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Great First Workshops (July 2015)

30/7/2015

Fantastic introduction workshops in Exeter and Barnstaple this week. The involvement of vast numbers of different nationalities involved in the war was sketched out. Lots of questions about how and why people were recruited and from where. Also lots of questions about what the war was all about. Interest in the effect that the war had on people and countries from which they returned after 1918. Lots to explore !

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CLC war graves progress

29/7/2015

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The fifth death certificate has arrived. We are seeing a familiar pattern now. This certificate is for a young man from North China – his name was Wu Ching Sheng, and he died of Tropical Dysentery and cardiac failure. Ford Hospital Plymouth is where he died.

We are now over half way in gathering the certificates, we have just three more to look for.

This is now becoming quite a difficult search – the last three names have been recorded under different spellings. I have also come across another Chinese name - someone called Fong C Wang who died in Plymouth in 1917. Unless he is Fu Wang – and has two death certificates – nothing surprises me now! I cannot match him against the list from Plymouth from the graveyard. I will have to revisit the Plymouth site.

I have just ordered Fu Wang’s death certificate – and for that I had to look at the following different spellings:

Fu Wang
Fu Wang Fe
Wang Te Fu

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India Resources

14/7/2015

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Great archive of information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission FOREVER INDIA project website. Has been added to out links in India Resources.

Don't forget to check out our suggested resources and add to them as and when you come across interesting projects or publications.
If you are starting to look at India in WW1 then good place to start.
Oli

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