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OK, I admit that I was wrong.

It is NOT TRUE that records for deceased men cannot be found amongst surviving service records. There are plenty amongst the records on Ancestry.

Oh, isn't it great to see a message like that? Bless you, Dawn.

Yes i am very happy :) thankyou sooooooo much
you all are so great for helping us out like you do .
THANKS A THOUSAND TIMES OVER

Well i'am pleased to be of some use :-) so many people have helped me on here so its just nice to help others out :-)

I guess you're right, Flick, although I didn't think that they went through the records to filter out the ones who had died. I thought, perhaps, those that had died had been stored in a different repository that hadn't survived WW2. But once more I was wrong.

Great job, Milliemolly! You made Dawn very happy.

Oh i nearly didn't post that as i thought you were bound to have a photo , all i did was google his name and regiment !!

Well thats my good deed for the day :-)

MillemollyAmanda, thank you so much , i have had a look and am speechless hence typing instead,

what a treasure to have

Margee

The absence of the brother's records may be due to the WW2 destruction of 70% of all records

I can't honestly see Ancestry filtering out the ones for men who died...........imagine how long it would take to read every page of every record!

Have a look at this site ,there is a photo of him .

www.galleywoodfolk.com/parish

yep thats him , guess his service records never made it then , thanks for you help

Name: Samuel Charles Parish
Birth Place: Stanningfield, Suffolk
Residence: West Hammingfield, Essex
Death Date: 18 Apr 1918
Death Location: France & Flanders
Enlistment Location: Warley
Rank: Private
Regiment: Welsh Regiment
Battalion: 1/6th Battalion
Number: 55631
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre
Comments: Formerly 32237, Norfolk Regt

sorry to disapoint you but one of my relations died in 1917 and i got his records from there named eldred lee, so some of those who died do have service records out there.

I think Choccy is correct about no records for deceased servicemen but I have no proof. However I've never seen such records. For instance my grandfather's records are there but not those of his brother who was killed in the war.

Choccy

Where does that info about not including records for deceased servicemen come from?

Do they read every page of the records they transcribe and filter out those relating to soldiers who died?

thats him, the thing is with the 4 day free lookups on ww1 records on ancestry i have spent the last 2 days looking for him on there and have not found him only his war medal card, would love to read his service records.

thank you for your help

Ancestry records don't always show deceased soldiers' records -

70% of WW1 records were destroyed in WW2..the result of enemy action

Most of us have to accept that we will never find WW1 service records for relatives

Name: PARISH, SAMUEL CHARLES
Initials: S C
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Welsh Regiment
Unit Text: 1st/6th Bn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 18/04/1918
Service No: 55631
Additional information: Son of James and Mary Parish.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 77 and 78.
Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL

Please could some one help me ,
i cant find hin in ancestry on the free war records yet he died in 1918,
i have army numbers and regiments for samuel but can only find his medal records the following is listed on medals card in ancestry under samuel charles parish

Charles Parish reg no 55631 welsh reg

and reg no formerly 32237 norfolk reg

think he must have used middle name anything would be great