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Hi Mike All of the names on the listing are the ones on the Memorial - non have been omitted. The names are those put forward by relatives or friends, so yes, there are a great number of men from Aston who don't appear on this Memorial. My own interest started when I was looking for my great...

Just so no-one continues to look, I have found W Talbot. :)

Sorry, it does feel like a bit of a moving feast! I am grateful for your continued work. The new listing details where I think we might have a duplicate with someone else on the Memorial so that the ones we are chasing are clearer. I shan't be doing any updates for a while as I am focusing on...

This one is already in the listing. I think there is every chance that W A Baldwin is a duplication of this, because like you I can't find a W a Baldwin.

Hi again. This address isn't Aston, so I can't include him, and I can't find any other Aston link.

Hi there. Yes, I found him myself yesterday. The Aston connection is the marriage to his wife Doris, so he's already in the updated listing.

Good afternoon everyone. Just to let you know I have updated the website astonWW1memorial.com. The Memorial Listing has ten newly confirmed entries, some of which are a direct result of your feedback, so thank you. I am unlikely to post to this thread again, but I will keep a watching eye on...

Found Wiliam Henry Parkes marriage to Florence Barke in Warwick, he was then based at Budbrooke Barracks. Gives his father as Barnet Thomas Parkes, and this has allowed me to locate the family in 1871 to Aston Road, Aston. So I think we have him!

Yes, I've just found that too. I am convinced this is our man on the Memorial, everything fits. He definitely saw active service in France, but as pjmburns notes, needed to have died for a reason that linked to his service to be on CWGC. The paper I had written on rules for CWGC, found on...

I think I've traced A T Barnett, (Arthur Thomas Barnett 1489 RWR) but it is a bit of an odd one. He has a pension record as having died 'other ranks' and address, marriage all in Aston, his wife on pension record. But there is no CWGC record. His attestation form says he was discharged 8/3/17...

Spot on, thank you. Lozells Road is Aston Manor civil parish. I know it's 1891, but I am using an address in Aston that the person has lived at, proving an association with the place. Likley, a relative gave his name to the Church.

Thanks John. Much the same as me then, multiple cross referencing!! :) I had wondered wether R Jay was R Ray - I think it's one to keep in mind. Where did you find the address for Eustace Judd? It's just that I keep notes of all of the sources for the information recorded on the listing, just in...

Thank you, as much as anything else for giving me food for thought on precision of entries. Having looked through the records again, I have concluded, like you, that this is probably the only likely candidate, even when looking at different spellings of the surname. As a Matter of interst, where...

Hi John I don't disagree with you at all. I am also convinced there are transcription errors. Some are obvious. Others are less so. An S B J Webb is possible - it might have been his full name known to his family but never used in written records. But I would definitely have looked at S Webb, or...

Hi John I've done been through them, with some success, as follows: Thomas Clarke 2799 aged 29 died 10/05/1915 wife Lavinia 4/155 Cromwell Street No, he is a Thomas W Clarke not T G as needed for listing. Alfred Cole 3182 aged 20 died 01/07/1916 39, Francis Street Francis Road, not in Aston reg...

Sorry, should also have said that I will amend this in the next few days. I have a few changes that need doing, and will accumulate them before doing a single update.

Good morning. Thank you for picking this up. I have looked again at my notes, and followed back through the records I accessed, and this is my error, and it should indeed be Arthur Edward. He was living with his brother at Whitehead Road, but I have found him with both parents in the 1891...

Dear John That is wonderful- thank you. It will take a little while to go through them, but I'll let you know how I get on. Today I received from a different source John Graham - it is definitively the right one, as I was sent a photo of his descendent besides the Memorial in the church. And...

Thanks. I can't see this file as I don't have a subscription to Fold3. But I have access to the summary of that record as I have Ancestry access, and it gives me the information I need to cross-reference, and I'll use the address you've seen. So thank you again, another bit of detail added to...

Hi there. I have been trying to trace the pension record you refer to, but can't find it. Could you possibly please give me the ful reference for the source you have found - it might help me to locate it. Many thanks Ann