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kiterunner
05-11-13, 07:24
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=5177

Only contains 59,418 records, so you may not find what you are looking for, but worth a look. This is the information they give about the database:

This database contains seven volumes listing civilians in the British Commonwealth and Empire who died during World War II and are commemorated on Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) memorials or buried in CWGC cemeteries. The Commission explains these records as follows:

“These volumes contain the Roll of Honour of those civilians, citizens of the Commonwealth and Empire, who were killed in the United Kingdom by enemy action during the 1939–1945 War, while engaged in household or in business activities, or at their posts as members of the Civil Defence Services. Their graves are scattered throughout the country.”

While most of these records are for the United Kingdom, they do include civilian deaths from around the world, including many lost at sea.

Langley Vale Sue
05-11-13, 08:24
Surely these are available free on the CWGC site?

kiterunner
05-11-13, 08:53
On ancestry you can view the actual pages of the book, whereas the CWGC site will just give you a transcription, Sue.

maggie_4_7
05-11-13, 13:40
Oh now I can get the image, a cousin of my OH. Thank you.

Bertie was 15 when he died in an air raid on Portsmouth.

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=UKCivDeathsWW2&rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=angs-d&gsln=Featherstone&msddy=1940&msdpn__ftp=Portsmouth&dbOnly=_F0005959%7c_F0005959_x&uidh=ek4&pcat=34&fh=1&h=41252&recoff=10+30&ml_rpos=2

Edit to say: Bertie's father Bertie senior Chief Petty Offcer DSM died the September before in the same year 1940 on HMS Esk; he is buried in Hamburg got my dates mixed up sorry to ruin your thread Kiterunner.

Langley Vale Sue
05-11-13, 13:50
Oh that's brilliant. I didn't think of being able to see the actual pages.
Thanks Kite.

Asa
06-11-13, 11:04
That's so much better than reading the transcriptions on CWGC (although I was grateful for that too) - my great grandad (in the AFS) is there and I can easily scan through and see all those who died with him.

maggie_4_7
06-11-13, 13:23
Yes I found another couple of members of OH's family I thought I'd found one person and then read down and more members of the same family are listed.