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A Street Near You – exploring the local legacy of the First World War

A Street Near You is a personal project, born out of intrigue, created out of frustration, intended as a demonstrator, built in a week, based solely on open data …
which reached 240,000 people in three days

Conceived as a way of demonstrating the untapped potential of linking First World War datasets (and the frustration that all the centenary projects had been working separately), A Street Near You was, and continues to be, a personal experiment in enriching, enhancing, extending, and presenting data in an engaging way.

But it became a bit more than that, which you can read about in the following blog posts:

For the actual A Street Near You site see astreetnearyou.org

One Comment

  1. Hi,
    I’m doing my ancestors search and here some information.

    “Sepoy Atar Singh, Indian Survey Department, Died: Thursday 3 April 1919”
    Commonwealth War Graves Commission
    Record: ATAR SINGH,
    Additional information: Son of Bhanga Singh, of Nalapani, Raipore, Dehra Dun, United Provinces.
    Cemetery: BASRA MEMORIAL
    Cemetery/memorial reference: Panel 58.
    Country: Indian

    Update as per Documents
    ATTAR SINGH

    Son of Bhagwan Singh and Rukmani, From Nalapani Raipur DehraDun, Uttarakhand, India

    Sepoy Attar Singh was honored with Memorial Plaque and Scroll from where came to know he was sacrificed his life in First World War 1

    He was Grand Son of Havildar Ram Singh Adhikari, who served for 25years 3 month and 2 days for 5th Gorkha Regiment British Indian Army (From His Discharge Certificate) I’m searching for his details too

    He was real elder Brother of my grandfather Nain Singh Adhikari and Shamsher Singh Adhikari

    All the Document I had received from my father Matbar Singh Adhikari s/o Nain Singh Adhikari and Purnima

    My Best
    Sanjay Adhikari
    [email protected]
    8826312500

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