Remembering Today Casualty Stoker 1st Class HARDER, J W J Service Number D/KX 151835 Died 18/05/1944 Aged 20 H.M.M.L. 554. Royal Navy Son of Wilfred and Edith Maud Harder, of Okehampton, Devon. INSCRIPTION: OUR LOSS IS GREAT BUT WE HOPE IN HEAVEN TO MEET AGAIN THE ONE WE LOVED SO DEAR Buried at NAPLES WAR CEMETERY Location: Italy Number of casualties: 1190 Cemetery/memorial reference: I. G. 1.
ML.554 HARDER, John W J, Stoker 1c, D/KX 151835, DOWS Royal Navy casualties, killed and died, May 1944
HMS ML 554 (ML 554) of the Royal Navy - British Motor Launch of the Fairmile B class - Allied Warships of WWII - uboat.net HMS ML 554 (ML 554) Motor Launch of the Fairmile B class Navy The Royal Navy Type Motor Launch Class Fairmile B Pennant ML 554 Built by Frank Curtis Ltd. (Looe, England, U.K.) Ordered 28 Nov 1941 Commissioned Oct 1942 End service History Sold on 25 September 1956 For those who don't know, DOWS = Died on war service. Tim
UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960 Name: John William James Harder Event: Death Birth Date: 20 May 1923 Birth Place: Okehampton, Devon Death Date: 18 May 1944 Death Age: 20 Says accidental drowning Name: J. W. J. Harder Event: Death Birth Date: abt 1924 Death Date: 18 May 1944 Death Age: 20 Death Place: Jachia Ship: GREGALE Says fell overboard HMS Gregale, Malta - Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia TD
The top image states that [Ischia]- the second set of details is down to the normal level of intelligence posessed by those employed by Ancestry to transcribe from the original In case you missed it - the recent permissible access to the 1939 Register on Ancestry, having been transcribed by them shows my father William now being called Lillian, and born not in 1918 but in 1878, these will be the only 2 revisions [in the 1939 register] and the last I will be making for Ancestry on this or in fact any other database they have
As if to reinforce TD's point, I only found this record because Albert's surname had been correctly transcribed as Harder. 1939 REGISTER TRANSCRIPTION 15 Macey Terr,North Road , Okehampton M.B., Devon NAME DOB OCCUPATION Wilfred Horder 11 Oct 1896 Gas Main & Service Fitter Edith M Horder 18 Dec 1901 Unpadi Domestic Duties Sorry, this record is officially closed. Sorry, this record is officially closed. Sorry, this record is officially closed. Albert T Harder 16 Sep 1930 At School Sorry, this record is officially closed. Here's the original:
Sometimes wonder how you chaps cope. What with original mistakes by the enumerator compounded with transcription errors. Tim
From a test I did with Tony56, he checked my dads details via FMP and they had transcribed them correctly, - but thats not to say everyone transcription on FMP will be 100% correct. Its a part of the "so called fun" of finding someones details through the mists of time and error. Ancestry though I have say is becoming ridiculously error prone, and their latest software update - well theres not enough space, suffice to say yesterday I was looking for someone and in total I was told there was about 50 results, - great I thought thats narrowed it down nicely, BUT then when I open for example Family Trees (8 Records) how many family trees do I find........................ absolutely effing zero and that happened with some of the other categories that said they had results - grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr TD
I share your pain - to illustrate a big point with a little example, to track down my King's Own Scottish Borderers kin I now routinely look on Ancestry for King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry...