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Trying to find Hill
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Gordon | Report | 2 Mar 2005 22:41 |
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Hi! I'm trying to trace George F. ARNFIELD, who served in the 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment during the First World War. He was listed as Killed in action on the 31st November 1917, but I cannot trace a Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry for him, nor can I trace a Death Certificate issued for him. I know he was born in Abergavenny, but other than that I have very little other than his Regimental Number. Most of the First World War Army records were destroyed in the Blitz. The possibilities are he was taken Prisoner of War on the 31 Novemeber 1917 and later returned to UK, but the records are very scarce, and he may well have lived and married and had children later. The other possibility is that he was killed, and the records were never completed. If this is the case, he is one of many men in the First World War who are unaccounted for even today. There is no name on a memorial or a grave, and I am trying to find out the truth, so if he was killed, at least the record can be put straight and he can be commemorated like thousands of others, rather than simply disappearing. If anyone has any information, I would be most grateful. Gordon |
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