Sirdhana left to-day with troops for SA. Dateline Bombay, 25 Sept. Two squadrons of the 9th Lancers have sailed for SA on the transports Wardha and Nowshera. Dateline Simla, 25 Sept. The last of the Indian transports, with troops for SA will leave for Durban tomorrow. p4b. Field Artillery units left Aldershot last night by 4 special trains carrying troops and horses. The units were for shipment to the Cape. The first to depart was the 18th Field Battery, Maj Scott, commanding. Other officers were: Capt. F.B. Johnstone, Lts. H.E. Carey, A.M. Fox and 2nd Lt. E.W. Furse. The 75th Field Battery departed next, commanded by Maj. W.F.L. Lindsay. Other officers were: Capt. H.J.W. Farrell, Capt. A.R.G. Begbie, Lt. P.J. Patterson and 2nd Lt. Buchanan Dunlop. The last to go was the 62nd Field Battery, under Maj. Garnett. Other officers were: Capt. H.F. Askwith, Lts. L.M. Phillpotts, J.H.W. Johnstone and 2nd Lt. H.E.S. Wynne. The guns and baggage left by two special trains earlier in the day. The ammunition field column formed under Maj. E.S. May at Aldershot will leave for Natal next Saturday. Strength is 8 officers and 194 men and about 60 ammunition wagons. The steamers Zibenghla and Zayathla, chartered from the British India Company for the conveyance of troops to SA are at Birkenhead and fitted for service. Each vessel has accommodations for 250 men and nearly as many horses. The troops to embark to-day are the 18th, 62nd and 75th Batteries of Field Artillery and will number 500. The Admiralty too over the steamers Trogan and Spartan from the Union Steamship Co. to be fitted as hospital ships in SA waters. They are fitting out at Southampton. The ammunition column mentioned above will sail in the Union liner Gaika from Southampton next Saturday. p8d. The hired transport Avoca left Alexandria yesterday for Cape Town. The hired transport Jelunga arrived and left Gibralter yesterday for Cape Town. also;.look here; http://www.nathanielspens.com/pafg29.htm also this; http://hometown.aol.co.uk/heatherasplin/bwsl02.html also this; London Times 13/12/01 (Friday) p3a Dateline Bombay, Dec. 12. The City of Vienna arrived here to-day from Durban with 352 Boer prisoners. 17 cases of measles and one death from pneumonia during the voyage. p8a The Ranee left for England Dec. 7, with the following on passage home: “Q” RHA – Maj. G. Humphreys, Lts. E.R. Burne, R.W. St. L. Gethin, E.W. Furse and 86 men Derby – Capt. G.D. Goodman 1/N. Staffordshire – 2/Lt. J.F. Thomson Gloucester – Capt. R.M.M. Davy 2/Worcester – Lt. C.E. Borton ASC – 2/Lt. C.W. Fletcher 1/R. Munster Fus. – Lt. A.C.L. Tyrrell Civil Surgs. J. Gardner, T.S. Allan Nursing Sisters J. Paget, M.G.A. Warner Due Southampton Jan . 5. He is not in de Ruvigneys roll of honour. Regards. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottsGreys Posted 9 November , 2004 Share Posted 9 November , 2004 Tom: Thanks again--you're the best! Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner R.A. Posted 17 November , 2004 Share Posted 17 November , 2004 Hello Tom, i would be very grateful if you would be kind enough to do a look-up in SDITGW for the following soldier, M Goldsbrough, Private, 51331, Northumberland fusiliers, 1st Bn, 01/09/18. Yours, Peter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
museumtom Posted 17 November , 2004 Author Share Posted 17 November , 2004 Pte Matthew Goldsbrough, 1st batt Northumberland Fusiliers, Born Stapleton, in Thackley, enlisted in Shipley while living in Stapleton, KIA 1/9/18 in France and Flanders. regards. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedalHunter Posted 18 November , 2004 Share Posted 18 November , 2004 Hello museumtom, This is a bit of a long shot. My local records office has sdgw on cd but due to a system upgrade it no longer works. They are now closed until the new year for refurb and expect to be up and running then. I'm trying to locate a couple of men on my local memorial. Frustratingly they only have surname and one initial. I have identified 14 but am struggling with 5. I intended doing a search on sdgw for men born in Winterborne Kingston or living in WK at the time of enlistment. It is sometimes spelt Winterbourne as well. Would it be too much to ask for you to try fo me? Their names are:- W. Marsh G. Steele C. Vine B. Walley C. Miller I appreciate that it is a long shot without much information but would be grateful for anything that you can come up with. Thanks in advance, Ian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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