WW1 remembering family members

you can narrow the search down on the everyman remembered site by regiment , place etc, but the chances are someone on those 33 pages will be a relative . you can pick one who comes from part of the country your family lived and commemorate them. You can find the cemetery and take a tour round and see the names , ages, etc of the dead. its all very moving.

Have just looked at my maiden name on the cwgc site to see if there were any possible brothers of my paternal grandfather. Despite the name being fairly uncommon now there are 33 pages. With the law of averages that's a poignant reminder of the numbers involved. So not much hope of finding any.

I think you click on "commemorate someone you know" and fill in their name , but I found its better just to put the surname and not the forename as well, even if you know it, as sometimes they are registered in just an initial or initial and the computer won't recognise the full name, it will then search the database, which is from the Commonwealth War Graves commission , and you can hopefully then pick out your family member, it took me several attempts to find my Great Uncle, but I did find him and it had details of his parents, their address, his date of death and so on. Very moving. I managed to post some photos I have as well. Its not a very user friendly site, but I did manage to negotiate it.

Have just tried to use it and found it quite a problem. It was difficult to find out whether it wanted you to search or input information. I tried both and got nowhere.
I find the Commonwealth Wargraves website very useful.
www.cwgc.org
You can see photos of the cemeteries and which battles were fought close by. It's very sobering to look at, particularly the ones like Thiepval, with 72192 identified casualties buried there.

My great uncle as well, from the US. I have a handkerchief he presented to my grandmother upon his return from the theater, now framed and treasured. Sadly, I never met him; he never recovered from the war and committed suicide thereafter.

And my two great-uncles, who died within a few weeks of each other. In civvy life, one was a sign-painter, the other a piano tuner, neither of them naturally soldier material.

Thanks suzied I will add my Great Uncle too.