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boar war AWOLs
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Robyne | Report | 23 Aug 2005 20:51 |
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Hi My gg grandad went AWOL from the BOAR war and joined the foreign legion, promptly changing his name. is there anywhere to look for soldiers who went AWOL? I only have a vague idea of what his name was before as my nan cant really remember |
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Jane | Report | 24 Aug 2005 10:20 |
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It might be a bit of a long shot what with foreign legion, but you could try putting his name into the National Archives online catalogue search to see if they have anything obvious. Whilst the NA/PRO has microfilmed records of WW1 soldiers (with the odd record of a captured deserter!), they also have paper/boxed copies of soldiers records pre-dating that and filed by regiment ... the latter being the challenge usually! What do you think? Regs Jane |
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