How many ANZACS were born in your town or village in the UK or around the World?

I cannot see that I have posted this before however it is quite interesting and another site that the Australian National Archives have put together from available information for free.

It shows where and how many ANZACS were born overseas and the town or village that they came from. Does this for England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales as well as a general overseas area.

Mapping Our Anzacs

For example:

If you click on overseas then England then the flag at Leicester it will show 147 places with each one showing how many were born in that town or village.

How many were born in your town or village? I would be interested to know.

 

Great site Spidge, I would be interested to see how many Australian soldiers were born in New Zealand and vice versa.

 

Was that Percy John Barnes?

 

I am absolutely amazed at the number of Americans there were.



John.

 

52nd Bn AIF ( Aussie local , Purton war memorial ) - Great War Forum

Percy John Barnes has come up in one of my searches as being born in Purton Wilts as well.

His file has been digitised but will not open however I cannot find any further info on him.

Seems he survived the war.

 

Well that surprised me!

Burnley, Lancashire - 88

(nearly as many as the Canadians we had... 119)

 

I am absolutely amazed at the number of Americans there were.



John.

Quite strange.

There were seven from St John in Canada who were all different surnames so no family migration.

 

Geoff,
What's the criteria for inclusion, do you know? I was surprised NOT to find this man ... relative of husband. Rostrevor, Co. Down, on the North side of Carlingford Lough.

Regards,
Diane

This is him here.

There are apparently 11,114 that they could not decipher the place name or could not match the spelling to a particular area. They seem not to be A1 on geography as a quick glance shows me a number of places I know.

However:

There is a search feature for those in "unknown or unprocessed places":and this is yours:

Mapping our Anzacs

Cheers

Geoff

 

Diane,

What do the numbers mean

There is also an explanation here as it seems it will be a continuing work to allocate many of these 11,000+ names to their location.

Send them an email and see what the response is.

I was surprised that there were not more from Ireland however their numbers would have been a generation before after the potato famine.

Cheers

Geoff

 

Cheers Spidge, I understand now - just didn't know if/where else to look.

It's the Parish of Kilbroney [not Kilbooney]... in other words he was born in Rostrevor. Anyone I should contact? Have B & D certs.

I don't think you would need to go that far however a copy of the birth would clinch it for sure. I can't believe some of the places they could not find.

As Von Poop said,

Can you imagine the accents in that army!


Cheers

Geoff

 

The next time I hear someone on GWF speak down at the AIF about their unruly, load mouthed, undisciplined behaviour I will give them a mirror to look at.

Cheers

Geoff

 

Diane,

This is their contact page.

Contact us

I think they would welcome the email.

Cheers

Geoff

 

Great site, Us Brits (Government) have a long way to go to catch up with the Australians when it comes to WW2.

No one listed in Catford or Lewisham