Hello Valerie Many of the war diaries from WW1 have now come on-line. For a small fee, you can download them, or certain months of your choice from The National Archives. I've had a quick look and 9th Battalion of West Yorkshire regiment is available. Reference is WO95/1809. If you go to this link below, you should see an option to take you in and enable to buy for yourself if you wish. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/war-diaries.asp Regards Ellen Spence Valerie Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: In trying to trace information on my G t Uncle Sydney TOWN who died 27th Sept 1916. He is commemorated at Thiepval and in Morley I am keen to locate the war diaries of the 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regt (Prince of Wale's Own). Although I believe it may be a contact in York I need I have been unable to find anything for email or snailmail. I wonder if anyone on this list can help? It is exactly 90 years since he died , I have recently found a photo of him and wish to fill in more detail if I can. Hopeful of a clue to follow up Valerie ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello Ellen and thanks for your help. I was eventually able to see a mention of the document you mention. I cannot see any way of ordering, no prices mentioned nor facility .I just get There are no items in your shopping basket. Without your help I would not have got near as it just went back and forth . How do any of you ever get a document? I realise I am too tired now to struggle more tonight. I got the medal card earlier but more is overwhelming. I am in complete admiration of you for making sense of the mass of info available, but I cannot see how to get what I need for 1914 - 1916. I will have to sleep on it and try tomorrow. Thanks for your help Valerie Subject: Re: [ENG-YKS-BRADFORD] War Diaries > Hello Valerie > > Many of the war diaries from WW1 have now come on-line. For a small fee, > you can download them, or certain months of your choice from The National > Archives. > I've had a quick look and 9th Battalion of West Yorkshire regiment is > available. Reference is WO95/1809. > > If you go to this link below, you should see an option to take you in and > enable to buy for yourself if you wish. > http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/war-diaries.asp > > Regards > > Ellen Spence > > > Valerie Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > In trying to trace information on my G t Uncle Sydney TOWN who died 27th > Sept 1916. He is commemorated at Thiepval and in Morley > I am keen to locate the war diaries of the 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regt > (Prince of Wale's Own). Although I believe it may be a contact in York I > need I have been unable to find anything for email or snailmail. > I wonder if anyone on this list can help? > It is exactly 90 years since he died , I have recently found a photo of > him and wish to fill in more detail if I can. > Hopeful of a clue to follow up Valerie > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Valerie The page link I gave you was a list of the ones they have available on-line at present. In order to obtain the relevant unit, you have to input the reference in the search bit. If you follow the link that I have put in below, I have taken you to the point where all you need to do is click on the add search part of the diary you want and then you can it to the shopping basket. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/search-results.asp?searchType=quicksearch&mediaarray=&first_date=&last_date=&CatID=2&pageCount=15&query=wo+95%2F1809&queryType=1&pageNumber=2&sortSpec=Score+desc Like many of the diaries, due to the intense activity, each diary is listed per month, and that is £3.50 each. September 1916 is the one that is the most relevant to you. However, I should warn you that your relation's name is not likely to be mentioned in this unless he was an officer, or performed some valiant act that would lead to a medal. Anybody in the ordinary ranks that are killed in action are listed by the number that died, so it might read someting like KIA 3OR. If you know his period of service, you may want to download each diary month by month, which could then make it more expensive, depending on his length of service. Sometimes, you can find that there are published regimental histories or individual battalion histories, which help you to know which battles he fought in and where. Some are on CD, others you might find in a second hand or specialised bookshop. At Kew, the service records are listed on microfilm. About a third of those from WW1 survive. To see if there are any papers for him you need to either go yourself, or ask a researcher to go and look him up for you. If they do survive, there can be some very interesting information on his medical history, his conduct, previous addresses prior to joining up, any family, where he enlisted and paticulars such as height, weight, chest measurement, colour of eyes etc. WW1 is a study area all in itself and quite fascinating to those of us who had ancestors out in Flanders or Gallipoli giving their all for their country. Best Wishes Ellen Valerie Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Ellen and thanks for your help. I was eventually able to see a mention of the document you mention. I cannot see any way of ordering, no prices mentioned nor facility .I just get There are no items in your shopping basket. Without your help I would not have got near as it just went back and forth . How do any of you ever get a document? I realise I am too tired now to struggle more tonight. I got the medal card earlier but more is overwhelming. I am in complete admiration of you for making sense of the mass of info available, but I cannot see how to get what I need for 1914 - 1916. I will have to sleep on it and try tomorrow. Thanks for your help Valerie