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    Default Great War - Roll of Honour

    Has Been published on Nottinghamshire County Councils website here:

    https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/rollofhonour

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    Hi Mitch,
    this is a list of grave locations for names, but I couldn't see a great lot of details online so could be quite frustrating trying to find the correct person.

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    Hi Dominic,

    Yes its a new listing - and a work in progress - but Nottinghamshire doesn't appear on the roll of honour.com website.
    I have already found one of my missing relatives from the list, on a memorial just 2 miles from where I am!
    The press release is interesting:

    The Nottinghamshire Great War Roll of Honour

    31 Jul 2013 - 15:00

    A permanent tribute to the local men and women who died during the First World War will be unveiled today (Friday Aug 2).

    The Nottinghamshire Great War Roll of Honour, funded by Nottinghamshire County Council, lists the names of the men and women who lost their lives in the 1914 – 18 war.

    The Great War Roll of Honour, available at www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/rollofhonour is a project that aims to correct historic injustices by finally paying homage to the fallen and creating a unique, centralised archive for researchers, historians and the general public.

    Until now, no list of Nottinghamshire’s Great War dead has ever been compiled and many communities did not keep written records of the 1914 – 18 losses.

    The project has involved collaboration between eight groups of volunteer information gatherers and Nottinghamshire County Council.

    Lead volunteer Dr David Nunn said: “The Roll of Honour is work still in progress but currently online is an account of Nottinghamshire fatalities based on raw material gleaned from more than six hundred memorials constructed during the conflict’s immediate aftermath.

    “The volunteers have collected information from village and town memorials in chapels, churches, churchyards, parish halls, factories, schools and sports clubs as well as stained glass windows, lychgates, post office plaques and parish halls.”

    Memorials to the Great War dead have also been found at Nottinghamshire Police headquarters, County Hall and a number of local companies like Boots and Raleigh.

    The data compiled revealed facts like 75% of the casualties were under 30 years old, 90% were soldiers, 9% sailors, 1% airmen and 70% were killed on the Western Front.

    David said: “The Great War devastated whole communities across Nottinghamshire. It changed British society for ever and nothing was ever quite the same again.”

    Phase II of the Roll of Honour hopes to see individual stories expanded and brought to life through the addition of biographical detail, narrative, photographs and newspaper extracts as well as entries from diaries and letters.

    Dr Nunn added: “Names at present unrecorded or missing will be added in due course. Public contributions to Phase Two, likely to get underway in November, will be requested.”

    The Roll of Honour project is linked to Trent to Trenches – a series of events being organised across the county in 2014 to commemorate Nottinghamshire’s contribution to the Great War.

    Nottinghamshire County Council leader Coun Alan Rhodes said: “As an authority we are proud to be associated with the Great War Roll of Honour as more than 11,000 men and women from Nottinghamshire lost their lives.

    “We owe each and every one of them our heartfelt gratitude and it is important that this Roll of Honour pays tribute to them and is a point of reference for families and historians alike.”

    If you have comments to make regarding the online data please get in touch via [email protected]

    ENDS

    For further information please contact Jen Sheriston on

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    Heard on local radio that part of the work in progress is to check for duplications, where one person recorded on memorials of more than one village/place of work.
    Been following this on the radio for a while, pity I don't have any Notts relatives

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