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Originally Posted by janwhin
The Newcastle Journal of 14 June 1915 has Corporal J Dalby, of 7th Battalion NF, missing believed killed. On 11 July he is listed as wounded (Corp. J Dalby, 2397, Broomhill). And then on 18 September, the Journal reports that Corporal J Dalby, previously reported missing was now reported killed. Would this be the correct one?
It does show the confusion surrounding accurate reporting on the battlefields.
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That's him.
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/ca...DALBY,%20JAMES
We will never know for certain, but I think it's possible he has been seen to be wounded on the 26th April but never returned or picked up by some other allied unit which is why it has ended up like this. It is difficult to establish if wounded men have died out in no man's land or been taken prisoner until the Red Cross reports. If there was no witness then he should have been 'missing' from the start. It looks like the Army have been reluctant to move away from the wounded status without proof.
He would have be in the British counter attack near St Julien on this date.
If we can find the field returns for that period it would perhaps shed some light on it.