The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

kinnethmont · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire

The new CWGC site went live this morning.
As with all complex sites, there may be minor glitches to deal with, but the whole thing is a tremendous improvement.

The biggest improvement is the facility to download any part of the database. You can take your selection to your own computer and analyse it as you wish.

http://www.cwgc.org/
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DerekR · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:25 am Post subject:

Big improvement. Laughing

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DelBoy · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:35 pm Post subject:

Excellent stuff.
The databse search options are great too, the "9 times mentioned in Despatches" option threw me a bit!

Glad they have taken their time and done it wright.

Derek.

David McNay · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 12:23 am Post subject:

One slight grump is that the "country" drop-down list of options only has United Kingdom, and no option search by individual countries within that - I have fed that back to them and they have acknowledged it - fingers crossed that gets changed.

Apart from that, looks like a great redesign. I've not had much of a chance to dig too deeply into it, and my PC at work (which still runs ancient Internet Explorer 6) couldn't get the site to work, but I like what I see so far.

David McNay · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 12:26 am Post subject:

Just noticed that the "search for a cemetery" option enables you to narrow it down to county - that'll be useful.

Strangely, I noticed that St John's Kirk Old Churchyard, Covington is listed but has 0 for the number of recorded casualties. Looking further in, it states there are six Polish burials there. Unfortunately they don't provide details of these.

Do you think they might add this information at a later date? That would be a useful resource.

kinnethmont · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:43 am Post subject:

This does look promising. I do like the sort of "drop down" list which appears when you start to input Rank or Regiment, and I do like the Filter Option (whiich can also be used as a basic search function)
I don't like the small size of font when you print out but that's a minor moan.
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anne park · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:23 pm Post subject: New and improved site

I tried it yesterday and again today so managed to find some info so hope that the promised updates correct the few faults.

geoff501 · Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 40 Location: Worcestershire

David McNay · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 10:54 pm Post subject:

Thanks Geoff, really impressive work there.

So the information on Polish and other nationalities is on the CWGC site but not generally accessible?

geoff501 · Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 40 Location: Worcestershire

kinnethmont · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire

geoff501 · Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 40 Location: Worcestershire

Geoff's search engine, still operational for searches on:

Ship/Unit text.
Age.
Citation.
Secondary unit text (useful for battalion and Labour Corps numbers).
Additional Info.
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WW1, WW2:
www.hut-six.co.uk/cgi-bin/search14-21.php
www.hut-six.co.uk/cgi-bin/search39-47.php
SNWM search:
www.hut-six.co.uk/cgi-bin/searchswm.php

Adam Brown · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:40 am Post subject:

Geoff

Many thanks for the link above. It will be of great help to the SWGP.

Kind regards

Adam

geoff501 · Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 40 Location: Worcestershire