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Re Post 32 all you have to do is look at Terry Carter's book on the 'Birmingham Pals' or Brazier and Sandford on 'Birmingham and the Great War' published just after the war.

If people make inaccurate statements about the Great War based on myths then they have to be challenged. Of course the Great War was a 'disaster of unparalled enormity' but, in agreeing with that, does not get historians very far. It is far more important to understand why that scale of death...

Post 29 is also in the business of perpetuating myths about the Great War. I do not know enough about the Scottish Highlands to comment but precise examples would help. If there wasn't anyone to marry how do you explain that if you take any large CWGC sample and look at wives in 'Additional...

Sorry - back to stats. 1. No Newfoundland 'Regiment' was wiped out in one event. At Beaumont Hamel 1.7.16 there were 91% casualties - probably the second highest of the day - but 'casualties' include wounded. None surviving from a Newfoundland town - highly unlikely. 2. British Army total of...

"The sentiment in question merely pointed out that a very large proportion in parades on both sides...would never be seen again" This is perpetuating the usual myths about the Great War. To use approximate Birmingham figures...... About 8% were killed. To use the accepted wounded multiplier of...

If he is listed on the Birmingham Roll there is a rank and regiment given. Of the 66 A Johnsons in the CWGC database for 1916 I cannot find any killed on that date. Hill 60 is in the Ypres area of Belgium. La Boiselle is on the Somme in France.

Tony I have looked at a random sample of 400 names from the Birmingham Roll where I have place data. Not known is a street name with no district - I do not have time to look these up. So what it's worth. We must remember of course that the populations around the Outer Circle were quite low at...

I also have the book version. No Aston is rubbish. I have found 5546 names on the Birmingham Roll in the Commonwealth War Graves database. I checked the first 100 in my database - 8 have an Aston address. Whist doing this I had a quick look at Sutton Coldfield - their names are there as well.

Steve I have him in my database as one of thousands left off the Birmingham Roll because of the way the data was collected. Basically if a relative did not give details to the 'Lord Mayor's Office', where a record was kept, the name was not included. I am part way through this research and...

Post the details you have. I have the names of over 4000 Brummies missed off the First World War Roll because of the way the information was collected at the time. And I have not finished the research exercise.

Extras on Talfourd Street men in the Warwicks... 1. Samuel Shepperd is in CWGC as Shepherd killed 4.10.17 having been wounded on the same date in 1916.On the Bham Roll. Bham Weekly Post 10.11.17. Two brothers also on active service. Joined at the outbreak of war. Parents - Thomas L and...

Thanks Florence This memorial is now on the 6th floor at Fort Dunlop - Post and Mail offices. Covers both world wars.

Thanks Wendy - a bit different because of the six named Scouts

Sorry Rupert - you have been watching too much Black Adder and Oh What a Lovely War! All war is wasteful and the nature of the stalemate in the trenches and modern industrialised warfare made it even more so. But our own security would have been at risk if the German Navy had taken control of...

I have Wilcox/Aston church on my list. But any further details would be appreciated.

Thanks Tony

A while back I started a thread to get some reaction to the Centenary of the Great War in 1914. The Birmingham branch of the Western Front Association has started to collect information on Birmingham sites relevant to the period 1914-1918. We currently have 112. We may have missed some. War...

This might be a typo. I will have to double-check. No direct relation but we are all related to a Devon 'tucker' in the Middle Ages (occupational name)

Lieutenant William JosephSlim, 9th Battalion, Royal Warwicks 1891August 6 Born at 72, Belmont Road,Bishopston, near Bristol.The younger son of Charles and Charlotte Slim. Brother Charles later a medicalstudent at Birmingham University. 1903Family move to Birminghamwhere his father set up as...