Glasgow Police Memorial included in TheGenealogist's War Memorials update

From TheGenealogist (www.thegenealogist.co.uk):

TheGenealogist adds new War Memorial records

TheGenealogist has added 56,924 new individuals to their War Memorial collection, bringing the total number of fully searchable War Memorial Records on TheGenealogist to over 665,000.

These fully searchable records have been transcribed and their location plotted to allow subscribers to find the names of ancestors that paid the ultimate sacrifice.

These War Memorials, from the UK and abroad, can provide us with useful details about our ancestors revealing organisations and places that they had belonged to.

●    War Memorials can divulge links to a community, village, town etc
●    Workplace memorials can tell us where they had worked before the conflict
●    Organisation monuments and plaques honour past members that fell
●    Former pupils and staff of a school or university are remembered at the institution
●    Names in a church, or other places of worship, tell us about religious affiliation

This release includes images from war memorials of a variety of shapes and sizes and have been fully transcribed. Covering the war dead from various conflicts including the Boer War, the First World War and World War II an ancestor’s inclusion on a memorial can be profoundly moving to find, especially as so many of the war dead will have no actual grave for us to visit. 

Comment: I asked Nick at TheGenealogist if any Scottish or Irish entries were included with the update. Nick kindly answered that the update includes additions for Aberdeenshire, Glasgow and Strathclyde. 

The plaque illustrated above (click to enlarge) is for Glasgow Policemen at Glasgow Cathedral (St Mungos or High), a memorial to the City of Glasgow Police, with the first named policeman on the plaque being D.C. Anderson.

(With thanks to Nick Thorne)

Chris

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