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From: Janice <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] Royal Marine Light Infantry
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 16:33:18 -0500
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Hi Tom/Dave,
RMLI timeline indicates that in October, 1916 they were involved in the
Operations on the Ancre:

http://www.lightinfantry.org.uk/Regiments/Royal%20Marine%20LI/marine_timeline.htm
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kylet1/ancre.htm
http://www.1914-1918.net/63div.htm#oob

Hope this helps,
Janice
USA





----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Tulloch-Marshall" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [WW1] Royal Marine Light Infantry


> ref >" > Hi Dave/Tom, I'm a bit confusted as the CWGC states that Pvt.
> Nurse died on 8 October, 1916. I checked the Vis-En-Artois Memorial on
the
> same site and it states that the 9,000 names there are for those who
fell
> between 8 August, 1918 and the end of the war. So, how can this be??? >
> Janice > USA
>
> Janice - (I'm not quite sure where my last reply to David went - hasn't
come
> back to me from rootsweb ?). -- Anyway, you are of course correct with
what
> CWGC says about the memorial, - that's why I drew attention to the need
to
> be a bit careful when looking at men named there who had a date of death
> before 1918. The entries are real alright, and the dates of death are
> correct, but the very fact that the men are named on that particular
> memorial can (not always, but quite often) completely throw you off
track if
> you are trying to research their deaths.
> regards
> --
> Tom Tulloch-Marshall
> Great War Military Research
> Website > http://www.btinternet.com/~prosearch/index.html
>
>
>
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