For Terry Denham or other CWGC SME

Is there a way in which the CWGC web site can be utilise to identify the location of soldiers, from the same unit who died in the same action, buried within one cemetery or in differing cemeteries. For example;
soldiers of 12th KRRC who died on 20 Nov 1917, near Villers Plouich might be briefed in one of several local grave yards OR
soldiers of 1 R Hamps, who died on D Day and probably buried in Bayeaux cemetery; is there a way to identify them by name and then their location of their grave.

Thanx in advance

Stephen

Stephen

No you can't do this on the website.

Terry many thanks .........
and also thanx for your PM

Stephen

I'd recently tried to do the same thing, i.e. search for all those in the same cemetery, killed on the same date or from the same unit. I also concluded it wasn't possible but thought it would be an excellent search facility that the CWGC should consider implementing.

An option of searches like this, combining all these fields, would be a wonderful addition.

Tim L.

It would be nice to be able to do this on the CWGC website, but at least from an Australian perspective the Roll of Honour on the AWM site has a few more fields to allow you to enter search terms in which you can put in date killed & cemetery name.

Regards
Andrew

As others have said, it's not possible to do this on the CWGC site; a slightly "sledgehammer" approach would be to use Soldiers Died in the Great War (and the WW2 equivalent) to ID the appropriate regiment/batallion casualties by date, and then cross-reference them individually on the CWGC site.

"As others have said, it's not possible to do this on the CWGC site; a slightly "sledgehammer" approach would be to use Soldiers Died in the Great War (and the WW2 equivalent) to ID the appropriate regiment/batallion casualties by date, and then cross-reference them individually on the CWGC site"

Funnily enough I spent about hour last night doing exactly that. I'm off on Saturday with two guys who lost their great uncle near Arras in a trench raid. He is buried 10 miles behind the lines having been wounded but I found the other men killed that night in spread over three cemeteries just behind the front line where the raid was made, with a number being on the Arras Memorial.
It's not as bad as it sounds but then I was only looking for 40 men
Hambo

You can however use the Cemetery Report @ the base of an individual known Burial to find ALL CWGC Burials within that Cemetery,which can then be sifted to discover those of interest,It can be a long process as they are listed alphabetically not by Unit,but it is possible~if you are keen enough!