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Subject: Re: "German railways shunt English into sidings" Posted on: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:03:09 +0000

On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:54:10 +0000, Graeme
wrote:

>In message
> Charlie Hulme wrote:
>
>> Graeme wrote:
>> > In message <1lqre17fjptig.1784aparl1fkv$.dlg@40tude.net>
>> > Chris Tolley wrote:
>> >
>> > [snip]
>> >> A different inconsistency: Most people reckon WW1 to be 1914-1918, but
>> >> there are many memorials that give the dates as 1914-1919.
>> >
>> > That bit, at least, is easily explained, the fighting between the Allies
>> > and the Central Powers ceased on 11th November 1918 but that was just an
>> > armistice, the formal end of the war came with the signing of the Treaty
>> > of Versailles in 1919.
>> >
>>
>> And servicemen died in 1919. Consider 2nd Lt. Gerald Adam from
>> Stockport:
>>
>> http://www.stockport1914-1918.co.uk/soldier.php?name_id=4
>>
>> "Although an Armistice had been signed in November 1918, the War
>> was not officially over and, in April 1919, a British force was
>> sent to fight in the Russian civil war against the Bolsheviks.
>> Gerald was killed during the fighting but the circumstances are
>> unclear."
>>
>
>IIRC British involvement in the Russian Civil War continued until about 1921.
>
ISTR there are a few WW1 war memorials which consequently show a date
later than 1919.

Regarding appearance and non-appearance on memorials - many (most?)
WW1 memorials seemed to be organised at local level by whoever set up
the fund; in some cases there can be duplication due to more than one
memorial committee counting a casualty as one of theirs. The
"qualifications" varied from strict to generous so one place might
have excluded someone because of "bad character" while others could
include casualties who had already moved away or children of
emigrants.

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