Kate, You're right about WWI Australian records. But we didn't have the bombing like London. What precisely are you hoping to find? If you're thinking of something like the complete Australian dossier, I think you can forget it. The best you will probably get is medal cards. CWGC (War Graves) will have his death and perhaps parents or next of kin. You might try Googling his name in quotation marks or seeing if you can find a website for South Staffordshire Regiment. Peter in Sydney

Thanks for the reply Peter. I'm trying to determine where his battalion was fighting at the time of his death, and I had hoped for something like the Australian dossier. His parents are listed on the CWGC site despite being dead before the war started. I've been searching the regiment and the battles and can only assume that he was wounded and died some time later. Kate. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter R Booth" <pbo08596@bigpond.net.au> To: <NOTTSGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 3:10 PM Subject: [SPAM] Re: [NTT] WW1 records > Kate, > > You're right about WWI Australian records. But we didn't have the > bombing like London. > > What precisely are you hoping to find? If you're thinking of something > like the complete Australian dossier, I think you can forget it. > > The best you will probably get is medal cards. CWGC (War Graves) will > have his death and perhaps parents or next of kin. > > You might try Googling his name in quotation marks or seeing if you can > find a website for South Staffordshire Regiment. > > Peter in Sydney > > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Kate Thomas Alfred Boyington, 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment. Thomas was killed 22.11.1916 and is buried at Etaples.As you know his regiment - his medal index card is available (Regt No.18648) You can check on The National Archives to see if the 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire War Diary is available for Nov 1916 - that will tell you where they were in the line at the time and if you are lucky you might even find him listed. Some regiments did give names of other rank casualties I hope this helps John Mellors ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kate" <kcutting@alphalink.com.au> To: "Peter R Booth" <pbo08596@bigpond.net.au>; <NOTTSGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 4:48 AM Subject: Re: [NTT] [SPAM] Re: WW1 records > Thanks for the reply Peter. > > I'm trying to determine where his battalion was fighting at the time of > his > death, and I had hoped for something like the Australian dossier. His > parents are listed on the CWGC site despite being dead before the war > started. > > I've been searching the regiment and the battles and can only assume that > he > was wounded and died some time later. > > Kate. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter R Booth" <pbo08596@bigpond.net.au> > To: <NOTTSGEN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 3:10 PM > Subject: [SPAM] Re: [NTT] WW1 records > > >> Kate, >> >> You're right about WWI Australian records. But we didn't have the >> bombing like London. >> >> What precisely are you hoping to find? If you're thinking of something >> like the complete Australian dossier, I think you can forget it. >> >> The best you will probably get is medal cards. CWGC (War Graves) will >> have his death and perhaps parents or next of kin. >> >> You might try Googling his name in quotation marks or seeing if you >> can >> find a website for South Staffordshire Regiment. >> >> Peter in Sydney >> >> >> >> Notts Surname List >> >> http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message