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RESEARCH HELP NEEDED

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Photographs or Information
We are very keen to receive photographs or any information relevant to the people named on this website.  For example, we would like if possible to include a photograph of each man's grave or memorial.  The vast majority are of course in France and Belgium but some are scattered further afield, including in the UK.  We provide lists below.  If you can help by taking a photograph in any of these cemeteries or have any further information, please tell the DTI War Memorials Project.

WW1 Research Help Needed

Cemeteries/Memorials overseas (other than in France and Belgium) where photographs are sought
All the cemeteries overseas are in the care of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.  Full details of how to find the cemetery are given on the entry of the casualty concerned in the Debt of Honour Register.

 

 

 

CountryLocation of cemeteryCasualties (click to see precise grave details)
EgyptAlexandria, Cairo, Port Said, KantaraC.A. Bean C.E. BullivantR.J. GodsiffJ.M. Isaac A. Rotherham
IndiaKirkeeT. Hughes
IraqBasra, Baghdad, Amara T. PeelF.W. Strickland E.F. MartinT.H. Maynard
IsraelRamleh, Jerusalem, Gaza, BeershebaG.K.T. FisherG.F. Wheeler
ItalyBoscon, Cremona U.R.C. Gardner H.N. Verrells
LebanonBeirut R.E. Miller

Cemeteries/Memorials in the UK of which photographs are sought

Location of cemeteryCasualties (click to see precise grave details)
Widnes D.E. Basnett
Hipswell, Yorkshire John Campbell
Wandsworth (Streatham) C.T.W. Jeffries
Scarborough, YorkshireA. Millner
Westminster, LondonC.J. Pike
Tooting, London W.F. Skinner
Burslem, Stoke on TrentH. Thornton
Durrington, WiltshireL.V. Thorowgood
New Southgate, HertsG.L. Vince
Wye, KentH.C.L. Vine
Middleton (Boarshaw), LancashireW. Watson DCM
Highgate, LondonT. Wilson

WW2: RESEARCH HELP NEEDED

We need a great deal of help in getting together an authoritative list of Board of Trade staff who died in WW2: see WW2 index

We also need photographs of the graves/memorial inscriptions for the small number of WW2 casualties we already know about.

Cemeteries/Memorials overseas (other than in France and Belgium) where photographs are sought

All the cemeteries overseas are in the care of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.  Full details of how to find the cemetery are given on the entry of the casualty concerned in the Debt of Honour Register.

ountryLocation of cemeteryCasualties (click to see precise grave details)
GermanyBerlin; RheinbergK.F.F. Barton R.G.E. Buckner C.G. Stepney
GibraltarNorth Front M.H. Riddell
MaltaCapucciniF.R. Povey
MyanmarTaukkyanT. Styles
SingaporeKranjiA.W. Donald
USAFloridaM. Statman

Cemeteries/Memorials in the UK of which photographs are sought

Location of cemeteryCasualties (click to see precise grave details)
Chatham Naval Memorial J.W.J. Cahill J.D. Gibbons
Treorchy, RhonddaO.J. Hendon
Air Forces Memorial, RunnymedeG.K. Dearden

Photographs or Information

We are very keen to receive photographs or any information relevant to the people named on this website.    If you can help by taking a photograph in any of these cemeteries or have any further information, on the people listed above or any other person listed on this site,  please tell the DTI War Memorials Project.

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