Dear fellow list members, I have long battled with a personal brick wall as regards a great uncle who just seemed to disappear from the planet at an early age. I have a photo of him in his mid teens in the mid 1890's and then nothing. With the help of the 1911 census I found his mother, (my great grandmother), and she lists that she had four children and three were living at that time. This is the first hint of anything having happened to my great uncle but I can't find a death listing in the BDM lists. My question is in two parts. Is it true that someone killed in a military setting isn't listed on civilian death records? Is there a Boer War website which lists those killed in the service of their country. Cheers and Happy Easter to all, Kerry from Brisbane. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4002 (20090411) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com

Hi Kerry To the best of my knowledge there is no one single site such as the CWGC which covers Boer War deaths War deaths are recorded in separate GRO indexes and as you found not with the usual BMDs You can access them at various sites but one has some of them free to access (it is a pay per view site though) http://www.familyrelatives.com/ Look for overseas records The following are two sites I had saved which may be of help http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Boer/ http://www.genealogyworld.net/boer/ Although the symptoms you describe seem to effect many of us, with people seemingly disappearing into thin air Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) > Dear fellow list members, > > I have long battled with a personal brick wall as regards a great uncle > who just seemed to disappear from the planet at an early age. I have a > photo of him in his mid teens in the mid 1890's and then nothing. > > With the help of the 1911 census I found his mother, (my great > grandmother), and she lists that she had four children and three were > living at that time. This is the first hint of anything having happened > to my great uncle but I can't find a death listing in the BDM lists. > > My question is in two parts. Is it true that someone killed in a military > setting isn't listed on civilian death records? Is there a Boer War > website which lists those killed in the service of their country. > > Cheers and Happy Easter to all, > Kerry from Brisbane.