Soldiers Died, PoW’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regt) SB44 :: Rolls of Honour, Casualty lists and Genealogy :: The Great War :: Time Periods

In 1921 His Majesty’s Stationery Office published an eighty-volume set of books which recorded details of the Soldiers (who had) Died in the Great War. This series, which had been preceded in 1919 by a single volume that listed the commissioned officers who also perished in the conflict, was one of a number of contemporary publications which sought to commemorate those who had sacrificed their lives in the war. International events during the 1930s, culminating in the Second World War, deflected attention away from histoorical aspects of the Great War, and little interest in Soldiers Died existed as late as the 1970s. However, the burgeoning interest in family history which has developed since the mid-1970s led to increased demand for access to the series. This was initially met by Manchester Public Library, which sold microfilm copies of their set to a number of institutions and researchers. The release of the First World War medal rolls was a further boost to interest in Soldiers Died, and this was met by two attempts to reprint the set in hard copy, of which that undertaken by J. B. Hayward & Son in conjunction with the Department of Printed Books at the Imperial War Museum was successfully completed in 1989. ALSO CD-ROM Soldiers Died in the Great War ORDER NUMBER CDSD Soldiers Died is arranged regimentally, so that if the unit in which a man was serving at the time of his death is not known, it can be extremely time-consuming to trace his entry. In addition, other searches, for example of all the men born in Manchester who died in the war, were impracticable to undertake except by those with limitless amounts of spare time. This CD-ROM version, produced by Naval & Military Press, in which all the data may be searched by regiment, battalion, surname, Christian name, initials, rank, number, place of birth, enlistment and residence, date and nature of death, theatre of war and ‘supplementary notes’ - previous regiments, decorations, etc. - represents a major advance for those researching the Army dead of the First World War, from whichever angle they wish to approach it. The CD also includes the data on dead officers in a separate database. The availability of the data on 665,000 soldiers and 37,000 officers in ‘a complete and searchable digital database’ will greatly facilitate the work of those researching locality-based projects, such as men commemorated on civic war memorials. It also offers immediate benefits to one name researchers, and may well facilitate some new areas of study, among which may be mentioned the analysis of personal numbers. System Requirements: The minimum system requirement suggested to run this CD-ROM is a 486 PC, quad speed CD-ROM drive, 8Mb of RAM, SVGA display (256 colours or more), 4Mb free hard disk space and Windows™ 3.1, Windows™ 95/98 or Windows™ NT. The recommended system is a Pentium PC with eight speed CD-ROM drive, 16Mb of RAM and a SVGA monitor. The CD-ROM can also be used on Apple Macintosh PowerPC’s (200MHz plus) running SoftWindows or Virtual PC.

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Product Code:	SB44
ISBN:	1 897632 01 0
Format:	SB
Shipping Time:	Usually despatched Next Day
Our Price:	£7.00

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