What about Free to Air cricket and Le Tour? Too much decent sport is now behind or going behind paywalls.

Not the foggiest. A bit like Q!

Send me some names and I will run them through what I have.

The 371k includes officer and ORs, and some RAF as far as I can work out and they all have some service post 1920. As this collection includes many officers who served in WW1, its lack of priority is appalling.

The data on the 1.5/1.2 million is based on a search of only WO 423, using Discovery.

The 317K includes Hubert Gough. Born 1870, died 1963!!!!!!!!

As far as I am aware, they are just working through the mountain of records. They haven't applied much thought to the process. The 371k should have been done first, especially as they should all be open.
As for the metadata, it lacks key pieces of information & Q are not providing effective advice.

TNA no longer have the tech or the tech support to generate copies from the microfilms.
If you consider film v digitisation I have a number of concerns which I will share with you. the next time I see you. Suffice to say, trust in the digitised version is questionable.

The originals in WO 363 and WO 364 were never made available at Kew.
The filming was done at Kew. The originals never left the country.
The microfilm is the accessioned copy for preservation purposes.
Getting your hands on an original box of WO 363/WO 364 is a very rare occurrence.

Thanks for the young bit. I may look and feel young however, you are the younger!

I not that far behind you old man!

Thanks Simon.

Very true. Trying to use online resources to find them is challenging. The poor quality of the age calculations and the creativity of the old fools wishing to join up, makes the research interesting.
I am interested in men who had to be at least 56 in 1914.

I believe it is an interesting place. The bookshop is good too!

In the absence of his AF 3121, the failure of that recommendation, probably at the hands of the Commander in Chief of the BEF, based upon the advice of the relevant Military Secretary in the field, puts and end to the matter.

Thousands were recommended for an award and got nothing.

I took almost 8 years part-time to complete my PhD and was doing a job when I started. I must admit I left my job at TNA before my PhD was finished and also moved over 300 miles from my source material.

I can't offer much advice but you are always welcome to ask.

We get skies like this!

Better than the flightpath into LHR!

You and I are now in peaceful parts of the world.

Is that where you told me about when we last met? Nice.

Now that I am beyond corrections etc, I am reading this. I am very interested in various issues this book covers, especially war crimes from 1982, and institutional memory.