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Originally Posted by Karateman

The newspaper cutting says he was a member of the United Methodists church Moscow Mill st Osw, and is on the roll of honour there. So I was wondering if it had been "saved", parden the pun, when the church was demolished. Surely something so important and poignant to the people of Ossy and Accy wouldn't have been destroyed.....

Phil

Until Bill Turner & I started rescueing these Rolls of Honour, you'd be surprised at the number that had been lost or stolen. Some people were surprised that we wanted to take them away. As I said, luckily we collected most of the names over the last 25 years, they are now in DBase 4, over 15000 entries, a heck of a lot are duplicated names, because some men appeared on as many as four Rolls of Honour, or Memorials. A lot of newspaper reports mentioned that a man was on a Roll of Honour, yet he wasn't.When Bill first started researching the Pals in the early 1980's, very few knew much about them, it took a lot of work digging out the information, people grew up little realising that the old man who lived in their street, had fought in one of the bloodiest battles ever seen. WW1 July 1916 & March 1918.

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