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From: Forrest Anderson <>
Subject: [WW1] Re: MLFHS: National Roll of the Great War
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 01:31:57 +0000
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 22:51:17 -0000, "Joanne Humphrey"
<> wrote:

>That's the really annoying bit - I did ring them first and they did tell me
>they had all the volumes!

Yep, that's certainly annoying.

>The person I am looking for is John Woodward, from 29 Chapel Street, Rhodes,
>who survived the war and was awarded both the military medal and the DCM. I
>would be very grateful indeed if you could have a look for me.

No problem, but I'm afraid that he's not there. There are a clutch of
Woodwards, and obviously some of them are related to each other. I've
given brief details below, grouped by address:

132 Cross St, Bradford, Manchester
Pte A Woodward, Lancashire Fusiliers,

6 Franchise Street, Chorlton-Medlock, Manchester
Sgt A J Woodward MM, Lancashire Fusiliers,
Pte G F Woodward, Manchester Regt
Pte J L Woodward, Labour Corps
Cpl W Woodward, Royal Army Service Corps

31 Mawson Street, Ardwick Green, Manchester
Sgt J G Woodward, Royal Engineers (Signals Section)

2 Purdon Street, Ancoats, Manchester
Sgt J P Woodward, Machine Gun Corps

118 Dorset Street, Hulme, Manchester
Sgt W J Woodward, King's Own ROyal Lancaster Regiment

>Also, I'm not sure if this publication includes those who did not survive
>the war...

Yes, it does list those who died, and includes RN and RAF personnel,
female personnel, and male and female civilians who had been engaged on
war work, but the great majority of the entries (perhaps about 80-90%)
are for Army men who survived the war, and were either discharged due to
injury, or were demobilised.

>... but I would also be very interested to hear about William Humphrey,
>of the 171st tunnelling company, MCR Regiment who died 15 July 1915 and a
>George Humphrey, who I know little about, but who is remembered on the
>cenotaph at Middleton.

The volume has no-one called Humphrey. It has three men called Humphreys
and one called Humphries. None were killed.

However, there appears to be a discrepancy between the information you
have about this man, and what is recorded officially. Tunnelling
Companies usually belonged to the Royal Engineers, and the information
that appears in "Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1918" bears this
out...

66921 2nd Cpl William Humphrey. 171st Tunnelling Company, Corps of Royal
Engineers. Killed in Action 11 Jul 15 in France & Flanders. Born in
Hardbushes, Co Durham. Enlisted in London. Resided in Manchester.

Note that the date of death is different, as well as his regiment.

If you have someone who died in WW1, then the first port of call is the
Commonwealth War graves Commission's website at www.cwgc.org . If you
follow the link to their Debt of Honour page (at
http://yard.ccta.gov.uk/cwgc/register.nsf/searchpage?openform ) you will
be able to enter the name and initial(s) of the deceased into the search
engine, and hopefully you will then find out his regimental number,
regiment, rank, date of death, and where he is buried or commemorated. If
you are lucky, you may also find out his age, details of his next of kin,
and other useful information.

Hope that helps

Forrest


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Forrest Anderson, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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