From my town. - Page 2

geoff501 · 22-03-2008, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by von Poop

Other than by a farly tortuous manual proccess I've not found a way Geoff. As the headings of search results like those are all the same the Vbulletin software will pick 'em all up as the same and post as so, even though the links are different.

Cheers,
Adam

Rich Payne · 22-03-2008, 07:34 PM

Geoff, is this extraction of a list with burial places a straightforward matter ? I would like to put one together for 2nd Northamptons to compare with the list in the Battalion history. Interestingly, your engine is coming up with 263 casualties and the book only has 232.

Cheers,

Rich

geoff501 · 22-03-2008, 11:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rich Payne

Geoff, is this extraction of a list with burial places a straightforward matter ? I would like to put one together for 2nd Northamptons to compare with the list in the Battalion history. Interestingly, your engine is coming up with 263 casualties and the book only has 232.

Cheers,

Rich

Rich,

Mostly straightforward, a bit of manual tweaking needed. Here is the list:

http://www.hut-six.co.uk/WW2/2ndNorthantsatRestWW2.html

cheers,

Geoff

Rich Payne · 23-03-2008, 12:02 AM

Thanks Geoff, that's wonderful. I owe you a beer ! It has saved me hours. My Grandfather always spoke of Anzio in an almost reverential way. When I look at where their casualties fell, I can understand why.

Now I have to re-read the official histories with the list handy.

This is probably a bit cheeky but can your system create a list based on date order ?

Cheers,

Rich.

geoff501 · 23-03-2008, 12:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rich Payne

This is probably a bit cheeky but can your system create a list based on date order ?

Damn cheek, we're talking malt whisky here, not beer

I believe I've sorted on service number before, so date should be no problem.
some of the 'between' dates may be a problem but I think there are only a few in this list. - however, a job for tomorrow. (yawn)

Geoff

Rich Payne · 23-03-2008, 12:20 AM

Geoff, you're a true Gent, I've got a very decent bottle of Caol Ila open at the moment if you're in Belgium in the near future

Cheers,

Rich

geoff501 · 23-03-2008, 10:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rich Payne

Geoff, you're a true Gent, I've got a very decent bottle of Caol Ila open at the moment if you're in Belgium in the near future

Cheers,
Rich

Rich,

Here it is. Looking at the code this morning I see I had already added the feature to sort by number or date - but there was a bug in date sort , so useful for me also.

http://www.hut-six.co.uk/WW2/2ndNort...WW2bydate.html

cheers,

geoff

Rich Payne · 23-03-2008, 02:50 PM

Thanks once again Geoff. Date order makes the campaigns much clearer. I shall now try to plan a route using the 1940 dates.

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22-03-2008, 07:34 PM	#12 (permalink)
Rich Payne Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 621	Geoff, is this extraction of a list with burial places a straightforward matter ? I would like to put one together for 2nd Northamptons to compare with the list in the Battalion history. Interestingly, your engine is coming up with 263 casualties and the book only has 232. Cheers, Rich

23-03-2008, 12:02 AM	#14 (permalink)
Rich Payne Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 621	Thanks Geoff, that's wonderful. I owe you a beer ! It has saved me hours. My Grandfather always spoke of Anzio in an almost reverential way. When I look at where their casualties fell, I can understand why. Now I have to re-read the official histories with the list handy. This is probably a bit cheeky but can your system create a list based on date order ? Cheers, Rich.

23-03-2008, 12:20 AM	#16 (permalink)
Rich Payne Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 621	Geoff, you're a true Gent, I've got a very decent bottle of Caol Ila open at the moment if you're in Belgium in the near future Cheers, Rich

23-03-2008, 02:50 PM	#18 (permalink)
Rich Payne Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 621	Thanks once again Geoff. Date order makes the campaigns much clearer. I shall now try to plan a route using the 1940 dates.

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