Genealogy Chat

As some of you will know on occasions i post information on obtaining photographs of headstones for military personnel who died in both World Wars, both a free site and one where you have to pay.

For the first time this week i have used the free site and i have to say i received the photo by email within 24 hours of my request, which i thought was fantastic the photo was very good, also sent was a overall picture of the cemetery.The people who are doing this it is a labour of love, they are to be congratulated.

So if anyone who has someone who died i the wars here is the link, whilst it is mainly the actual headstones they have photographed,but as you know there are many who died who have no known grave are just listed on a Memorial, but they may have the panel on which their name is listed

Link

http://britishwargraves.co.uk/index.htm


Just in case you would like the pay site, which i know the photos are of professional quality and very good.I also know that for those who do not have a known grave and are listed on a memorial they have photographed the panel and also the actual bit where the persons name is engraved.

http://www.twgpp.org/index.php


George

Just nudging this so that it's in my threads.

Thank you,George.

Maureen

Thanks for this George. Have just looked at the pay site and have found my great uncle whose memorial is in Basra.

A friend who was working in Basra during the Iraq war tried to get a photograph of the panel on the memorial for us but didn't manage to get there before he returned home, and we thought that there would be no chance of getting a photograph.

Now I can order either a hard copy or an emailed copy. I am over the moon.

Thanks again for the link.

Kath. x

British War Graves site now book-marked. Thank you.

Thank you for this site.

Thank you George I have contacted them to see if they have anything on my OH maternal gran s brother who died in Turkey in 1916 .
Would be lovely if they have . I do have his death cert which is something .

COR that was quick !! just had a reply and they havent a photo as yet but said to keep checking .

Shirley

Gosh that was quick, was this from the free site i mentioned?or the pay site

, the pay site does have over a thousand plus photos listed in Turkey.

George

Kath

Thats a good result for you, im sure you will be well pleased with the photo etc.i know the ones i have obtained from the pay site are brilliant.


George

George it was from the Free Site. i did look on the pay site and put his name in search but it didnt find him , Found 3 with similar names ie not the right second christian name but not the one i would like .

You are right George - a brilliant result. I have ordered a hard copy as I figured it would be much better quality than I could print from a home printer - especially as the person who took this particular photo won the Professional Photographer of the Year award in 2009 which is a bit of a bonus.

I'll let you know what it's like when it arrives. Do you have any idea of about how long I will have to wait as it doesn't say on the website?

Kath. x

Kath

mine took about 8 days, looks like you will checking the post daily like i did. We are an impatient lot aren't we :-D


George

Thanks George. It means that I can forget about watching for it this week at least.

You are right about being impatient. I don't do much family history research these days. Just come on here to pass a bit of time but if I do find something new then I always want it delivering yesterday. LOL.

Kath. x

thank you for this very interesting and helpful

Thank you for this information.

I have just sent off a request for any phot of my Great Uncle's grave or memorial.

He was an early casualty in WW1 having been killed on 7/11/1914. I have his details from the CWGC of the cemetery in Belgium where he was buried and it showed up on the site as one of where all graves and memorials have been photographed.

Allan

A quick update.

Came on the computer this morning (04.30 Western Australian time) and there was a reply email from my query, tiogether with a phot of my Great Uncle's grave, and a general view of the cemetery.

It may have helped that I did have all the info on my Uncle's grave from the CWGC.

However, I certainly never expected such a swift response. What a marvellous site

Allan

Hi Allan

So glad you have a result,I'm always a bit wary when i recommend something. Although i had the same result you have had, but never confident until someone else gets the same result.

As you say a marvellous site.

George

i will revomend the

http://www.twgpp.org/index.php

site any time thay are very good and updateing there records all the time
and i have also been a volantier for them and been in all my local cemeterys and took photos of war grave.

so please if any of you have some spaer time please get in touch with the site and see if there is any cemeterys in your eara that thay that still need photos taken of war head stones

with out the .twgpp.org site i wound nether been able to see my grandads head stone he died in ww1 and is in germany my mother has now got at lest a photo of his head stone as well for the father she nether realy new as he got killed when she and her twin sitster was only 3 years old

so please please if you have time try and help by geting intouch with the site and see if you can be of some help to them

shelly

:-) :-)

I would echo Shelley's post about CWGC stones in your local area. I took photos of a small group of stones of airmen killed in a Lancaster crash and submitted them to the TWGPP, together with a photo of the church. They might have been missed by other volunteers as they are in a country churchyard.

I also submitted the pictures of most of them to the Canadian Virtual War Memorial, which is similar to CWGC website, but does have the facility for photos, including the family being able to add photos of their loved one.

Have a happy day.
Elisabeth

Just wanted to say another "thank you" to George. I received the photos from the TWGPP this morning and I'm very pleased with them indeed. Although they had warned that the memorial in Iraq had been moved and damaged in recent fighting and that some of the plaques were damaged, luckily my great uncle's name is on an undamaged part of the plaque.

The photo of the memorial itself shows army vehicles in front and armed soldiers so it gives a sense of danger the photographer was in as he took all the photos whilst he was there (he is a soldier himself).

Thanks again George.

Kath. x