Warwickshire, Coventry Blitz, German Air Raids 1940-1941
On the 80th anniversary of the Coventry Blitz FMP adds lists of 2,471 casualties with names, addresses and more in a transcription of key information, plus an image of a contemporary typed casualty listing.
There are five lists in all covering the air raid dates:
14th/15th November 1940 (568 killed)
7th January 1941 (6 killed)
8th/9th April 1941 (451 killed)
10th/11th April 1941 (101 killed)
4th/5th June 1941 (2 killed)
In each case, names and addresses are given, followed by details about where the person was treated. This might have been at a First Aid Post or at a hospital. Some people were treated and sent home, others were detained in hospital.
British Armed Forces, First World War Soldiers' Medical Records
Additional records giving the names of injured soldiers, military details, and where they were treated with admission and discharge records from over 20 hospitals, field ambulances, and casualty clearing stations during the First World War. The collection now totals 1,333,477 records from The National Archives’ series, MH106, War Office: First World War Representative Medical Records of Servicemen. I noticed several serving with Canadian forces; there is no nationality search.
National School Admission Registers & Log-Books 1870-1914
Over 17,000 more Yorkshire school records sourced from the Calderdale Family History Society are added to this collection which now has 9,246,566 records. Additions are for the following schools:
Brighouse National
Brookfoot
Clifton
Elland Edge
Greetland
Rastrick
Southowram
Yorkshire Baptisms
Over 6,000 new baptism records from St Simon’s Church, Sheffield added to this collection that now totals 9,193,484 baptisms, many with linked images.
Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions
Over 4,600 more church records from the West Riding of Yorkshire for a new total 206,132 records. The churches covered are:
Charlestown, Hebden Bridge, Mount Olivet Chapel
Langfield, Mankinholes Chapel
Luddenden Foot, St Mary
Lumbutts, Free Methodist Chapel
Midgley, Methodist Providence Chapel
Mount Tabor, Moor End United Reform Church
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