War deaths query?.....

[ladybird]

A question please.

Would SP hold the death certs for personnel who died overseas in WW1 and WW2? If not who would please

thanks Sylvia

[ladybird]

It's ok, I just answered my own query

They come under Service and War Returns...no images though, this could turn out expensive!
Sylvia

[Tracey]

Hi Sylia

Im not quite sure if you already know the dates you are looking for but could http://www.cwgc.org help you to narrow it down if you dont ? and reduce the expense of the search on SP .

Just a thought

Tracey

[DavidWW]

It's ok, I just answered my own query

They come under Service and War Returns...no images though, this could turn out expensive!
Sylvia

Unfortunately, these WWI GROS records show only the name of the deceased, regiment and regimental number, cause of death - kia, died of wounds etc., and the theatre of war involved, e.g "F&F" for France and Flanders.

If you are fortunate, in the sense of the man concerned having a widow who then received a pension, or if he had served in the army prior to WWI, then there might be records of interest at The National Archives at Kew, - subject to the depredations of the Luftwaffe in WWII, - the so-called "burnt records" due to a bombing raid that hit the archive concerned, - but you would almost certainly need to engage the services of a professional researcher expert in these records in order to check the situation.

The Commonwealths Graves www site at http://www.cwgc.org/cwgcinternet/search.aspx might give information on next of kin, as might the various sites listing those who died in the "Great War".............

David

[ladybird]

Thanks Tracey and David

I have already checked the CWGC site. I was really hoping that the certs would have useful things like parents names
The links are too tentative at this stage to be getting Kew lookups, so will keep plodding.

thanks again Sylvia

[hudggy]

I got my grand uncles death certificate from Kew it only gave his Name rank number and KIA no other information.