MasterDabber
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I saw this reported on the BBC News this morning
These newly discovered archives deal with the capture, death, or burial of servicemen from over 30 nations drawn into the conflict; personal effects, home addresses and grave sites cover page after page.
All were passed to the Red Cross by the combatants; volunteers logging the information by hand before sending it on to the soldiers' home countries.
Apparently at the start of the war there were 12 people in Geneva doing the inputting, by the end there were 1,000!
Unfortunately it's going to be a while before they become generally available as the digitising processs is only just starting.
These newly discovered archives deal with the capture, death, or burial of servicemen from over 30 nations drawn into the conflict; personal effects, home addresses and grave sites cover page after page.
All were passed to the Red Cross by the combatants; volunteers logging the information by hand before sending it on to the soldiers' home countries.
Apparently at the start of the war there were 12 people in Geneva doing the inputting, by the end there were 1,000!
Unfortunately it's going to be a while before they become generally available as the digitising processs is only just starting.