Sorry to be a pain today. I am having trouble using the SE. I am looking for men in 72nd Medium Regiment RA. When I enter '72' and 'Medium' and use the drop down unit menu for RA I get nothing. If I don't use the drop-down it still says no results. What am I doing wrong?
001 ADAMS, RE 14375871 24/10/1944 002 BANNISTER, GA 14291240 23/07/1944 003 BLAKE, AT 969489 26/07/1944 004 BLAKELEY, JF 1140256 28/03/1945 005 BRODIE, TA 805066 23/08/1940 006 CASSON, SE 969497 30/09/1942 007 CONABOY, T 14368432 08/02/1945 008 CRAIGIE, FF 893618 24/05/1945 009 ELLWOOD, FR 966055 08/02/1945 010 FENSOM, RW 87570 21/07/1941 011 FINCH, LS 1578457 08/02/1945 012 FIRTH, JSK 14373816 26/07/1944 013 GIBBONS, J 14290673 08/02/1945 014 GUNN, W 1074948 08/02/1945 015 HOLLINGS, WRO 1089694 02/04/1945 016 HOOD, JWS 318409 14/07/1942 017 LYNES, FA 969535 18/07/1944 018 MALLETT, AC 6083671 08/02/1945 019 MAYHEW, EG 14374955 29/01/1946 020 MORRISSEY, GE 1089786 26/07/1944 021 O'BRIEN, TD 293418 18/11/1944 022 PARKER, AD 72567 16/12/1945 023 PEARCE, HF 11006188 26/07/1944 024 PRIOR, RG 14508961 18/07/1944 025 PYE, RC 222682 10/12/1942 026 RANDLE, JN 966293 08/02/1945 027 SUTTON, FH 946561 17/07/1944 028 SYMONS, JS 33370 26/10/1944 029 TOLLIDAY, HC 966483 08/02/1945 030 TOMLINSON, W 933882 11/04/1945 031 TURRALL, JE 194690 17/07/1944 032 WATKINSON, KFE 94293 17/07/1944 033 WEBBER, RF 14290867 26/07/1944 034 WHITE, A 937431 01/04/1945 035 WILLIAMS, R 818573 18/11/1944 036 YOUNG, GF 969592 11/06/1941
The reason I was interested was this quote from the BBC site: Once when we heard someone had been killed, we found out it was twins that had been killed. They were expert athletes and were in their prime and they had won everything within the Regiment, boxing any sport they went in for - they won it. But to know that they had been killed it just wasn't right. BBC - WW2 People's War - D-Day: 72nd Medium Regiment Royal Artillery Doesn't seem to identify them, however.
Thought I had twins then but alas no CWGC :: Casualty Details Name:WHITE, ALLANInitials:ANationality:United KingdomRank:GunnerRegiment/Service:Royal ArtilleryUnit Text:72 Medium Regt.Age:26Date of Death:01/04/1945Service No:937431Additional information:Son of Fred and Christina White, of Workington, Cumberland; husband of Mair Eluned White, of Wrexham, Denbighshire. His brother, John Jardine, also died on service.Casualty Type:Commonwealth War DeadGrave/Memorial Reference:55. D. 14.Cemetery:REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY CWGC :: Casualty Details Name:WHITE, JOHN JARDINEInitials:J JNationality:United KingdomRank:PrivateRegiment/Service:Border RegimentUnit Text:6th Bn.Age:23Date of Death:31/01/1940Service No:3602008Additional information:Son of Fred and Christina White, of Workington. His brother Allan also died on service.Casualty Type:Commonwealth War DeadGrave/Memorial Reference:Sec. 3. Div. M. Grave 71.Cemetery:WORKINGTON (SALTERBECK) CEMETERY
What am I doing wrong? Make sure you put the data in the correct field. Easily done wrong. 72 med should be in the unit text field. I've done this wrong a few times! I have had a problem on rare occasions when it seems to ignore data entered into a particular field and you get incorrect results since the field did not apply any filtering. Odd one that. geoff
Make sure you put the data in the correct field. Easily done wrong. 72 med should be in the unit text field. I've done this wrong a few times! geoff Ah-ha - that was it. Thanks very much, Geoff.
Doesn't seem to identify them, however. 33 of the 36 of these records have the phrase "son of....", I could apply my 'Brother Finder' to these. ("son of...." is very common, but "brother of...." rarely found, even when a brother also fell) There are also two more attached to this unit, Jervis, Army Catering Corps and Fletcher, Royal Corps of Signals. Neither of these fit as brothers within the unit. geoff
I fear that the vet in question may have got this wrong. Easily done after so many years. However I ran the finder for the 73 regt men against all other casualties - no match was found. geoff
Geoff I continue to admire your "Geoff's Super Search" as it would more appropriately named The other day I was wondering what, if anything, putting "Jew" into the UNIT TEXT box would produce and apart from several men from the Palestine Rgt and Jewish Brigade Group it threw up "HMS Jewell". Just out of interest, what effect does the inclusion of inverted commas have ? Thanks Ron ps Having posted this, I did what I should have done in the first place and consulted your HELP facility. I now see under Unit text Enter text to identify the battalion, ship or unit. Do not enter too much text, less is usually better and avoid using . or ". Observe spaces. Some GOOD examples: 4th bn 2nd/4th 50th bty lusitania Good Hope
Ron, I continue to admire your "Geoff's Super Search" as it would more appropriately named Yes it is rather "super" init. Just out of interest, what effect does the inclusion of inverted commas have ? Yes, it tends to mess things up and find nothing. Quotes gets converted to " - which is the HTML version. Very few people bother to RTFM, so quite a few searches fail. (they are all logged into a log file so I can see how the thing is running). cheers, geoff
