http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/03/16/red-cross-records-from-the-first-world-war/ Blog Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:01:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/03/16/red-cross-records-from-the-first-world-war/comment-page-1/#comment-2417 Tony Peterson Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:45:38 +0000 http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/?p=2290#comment-2417 Thanks for the blog. I have found the Red Cross Wounded and Missing files available through the AWM to be very interesting and useful. One example. George Edmund Challis 2165 of the 46th Battalion went missing at Bullecourt on 11th April 1917. The Red Cross file was initiated through an inquiry from A E Challis and runs to 22 pages. Through these pages we learn of his wounding, the false hope that he is imprisoned and finally the decision that he is pronounced killed in action. Additionally it provides confirmation of family links both to brother Arthur and father William "who also is in France". We also learn in one of Arthur's letters that he is "expecting to go overseas any day now having classified as a signaller." I got more than I expected in that one. Thanks for the blog.
I have found the Red Cross Wounded and Missing files available through the AWM to be very interesting and useful. One example. George Edmund Challis 2165 of the 46th Battalion went missing at Bullecourt on 11th April 1917. The Red Cross file was initiated through an inquiry from A E Challis and runs to 22 pages. Through these pages we learn of his wounding, the false hope that he is imprisoned and finally the decision that he is pronounced killed in action. Additionally it provides confirmation of family links both to brother Arthur and father William “who also is in France”. We also learn in one of Arthur’s letters that he is “expecting to go overseas any day now having classified as a signaller.”
I got more than I expected in that one.

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