Hi Kara The wording France & Flanders is a general one for the theatre of war, not specific to where a soldier was wounded or where he died Its on most if not all who died on the western front War death certificates also usually use general wording, died of wounds, or of disease or whatever, not the specifics of the event Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > also come up in Ancestry 'Military' search results are the UK, > Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919 additional (to CWGC) info > states died of wounds, Western European Theatre place of death France > & Flanders - the apparent oddity of having died in two places is > probably where he was wounded as well as where he died. The Battle of > the Somme took place 1 July - 18 Nov 1916. The third phase from 15