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From: "Tony Eames" <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] WWI Medals reply from National Archives
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:05:34 -0000
References: <005001c5290e$371a7950$6401a8c0@MARLOW>


The problem:
1. TNA has filmed the front of all the cards.
2. Only 1 in 300 has data on the reverse.
3. That data could be immensly valuable, and should be saved.
4. There are 5-6 million cards.

A solution?
5. I know that my uncle's card has something on the back, because
"PTO" is written on the front!
6. It should therefore be possible for the films to be scanned fairly
quickly to find the others marked "PTO".
7. The full name & service number of these could be noted.
8. As all the cards are filed alphabetically, it should be
comparatively easy to identify the relevant ones, and discard the
rest.

IF sufficient interest could be aroused (probably among people able to
get to TNA and/or Hayes, Middx.), it should not be too difficult a
task to extract and record this potentially valuable data.

Just a thought.

Tony Eames
(in Devon!)
SoG 003101



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