SOLDIERS DIED
IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-19
In 1921 81 volumes embracing every regiment and corps
of the British Army were published listing approximately
635,000 Soldiers and 37,000 Officers who died in the war,
and it is this immense undertaking which is now published
by The Naval & Military Press on one fully-relational
database CD-Rom. Soldiers Died on CD-ROM contains the complete
set of all 81 volumes with software that allows searching
of every element in each record. Searches can be executed
for Regiments, Battalions, surnames, christian name(s),
initial(s), born (town), born (county), enlisted (town),
enlisted (county), regimental number, rank, killed in action,
died of wounds, died, theatre of war of death, date(s),
supplementary notes.
Searches of element(s) can be made by one or as many elements
as you wish. For example, you could search for every soldier
who died of wounds on the second day of the Battle of the
Somme, every soldier killed at the Battle of Ancre, all
the soldiers born in Belfast, all the men killed in actions
in France and Flanders, all the men died in India, all
the men with the surname Buckland. As you will see, you
will have at your fingertips what would have been months
of toil and a very hefty card index system on the screen
in a matter of seconds. The software package has been designed
with scroll down menu bars for Regiments and Battalions
and on screen buttons for you to click on with your mouse
for other elements within the search field to keep typing
to a minimum. In fact, if you can read and type with one
finger, however slowly, you will be able to use this database
to its full potential.
After completing your search you can view and sort the
data on screen and print out your results. We cannot emphasise
too greatly that this essential reference work has now
been transformed into a fully searchable cross reference
relational database. Investing in this CD Romt represents
a considerable saving of over £1000 on the cost of
the original books!
By using digital technology The Naval & Military Press
have created a permanent and substantial record of those
who fell during the years 1914 - 1919, when the Great War
was taking its heavy toll on the British Army, and this
will now be available to future generations in an easily
accessible format.
"Lest we forget"
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