User:GavinRobinson
From Linking experiences of World War One
Historian and palaeographer. I run Different Hand Ltd, doing manuscript transcription, XML markup, research assistance and related services. My PhD thesis and published work are on horses and cavalry in the English Civil War. I got into First World War research through tracing my great-grandad, who was in 1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment. I was a moderator at Your Archives and used to blog at Investigations of a Dog.
To do list
- create/expand definition pages for types and specific types. Specific types still needed:
- cavalry regiment
- cavalry squadron
- light horse regiment
- mounted division
- corps (tactical)
- corps (administrative)
- record office
- arm
- cyclist battalion
- cyclist company
- horse artillery battery
- horse artillery brigade
- horse artillery ammunition column
- field artillery brigade
- field ambulance
- expeditionary force
- army
- British infantry regiment pages (done to KOSB):
- check for missing or duplicate battalions
- move medal rolls to h4 under other official sources
- set default sort
- British and Indian division pages:
- WO 95 sub-series for non-WF theatres
- WO 157 if any
- add more tasks to How you can help:
- highland, rifle, cyclist and pals battalions
- division-corps relationships
- regimental museums and archives
- IWM Lives communities
- yeomanry regiments converted to infantry or machine gun battalions
- improve type definition pages
- British Territorial battalions needing further disambiguation:
- start a help page on how to access structured data
- sort out naming conventions for CEF infantry battalions and create missing pages
- create pages for British divisional machine gun units
- import and test Wikipedia citation templates?
- expand Official unit diaries and histories
- update British Army Hierarchies and move source list to Official unit diaries and histories