william robinson 2/4th leicester regiment army number 2926 year 1914-1918.
2007-01-17 07:36:15 · 6 answers · asked by MEL R 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
British Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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Imperial War Museum Home Page
WW1 Service Records Overview
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http://www.pitt.edu/~pugachev/greatwar/information.htm
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2007-01-17 07:42:41 · answer #1 · answered by WelshKiwi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Medal card of Robinson, William
Corps Regiment No Rank
Leicestershire Regiment 2926 Private
Leicestershire Regiment 200546 Private
Date 1914-1920
Catalogue reference WO 372/17
Dept Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies
Series War Office: Service Medal and Award Rolls Index, First World War
Piece Ridley C - Shacklady T
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/browse-refine.asp?CatID=10&searchType=browserefine&pagenumber=1&query=*&queryType=1
No results from CWGC. It will cost £3.50 to download a medal index card. I've copied and pasted the initial search result above.
2007-01-17 20:27:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Military Records are at the National Archives in Kew, London. That is the good news.
The bad news is that the official World War 1 service records were on the receiving end of a Nazi bomb during the London Blitz in WW2 and what wasn't destroyed by the fire was water-damaged by the fireman's hoses trying to put the thing out. As a result, it is usually estimated that some 60% of army records were destroyed for good. Even some of those that survive are not always especially legible.
Currently the only way of looking through these surviving records is in person at the National Archives (held in series WO/363 and W0/364), although some Mormon Family History Centres hold copies on microfilm too. Series WO/364 contains records resconstructed after the event mostly from pension records of those who survived the war - the main records are in WO/363, which are filed alphabetically, but obviously your chances of success are not good. Ancestry is supposed to be putting these records online at some point in the near future, along with other surviving WW1 records, but as other answerers have suggested, the easiest way to start is by downloading the medal card for your man at the National Archives website for £3.50 as these DO survive, and can at least give you some idea of what theatre of war he served in and what medals he was entitled to.
If you were feeling really brave, you would also look up the regimental diaries at the National Archives for the Leicester Regiment during this period to find out what they were up to and where, but it would be unusual to find an ordinary soldier mentioned by name in these logs.
In all honesty the best method is probably to employ a professional researcher to search for you as they will know exactly where to look at Kew and find whatever survives quicker and easier than an amateur ever could.
2007-01-19 07:04:01 · answer #3 · answered by Mental Mickey 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If from the united kingdom, initiate with the national archives (appropriate under). you may seek the medal rolls. probably you be attentive to which regiment your ancestor exchange into in, so attempt finding for the regimental museum homepage. I even have purely been on the Wiltshire Regiment internet site and have ordered a WW1 conflict diary for the battalion my large uncle exchange into in. ought to coach exciting reading. in case you detect the regiment internet site, you may discover out all varieties of exciting issues.
2016-10-31 09:16:57 · answer #4 · answered by andry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Imperial war museum, commonwealth war graves commission.
all on web
2007-01-17 07:43:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i knew it as well.
2007-01-17 07:40:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋