You will probably get many replies to this, but from my research in Kingston, Ontario: There was no record kept of who enlisted, nor who died from the city. When the Council started its memorial, they simply collected all the names from other institutions' memorials. There is no home address on enlistment papers in the early part of the war, so it is impossible to now know who lived in Kingston. (Next of kin addresses are asked for) Who should qualify to be on a memorial. If you were born there, but moved away many years ago? If you worked there, but lived somewhere else? If your parents lived there, but you enlisted before they moved there? If ... When the lists were put together was sometimes six+ years after the death. Widows had no means of support had to remarry and may well have moved away. Parents may have moved on. Who would remember one person. So, you are right, local memorials are very inaccurate - not only with names, but with spellings and ranks, though I have never found a decoration error! I speak from experience. My father is omitted from the Sanderstead, Surrey WW2 memorial, presumably because we had moved away when the names were added. Best wishes with your research, Peter, Kingston, Ontario