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[charlie]

Pete has uploaded the latest database update on to the main site.
Charlie

[mack]

Mack
Have you anything on Albert Sefton. If he is Manchesters presumably 1st Bn but I reckon he is Loyals. PA 1796.
Thanks
Charlie

hiya Charlie
your correct,he was 8175 a.sefton,loyal north lancs

mack

[charlie]

Thanks Mack. I have found the Schofields, just where you would expect them to be indexed - under "Sheffrey". 

Charlie

[mack]

I don't know how you missed them,thats the first place I would have looked

mack
p.s nice find Charlie,patience always pays

[mack]

hiya Charlie
regarding the schofields,theres a 37763 joseph schofield amongst them,37763 isn't his service number,its his camp number,hes 43978 joseph schofield.

mack

[charlie]

hiya Charlie
regarding the schofields,theres a 37763 joseph schofield amongst them,37763 isn't his service number,its his camp number,hes 43978 joseph schofield.

mack

Thanks Mack, I'll bear that in mind. I seem to remember I have fallen foul of that before!

Charlie

[charlie]

Mack,
Do you have the Battalion for 202473 Frank Shields please.

Charlie

[mack]

hiya Charlie
frank shields was in the 2/5th battalion

mack

[charlie]

Thanks Mack

[charlie]

Mack,
I'm back again

Albert Silley PA 24006. Can you throw any light on him? He is listed as 18th Bn, the only Albert Silley in the MiCs is T2SR/01733 ASC.

Andrew Symonds PA 7732. I think he is Gloucesters.

Thanks
Charlie

[charlie]

Mack can you have a look at Henry Sinclair please. I can't find anything in the MiCs remotely like.

http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Details/2444582/3/2/

Charlie

[mack]

Mack,
I'm back again

Albert Silley PA 24006. Can you throw any light on him? He is listed as 18th Bn, the only Albert Silley in the MiCs is T2SR/01733 ASC.

Andrew Symonds PA 7732. I think he is Gloucesters.

Thanks
Charlie

your right Charlie,albert silley is the only one in the MIC but he wasn't a POW,i have searched through the absent voters lists for henry Sinclair at Dalton st,no luck,cant find him anywhere,symonds was gloucesters.

mack

[mack]

hiya Charlie
regarding albert silley,its just clicked after seeing his date of capture[18-5-16]he is pte 10452 albert,leo tilley,138 church st,newton heath,repat 9-12-16,he was actually taken on 13th may not the 18th,i did some research about the men from the 18th batt who were snatched by the germans in a raid on 13th may,10438 Edward prince was with him at the time.

mack

[charlie]

Thanks Mack,
I was pretty sure you would easily be able to identify Sinclair, in fact I would have put money on it, but that's why I don't do the Lottery

Do you have the Bns please for:

60438 Frederick Smethurst
43404 Henry Smith

Daniel Smith, have I got the right one with 9604? http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Details/1471583/3/2/

Thanks
Charlie

[mack]

here ya go Charlie

fred smethurst,2/7th batt
43404 henry,albert smith,WO/2.17th batt

9604 dan smith,dan died at Gallipoli,i did a piece about him on the forum about his last moments

mack
I,me checking the d.smiths,be back soon