Dear Brian, Below is my Great Grandfather's details from the Nominal Roll. South Staffordshire Regiment Under the heading of NCOs and Men 48438 Pte. Goldwater, L., 1st Bn. As you notice, just initials. So looking for Jacob BARNETT is big task. You could of course try the Medal Roll of the National Archives, sadly it costs. Unless some kind lister who has ancestry.co.uk could check up for you. But there again their could be several soldiers of the same name. As an aside, several names below my Great Grandfather is that a soldier which has an asterisk between his initial & Battalion. This denotes he died during WW1. On what Regiment, just because he was living in Wales. Unfortunately you cannot assume that he joined a Welsh Regiment. My own Great Grandfather was born, Riga, then lived in Leeds & Glasgow. And was living in Newcastle upon Tyne married with 5 children. Yet he enlists firstly in to the North Staffordshire & later transfer to the South Staffordshires. On the price, second hand/used book stores would sell cheaper. But some Libraries/Archives might an original or even a reprint. John Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne little.blobby2@btinternet.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <ENFJBri@aol.com> To: <british-jewry@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [BRITISH-JEWRY] British Jewry Book of Honour - indexes > Thank you, Bryan. > > Let's see, as I understand it, this book has lists called "Nominal Rolls" > broken down for each Regiment, and those rolls ostensibly include every > Jewish > person who fought for England in World War I, whether they died or not. > Is > that correct? > > For us, the individual in question--Jacob BARNETT--was definitely not > killed, as he died in 1970. Nor do we know of any injuries. We're not > even > certain if he was in the War to End All Wars, but we had heard that he > was. If I > correctly understand what is being said in all these emails on this > topic, we > should be able to determine if he did fight in World War I by going > through > this book, regiment by regiment, looking for any BARNETTs and hoping > there is > only one Jacob BARNETT. Is that a proper understanding of what this book > contains? > > Does it give additional information, such as age or citizenship? Our > Jacob > would have been about 31 when the war broke out, and he had been in the > UK > since sometime before 1907 and after 1901. From at least 1907 on, he > lived in > Swansea, South Wales. <==Hey! That could be a clue as to the > regiment--right? Wouldn't he be associated with some Welsh regiment? > > Brian Neil Burg > Fullerton, CA, USA > > In a message dated 6/28/2008 6:42:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > bryan@bjdiamond.plus.com writes: > > <I have a copy of the "Book of Honour", 1922. It has a list of those > killed, Officers then men,alphabetically, then those awarded medals, > then from p 189 the Nominal Rolls by each Regiment. > Finally at pp 611- 636 an index to the following Illustrations > [portraits], and the captions to these give the regiments, so this > index is my first resource and may likely lead to the regimental list. > > <The index includes the portrait of my father Claude Diamond at plate > 303 and my uncle Wallter at Pl 28. > > <Bryan Diamond > <London> > > > > > **************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for > fuel-efficient used cars. > (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007) > Our website is at > www.british-jewry.org.uk > We update regularly. Let us know if you have ideas to offer. > > British-Jewry-admin@rootsweb.com is the address to use for help. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRITISH-JEWRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message