New Ancestry files - updates

Ancestry have just added the following 2 catalogues:

British Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945
British Army Prisoners of War 1939-1945


They are just information cards, which probably won't include any additional details for those of you who are already well underway with your research, but if you are just starting out and you believe a relative in the army was killed or PoW, then this is a good resource.


I'm happy to do lookups for forum members, so just reply to the thread with the name you want looked up and from which catalogue.



EDIT: Unfortunately I no longer have an Ancestry.co.uk subscription so cannot do any more lookups, however you may find one or two other kindly members here who will instead.

 

Well at least I know what I will be spending my evening doing

 

Interesting - but shame it's not the POW questionnaires from TNA.

 

Paul

How do I pinpoint the file I need at the NA.

I've just got the service no and pow no of the person I want. Going to the NA next week and it would be great to nail it for a good friend of mine (his Dad was captured)

Robert

 

Robert

See this information sheet from the PRO http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/2jan2005.pdf and more information at The National Archives | The Catalogue | Research Guides section 9.

They are filed in Alphabetical Order.

Hope this helps

Chris

 

Chris

Many thanks for that. Having read it, obviously no guarantee a questionnaire was completed.

Regards - Robert

 

Interesting - but shame it's not the POW questionnaires from TNA.


I'll second that Paul.
If ever a class of document needed to be online it is this one.

 

Absolutely.

Robert - it is true he might not have compiled one, but they are pretty comprehensive and well worth a look for the sort of information it gives.

 

Paul

The guy I'm after helped in the attempted escape of a friend which sadly ended up with him being shot. He might have been interviewed about the circumstances of this event, so you never know. I also have an NA reference of a file about the shooting of a prisoner whilst trying to escape at his camp. It might be the same event.

Robert

 

Paul

The guy I'm after helped in the attempted escape of a friend which sadly ended up with him being shot. He might have been interviewed about the circumstances of this event, so you never know. I also have an NA reference of a file about the shooting of a prisoner whilst trying to escape at his camp. It might be the same event.

Robert

Robert, one of my South Lancs Guys was murdered after trying to escape. he was brought back to the camp and then taken away and shot, along side a Royal Marine.

The shooting was subject to a war crminal trial, the file for which including witness statements, I managed to get from Kew. Culshaw, was the South Lancs guy, cant remember the name of the Marine off hand, so it may be worth looking in other corners as well as the POW files

Phil

 

Robert, one of my South Lancs Guys was murdered after trying to escape. he was brought back to the camp and then taken away and shot, along side a Royal Marine.

The shooting was subject to a war crminal trial, the file for which including witness statements, I managed to get from Kew. Culshaw, was the South Lancs guy, cant remember the name of the Marine off hand, so it may be worth looking in other corners as w
ell as the POW files

Phil

Phil

Was the WD ref you looked at WO311/121 by any chance. It's described as shooting of POW at Stalag IXC.

 

Phil

Was the WD ref you looked at WO311/121 by any chance. It's described as shooting of POW at Stalag IXC.

It was probably TS 26/618 .

 

It was probably TS 26/618 .

Thats the one Brian, but then again you should know

Private Culshaw - South lancs Regt
Marine Howard - Royal Marines

Both murdered on 11th October 1943, with war crimes trial in Feb 46

P

 

Phil

My guy was killed not long after 9 November 1943, so I will still look at WO311/121. They were trigger happy it seems.

 

Hi thanks for the offer. Could you please look up Pve. D.Toye RAMC in the POW records.

Dominic

 

Hi Dominic,

Unfortunately there is no camp listed. I'm not sure why that would be

Name: D. Toye
Rank: Private
Army Number: 14364253
Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps
Record Office: Royal Army Medical Corps and Army Dental Corps Record Office, Colet Court, Hammersmith, London, W6
Record Office Number: 30

 

Hello I wonder if you can help with this one.my uncle Harold Rush was killed by the germans while a prisoner of war in poland I have his grave site in Krackow
coll.2C 1-14
his title was driver Rush H 79219 RASC and he apparently died on the 20 august 1944
I wonder if there are any pow camp records for him.Regards Steve Rush Queensland Australia

 

Steve,

I'm not managing to find a hit with this chap. It could be that his name was transribed incorrectly - though I dont have a hit for his service number, and I have looked through likely RASC candidates with similar names, but no luck.

Also, this list only contains prisoners in Stalags and Oftags - is it possible that he could have been in an airmans camp by mistake? I don't know if this was a common occurance or not.

I suppose it's also possible that the details held by CWGC are incorrect?

Chris

 

Thanks for looking,Harolds father Thomas Rush got the MC in ww1 and it took me 3 years to find out why,so I will just keep ploding along.

 

Steve,

I'm not managing to find a hit with this chap. It could be that his name was transribed incorrectly - though I dont have a hit for his service number, and I have looked through likely RASC candidates with similar names, but no luck.

Also, this list only contains prisoners in Stalags and Oftags - is it possible that he could have been in an airmans camp by mistake? I don't know if this was a common occurance or not.

I suppose it's also possible that the details held by CWGC are incorrect?

Chris
Hello I finally found my uncle it seems he was held in a pow camp near auschwitz which was bombed in 1944 by guess who Harold died along with 38 other British pows.there is a plaque near the site with all the names on,