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But you might want to read some background information first.

The attached spreadsheet is the result of combining all known surviving Absent Voters' Lists for North Wales between 1918 and 1921.

 

No list is known to survive for Montgomeryshire, whereas 6 of the lists are from Anglesey, so it is possible to see men listed up 6 times.

 

The combined list has a total of 38488 entries, although this number contains about 3-4,000 duplicate names of Anglesey men due to the multiple lists.

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The 12 lists are as follows, with the date of its compilation, and an abbreviation used in the spreadsheet to show which list the data is sourced.

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A18S      Anglesey 1918 Spring                            

A19S      Anglesey 1919 Spring                            

A19A      Anglesey 1919 Autumn                        

A20S      Anglesey 1920 Spring         

A20A      Anglesey 1920 Autumn      

A21S      Anglesey 1921 Spring         

CB18A   Caernarvon Boroughs  1918 Autumn

CC18A   Caernarvon County      1918 Autumn

DC19S   Denbighshire  County   1919 Spring

W19S     Wrexham 1919 Spring

F18S       Flintshire 1918 Spring

M18S     Merionethshire 1918 Spring

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Notes: Although these are the nominal dates for creation of the lists, it is not uncommon to find men who had died as early as 1916 on some lists.

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Although the Lists are original documents, they do contain large numbers of errors in all data fields. Surnames, forenames and addresses are commonly mis-spelt, and have been corrected where there is documentary proof they are incorrect.

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Likewise service numbers and prefixes are often incorrect as are the names of regiments. Where Medal Index Cards and Rolls show different information, these have also been corrected.

Data which has been corrected by me is included in  square brackets [ ]. Such data is supported by Index cards or rolls, and is therefore correct, or suspected to be correct. The conflicting original data as originally written on the AVL remains in Squiggly brackets and/or in italics  { }. This data is known to be or strongly suspected to be incorrect.

Occasional data isfound which appears meaningless, but is retained with a [?] symbol along side.

Names highlighted in blue are , ore are strongly suspected to be duplicate entries for the same person. In the absence of different serial numbers, it is possible they could be father and son.

Names or data highlighted in yellow means that the original document is unreadable at that point.

Such names are worthy of further research to try to find that missing data.

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