The alias problem (thanks to Alan Cossey for prompting this)

My fellow UK Access User Group member and friend Alan wrote to me yesterday having spotted a duplicate in 23rd September 1918's post. There were 2 Serjeants, 4732 - one Tinsdale, and one Tyndall.

It is not surprising that records from 100 years ago might be imprecise or inaccurate.  In this case, it set me thinking.  I don't know why all the duplicates exist in the database.  But I had decided to keep both in.

The CWGC record at his record declares that his true family name was TINSDALE - but notes on this record that he served as H Tyndale, but whether that was deliberate or accidental on his part I don't know.  If you click through to the original IWGC records you can see the same fact noted there.

So to be safe, all the Alias records (4,729 of them) remain in this blog.  In that way a) I don't have to investigate further (if it were 10 or so I might have considered it), and b) anyone searching under either his family or serving name will find him.

Thanks Alan, I wouldn't have thought any more about this without your question.