Scott Perry
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Grave at Tyne Cot -Stanley Harris
Hello, I'm from Canada, and I have just recently joined this forum because I've been doing some research on an individual who served with the 20th Battalion in 1916/17 and I thought that someone might be able to help me navigate a couple of mysteries that I've run up against. I apologize in advance if this is not the appropriate forum.
First, I must commend the archives in Australia. The amount of information about WW1 veterans that is online is quite remarkable. The Canadian archives, as an example, while they also have some great material, only have the first 2 pages of the attestation papers online, so I was pleasantly surprised to see the entire records available with the Australian archives.
Anyway, my question: I was visiting Tyne Cot last year and took a picture of the grave of Stanley Harris, #6444. He served with the 18th/ 20th Battalion. His grave has a Star of David on it, and yet both he and his brother #8407 indicate on their attestation papers that they were C of E. Moreover, there is a record that a photograph of the grave was sent to their elder brother in 1923 so I would have assumed such an error might have been uncovered. Does anyone have any thoughts about this? Perhaps an error by the IWGC? Or are their other sites that someone might refer me to where I could research this further.
My second question is around enlistment by Stanley Harris. He first enlisted in September 1915, but re-enlisted in February 1916. Does anyone have any thoughts as to why an individual may have had to enlist twice?
Thanks, Scott
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9/27/2009, 7:23 am
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