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Adding the medal roll information from WO100 to the unit pages 5 years 5 months ago #60647

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I have started a long-term project which seeks to add the QSA and KSA roll pages in PDF format to the unit pages on the site.

This will allow those seeking to verify a medal to find the original documentation easily and, hopefully, quickly if the unit is not too large. We will see how it goes.

I have started with the Town Guards. As and Bs so far.

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Aberdeen Town Guard
Adelaide Town Guard

I will post updates as I go.
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Thank You David this will be greatly appreciated...…

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Surely it is simpler to provide direct links to download the rolls from the TNA site?
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The TNA rolls have more than one unit on them - this way it's a seamless jump into a specific unit.

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Meurig,

You're right that it is possible to download the whole roll from TNA. For smaller units like the TGs and DMTs, it will be faster and easier to load the PDF from the unit pages.

Picking up Rory's point, there are 148 units spread across the 3 rolls, 280, 281 and 283.
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Town Guards to Cyphergat added.

27 Town Guards, 194 pages, so far.

Aberdeen. Pages: 10
Adelaide. Pages: 6
Alexandria. Pages: 4
Alice. Pages: 6
Alicedale. Pages: 11
Aliwaln. Pages: 7
Barberton. Pages: 8
Barkly East. Pages: 4
Barkly West. Pages: 9
Beaufort West. Pages: 19
Bedford. Pages: 6
Bethulie. Pages: 1
Bluecliff Glenconnor. Pages: 2
Boshof. Pages: 3
Brandfort. Pages: 1
Britstown. Pages: 4
Burghersdorp. Pages: 11
Cala. Pages: 11
Campbell. Pages: 3
Carnarvon. Pages: 3
Cathcart. Pages: 5
Ceres. Pages: 4
Clanwilliam. Pages: 3
Colesberg. Pages: 8
Cookhouse. Pages: 6
Cradock. Pages: 36
Cyphergat. Pages: 3

The number of pages on the roll usually represents the number of actual pages. However and sometimes, any added paper which obscures the roll information is moved as much as possible and the roll is then re-imaged. This can mean there are two images for one actual page of information.
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