SOLDIERS DIED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-19
CD-ROM Version 2.5
A complete and
searchable digital database of Soldiers who Died serving in the British Army in
WW1.
There can hardly have been a family in Britain which was not touched in
some way by the tragedy of the First World War, the “Great War for
Civilisation”. Great Britain, alone among the major European nations, went to
war in 1914 with an army based on voluntary enlistment, numbering just over
247,000 at the outset with 486,000 Reserves and Territorials. By November 1918
almost a further 5,000,000 had enlisted, over half of them volunteers. For the
first time since Napoleon, Britain had become a nation in arms and, in January
1916, for the first time in the country's history, conscription was introduced.
The war developed into one of attrition as the allies strove to break through
the formidable enemy defences and, by the end, casualties on both sides were on
a scale hitherto unparalleled. In 1921, 81 volumes embracing every regiment and
corps of the British Army were published listing almost 662,000 Soldiers and
41,000 Officers who died in the war, and it is this immense undertaking which is
published by The Naval & Military Press on one fully-relational CD-Rom.
First issued in 1998, its fully searchable format allows flexible interrogation
of over 703,000 records. Its publication rewrote the rulebook and placed the
Naval & Military Press in the forefront of serious military publishing. This
highly-acclaimed CD-ROM has gone on to sell several thousand copies. Since
publishing the original Version 1 disk in 1998, Version 1.1 in 1999 and version
2.0 in 2004, operating systems have advanced significantly, so we have taken
advantage with this new pressing of the disk to make substantial and worthwhile
improvements. Geoff Bridger, the editor of Soldiers Died in the Great War
CD-ROM, has been working with the raw data since Version 1 was produced and we
have now been able to incorporate many corrections to the original data. A
complete overhaul of the functionality has been carried out by XRM, the database
engineers, under the guidance of Geoff Bridger, and Version 2.5 incorporates
many features and improvements that existing users have requested. Version 2.5
Improvements FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH WINDOWS XP TO WINDOWS 7 DATA • Over 10,000
amendments have been made to the data. • Known typographical errors corrected –
‘Pre & Post War' death dates corrected. FUNCTIONALITY • Important addition
of a Note Pad feature for each record enabling your own notes to be added,
edited and printed with main record. • New facility to search using the powerful
Boolean Operators, ‘And' ‘Or' ‘Not' thus providing far greater flexibility. •
Date of death search facility improved. • Facility to save and merge search
results and subsequently recall all data when required. • Facility to delete
chosen records from search result prior to saving. • Facility to delete
previously saved records from personalised list. • Advanced sort features allow
you to order by chosen consecutive preference over the 15 search fields. •
Facility to transfer saved searches and Note Pads between computers. •
Simplified and easier to use indices for Regiments, Theatres of War, and Ranks.
• Victoria Cross now standardised to ‘VC' to avoid wild card searches also
giving cases of R.A.V.C. (Royal Army Veterinary Corps) and A.V.C. • Search
screen appearances tidied up and improved. • Inclusion of Safe Disk™. •
Rewritten comprehensive guidance notes on how to get the very best from the
CD-ROM. • Redesigned packaging and disk face. • Lifetime accidental damage
warranty, conditions apply. By using digital technology The Naval & Military
Press have created a permanent and substantial record of those who fell during
the years 1914 - 1919, when The Great War was taking its heavy toll on the
British Army, and this will now be available to future generations in an easily
accessible format. “Lest we forget”. CD-Rom Minimum System Requirements: The
minimum system requirement suggested to run this CD-ROM is a Pentium (or
equivalent) PC, 12X CD-ROM drive, 64MB of available RAM, SVGA display (thousands
of colours or more), 48MB free hard disk space and Windows™ 7, 8, 10 or VISTA
Recommended System Requirements: The recommended system requirement is a Pentium
III PC with 48X CD-ROM drive, 512MB of RAM and an SVGA monitor.Please note this
Product is not MAC OS or LINUX Compatible.