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October's issue of Who Do You Think You Are? magazine carries a piece about the best ABW websites. Unsurprisingly, this site comes out on top.

Thank you, David, for the mention re the Tribute Medal Database.











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That is great, Neville. I had not seen that.

Many thanks for the images too.
David

Thanks for that Neville. No surprise that this site comes out on top.

Who Do You Think You Are? has not, in my experience, been up to speed on the Boer War and at the top of the page mistakenly states that Belmont is in the Orange Free State instead of Cape Colony.

In their programmes they have frequently been inaccurate with the worst one being with Bee Gee Robin Gibb whose ggf served in the ABW. The clown of a researcher confidently told Robin his ggf had received 6 bravery awards. These turned out to be 5 good conduct pay awards and one good conduct pay forfeit shown on his papers. It was no surprise that I received no response from the BBC. I also recall researcher mistakes in the programmes featuring Ian Hislop and Paddy McGuinness.