Rank and File

[Katie]

For the last 3 years I have been quietly beavering away inputting the names of the Ordinary Rank and File soldiers from the Liverpool & South West Lancashire area into a spread sheet. I am now looking for their entry on Documents online/Ancestry for give them a full first name. There are many who I cant find a entry for. This maybe because:-

1. I have made a mistake when I put in their Regiment number (I.m not perkfict)

2. A error was made when the lists were compiled. (I have gained a lot of respect for Compositors) up and down the Country who scanned these lists and extracted casualties relating to the area that their newspaper covered for the job they did in keeping the public informed of soldiers Killed, wounded and those taken POW etc.

3. They may have transferred to a different Regiment which has not been recorded on their card.

Is any of our members willing to help in trying to identify the soldier who I cannot locate. I don't want their full Family History at the moment as this is a ongoing project and there are sources I will use at the records office to add a bit more information when I finish this stage of the project.

In 1941 70% of the Ordinary Rank and File service records were destroyed, these lists that I have been indexing were issued by the War Office between 1914-1919 and is all that remains of a WW1 soldiers service if their records were amongst those that were destroyed.

Waffling on again.

[dickiesam]

Although I don't have Ancestry, count me in!

[Bertieone]

At your service, Ma'am

[MaryA]

We'll all try our best, you know us Kath.