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WW1 British Red Cross & Order Of St John Enquiry Lists For Wounded And Missing
====WW1 British Red Cross & Order Of St John Enquiry Lists For Wounded And Missing====
Naval & Military Press have published a number of facsimile reprints, in total 14 (9 for 1915, 2 for 1916, 1 for 1917, 2 for 1918)<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/?s=British+Red+Cross+and+Order+of+St+John+Enquiry+List+&post_type=product ''British Red Cross & Order Of St John Enquiry List For Wounded And Missing''] Naval & Military Press</ref> catalogued as ''British Red Cross & Order Of St John Enquiry List For Wounded And Missing'', however the titles on the book covers do not contain the word ''for''. N&MP state the originals are held by the Department of Printed Books, The Imperial War Museum, “who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist”. The IWM catalogue reference is "Enquiry list... : wounded and missing", part of Books, First World War, catalogue number LBY S. 6/767, and the holding details are 1915 (July-September), 1916 (February, September), 1917 (up to and including July 20th 1917, reprint), 1918 (October, December). Note: the catalogue, when re-searching, often did not locate the item. In addition, elsewhere<ref>[https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?q=Enquiry%20List%20Wounded%20Missing&rn=2 Library Hub Discover catalogue record for BRCS Summary of work 17.7.15]</ref> it is advised that a publication available at IWM catalogued as ''The British Red Cross Society. Summary of Work for the week ending… '' includes a “report by the Enquiry Department for Wounded and Missing”. These reports are catalogued by IWM as LBY BRCS B69- LBY BRCS B76 1914- 21 Oct.-4, 11, 24 Nov.-1, 5, 12, 19 Dec; LBY BRCS B77- LBY BRCS B87 1915- 2, 9, 16, 23 Jan.-6, 13, 20, 27 Feb.-6, 13, 27 Mar.; LBY BRCS B88- LBY BRCS B97 1915- 10, 17 Apr.-1, 8, 15, 29 May-5, 12, 19, 26 June; LBY BRCS B98- LBY BRCS B103 1915-3, 10, 17, 24? July-7, 21 Aug. LBY BRCS B104 Summaries of Work 11 September 1915 - March 1919. It is possible there may be additional IWM catalogue entries. The Red Cross Archive in London is stated to hold additional lists to those reprinted by Naval and Military Press,<ref name=BRC/> but details could not be located in the Red Cross Archive [https://museumandarchives.redcross.org.uk/explore online catalogue], so it is unclear under what title they are catalogued. The [[British Library]] catalogue details one list ''Enquiry List, No. 21, 1918. Wounded and missing... up to November 20th, 1918''(UIN: BLL01001129921). The Australian War Memorial Library holds copies, probably four, catalogued as ''Enquiry list : wounded and missing'' by British Red Cross and Order of St. John. (More details of these records.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20211115070725/https://vad.redcross.org.uk/en/~/media/BritishRedCross/Documents/Who%20we%20are/History%20and%20archives/Missing%20and%20wounded%20service%20during%20the%20First%20World%20War.pdf Missing And Wounded Service During The First World War] vad.redcross.org.uk, now archived.</ref><ref name=BRC> David_Blanchard et al. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/191464-british-red-cross-list-october-1918/ BRITISH RED CROSS List October 1918] ''Great War Forum'' 25 February 2013 et al. Retrieved 20 January 2022.</ref>). The reprints are available at The National Archives Library. <br>Fold3, an Ancestry related pay website has a database "British WWI Wounded And Missing", which is stated to be sourced from the Naval & Military Press, but which reprint(s) is/are included is not stated, or otherwise known. (Total records 158,041). The records are stated to be a "List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, South African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made". Forces War Records, a pay website, contains a database consisting of the 1 August 1917 List (List No. 14, 1917).
<br> '''Update''', c 20 November 2020. Findmypast, a pay website, has added a database (seemingly almost identical to that on Fold3), "British Red Cross..." <ref>[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-red-cross-and-order-of-st-john-enquiry-list-wounded-and-missing-1914-1919 "British Red Cross & Order Of St John Enquiry List, Wounded & Missing, 1914-1919"] Findmypast database.</ref> located in Military, Armed Forces & Conflict/First World War, total records 158,035.
<br>'''The data may possibly include regimental details not generally available elsewhere''', such as Battery number for Royal Artillery soldiers, and Company details for Infantry soldiers.
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