Genealogy Chat

A small amendment to my earlier post.
It seems that the soldier was wounded around D day,and repatriated to Southampton, where he died, and the reference IS his.

thanks for the replies and comments.....
and thanks to Kathleen for info in her Pm's
Bob

Flick - a clarification.
If a serviceman died during war time, then his death WAS war related.
This would be true even if he was run over by a bus whilst on leave.
The only difference being run over in Paris or Parton makes is that the former would be rego'ed in the War Returns Register, and the later in the normal way in Whitehaven RD with a copy to the GRO.

The bodies of UK service personnel who died overseas were not normally repatriated - of course, this doesn't apply to planes or ships returning to base with dead crew on board.

You won't find a UK civil registration for the death of an overseas War casualty.

The CWGC site will have the details - IF the man's death was War-related.

The site includes civilian casualties of WW2

I don't think the death would have been registered in Southampton if he died abroad. Have you looked at the armed forces deaths on Findmypast?

If you want to give a name I can have a look for you.

Kath. x

This soldier died abroad I believe, and I can only find a reference that "Fits" ( age name and date ) in southhampton?

could it be that the port was where his body was repatriated to? and thus registered there?

If the person died in the UK the death would be registered where they died.

If they were in the Armed Forces and died abroad during the war, the death would have been registered by the regiment/ship etc and the records are listed under WW1 or WW2 deaths.

If you point your cursor at "Search Records" you will see these and other options.

If a war death occured in the UK it would be registered in the normal way. E.g., say a Canadian solder was wounded in the trenches and was shipped back to a hospital - for Canadians, these were mostly around their base camp at Shornecliffe - so if he then died of his wounds, his death would be registered in Folkestone Rego District, Hospitals for UK soldiers were scattered around the country, so their situation would be similar and their death would be rego'ed in the district where it occured. (This would be true even if their death was caused by being run over by a bus.)

If a UK serviceman or woman died overseas, their death was registered in a special register for war deaths. These registers were kept for the Boer War, WW1 and WW2. They have their own index which has been transcribed by FMP, but not Ancestry nor FreeBMD. The GRO forwarded copies to GROI, GRONI and GROS deaths applicable to them. These war register d.certs are typically less informative than the usual uninformative English d.certs. You can see (Scottish) examples using the links at the end of the page at:
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/Content/Help/index.aspx?r=554&404

Deaths are registered where the death took place so maybe they were away from home at the time,

my gran died in 1942 and lived in Doncaster but died in stocton so the death was registered their

Roy

If someone dies in a war, where is the death registered?

I have someone that died in 1944, and the nearest that I can find is registered in southampton, while his parents lived in dagenham essex.
he is listed on the CWGC site aged 19.and I know where his grave and memorial are....

I am looking for another person that goes missing, possibly a war, maybe a civilian death....

thanks Bob