Janet Dempsey

23rd November 2012

Identifying Heroes

The BT 99 (1915) Project

What is the 1915 Project About?

• No ‘Service records’ for WW1

• There is no single list of mariners for WW1

• BT 99 archive was broken up and dispersed

• We have 10% of the records in BT 99

• National Maritime Museum has 90% of years ending in 5

• All of the records for 1915 held by NMM and TNA

What do the records consist of?

• TNA = 98 boxes

• NMM = 678 boxes

• Approx 36,000 Crew Lists

• Approx 1,500,000 individual names

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The Work So Far

• Work with the NMM• Work with CLIP • Photograph collection• Set up dedicated website• Recruit volunteers• Create Record Series

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What we have Achieved

• Records in BT 400

• Records in BT 99 Approximately

• ¼ of boxes are currently allocated to volunteers

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The Results

• BT 99/3100 List 11

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QUESTIONS ?