Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

I have these two Casualties for WW1.

http://www.liverpool-genealogy.org.uk/p ... hp?t=11274

Obviously the errors have been made by CWGC when they have set up their Website (easily done) when you are inputting so many names. Daggers or Steve if I we're to send these corrections along with some others I have which clearly prove it's their error do you think I will still have to purchase the death certificates? to prove the correct dates of death.

I found a wrong date of death of a navy man killed in 1915. Ancestry had his year of death as 1918. I couldn't add a correction so contacted them with evidence such as a photo of the gravestone to show that they had the wrong year. They said they would investigate so hopefully they will amend it at some point in the future.

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Katie
I think you should ask CWGC to check their records before you splash out on death certs. They are usually helpful with queries like this.
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Sent of a query form. Thanks Daggers

Agreed that you should simply contact CWGC first.

Many of the errors on their database come from the digitisation of their records in 1999, and they will always check against their original registers when these queries arise. I have had a few of these corrected following a simple email to them - though they can take several weeks to respond.

Some are not so straightforward, though. I have contact them with details of three men (officers) who were killed in Mesopotamia, along with a copy of the War Diary recording their dates of death which differed by a week from that stated on the CWGC website. Their reply was that the date on their database is the date advised by the War Office back in the 1920's and they would not change that, despite contradictory evidence.

It's also worth remembering that SDGW is not always right, but is impossible to have changed.