Genealogy Chat

Please could someone point me in the right
direction. Is there a free to view site for WW1
records. Thank you.

Emma

You can access WW1 service records on GR, ancestry and other sites. They are free if you have a subscription. I have to go to work now so cannot help further, but I am sure someone on here will help you more.
cheryl

Thank you Cheryl.

Emma

Can you please give details so that we can look for you

Or you could take a trial period on ancestry..... B UT you have to remember to cancel or they will automatically take the money from your account.

Hi Margaret have tried GR but have just standard membership.
Am looking for James Summers b1883 Fraserburgh d1915
France/Belgium 21/5/1915. On Ancestry there is a James Summers
died 1916. Thanks for your help

Emma

This is the James on Ancestry - he also on the CWGC site but that record has no more info than this one:

Name: James Summers
Birth Place: Drumoak, Aberdeenshire
Death Date: 22 Jul 1916
Death Location: France & Flanders
Enlistment Location: Aberdeen
Rank: Private
Regiment: Gordon Highlanders
Battalion: 4th Battalion
Number: 4616
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre

Do you have James's entry from the CWGC:

SUMMERS, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 34
Date of Death: 21/05/1915
Service No: 8538
Additional information: Son of the late Patrick and Mary Summers; husband of Catherine Kennedy (formerly Summers, Nee Gilhooly), of 43, Larch St., Dundee.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panels 24 to 26.
Memorial: LE TOURET MEMORIAL

Hi Potty, yes I saw that one. Will have to back track
and check all my details again. I appreciate your
time, thank you.

Emma

I can't find a Service or Pension record for him - only about 40% survive.

Didn't see the CWGC one, my Jame's parents were
James Third Summers and Mary Smith and James
b1883 would have been 32 in 1915.

Emma

This looks like it might be him........ ( Sorry I disappeared for a while....)



Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919 - soldier details
Name: James SUMMERS Memorial Scroll

Purchase scroll




Rank: PRIVATE

Initials: J

Birthplace: Dundee, Forfarshire

Residence:

Enlisted: Dundee

Regiment, Corps etc.: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

Battalion etc.: 1st Battalion.

4.8.14 Oudenarde Barracks, Aldershot: 1st Bde. 1st Div. 14.8.14 landed at Havre. 11.11.18 1st Bde. 1st Div. France; Fresnoy-le-Grand, S. W. of Bohain.




Number: 8538

Date died: 21 May 1915

How died: Killed in action

Theatre of war: France & Flanders

Supplementary Notes:

Hello Margaret well everything fits except birth place as on
certificate its Fraserburgh and it shows Dundee, not unless
he was living there and assumed when he enlisted he lived
there also.

Emma

Emma ....I have one that was born Bradford but his card says Blackpool !!!!!
I have James' medal card .... if you would like it could you please PM me an email adress..... unable to figure out any other way to get it to you.. tried copy /paste... doesn't want to know.

Hi Margaret will do.

Emma

Emma/Margaret

The Regimental No in the entry Margaret posted is the same as the CWGC one I posted (8538) and that one has the wrong parents for Emma's man.

Emma, where did you get your James's date of death from?

Hi Potty I have his death from a reliable source
who researched him as he is part of his family.
I could not find his death anywhere so I presume
this is correct!

Emma

Have resent you an email/// hope it arrives as 1st I had a connection blip.

Hi Margaret have replied, thanks again.

Emma