12-01-2008, 01:41 AM
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Originally Posted by geoff501 Lee,
From the cwgc.org website: "Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour During the Second World War, the Commission was given the task of compiling as complete a list as possible of Commonwealth civilians whose deaths were due to enemy action. The complete roll of some 66,400 names is bound in seven volumes and kept near St George’s Chapel in Westminster Abbey, where a different page is displayed each day."
The WW2 Civilian roll was requested by Churchill. In WW1, only military and war service deaths (mercantile marine, nursing, etc) were added to The Commissions roll. | Thanks Geoff 
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