From Skeptic to Believer: News Anchor Gets a First Time Reading from a Medium

Well as I said, I couldn't find my great grandad and I know for a fact he existed.

But was that in the death records, or in something like the soldiers' documents that are known to have quite big gaps?

But was that in the death records, or in something like the soldiers' documents that are known to have quite big gaps?

I don't think he was killed in the war. I used to spend weekends with him until 1970. He is now. what about the name I suggested earlier in the thread?

I don't think he was killed in the war. I used to spend weekends with him until 1970. He is now. what about the name I suggested earlier in the thread?

I think it's difficult to try to make it fit one of the men we've found in the death records - with either a different Christian name or a date of death earlier than August 1917 - because then what do you do about the pocket diary, which confirmed those details, and which is really the only proof that the medium got it right?

Now Findlay never claimed to have confirmed that Eric Saunders died in the war, so you could suppose that statement was a mistake, and look for an Eric Saunders who survived. I did check the seven Eric Saunders entries in the ancestry.co.uk WWI medal rolls database, but none of them was described as a gunner. But some men just have initials, and there are 279 E. Saunders entries ...

Chris, I'd posted this other one quite a while back on Skeptiko, which had gotten some traction - I don't remember if you were there then. This is stronger in regards to the criticisms with the previous video.

This one was part of a mediumship research/experiment project (Donna Smith-Moncrieffe).

Excellent researcher, btw.

I think it's difficult to try to make it fit one of the men we've found in the death records - with either a different Christian name or a date of death earlier than August 1917 - because then what do you do about the pocket diary, which confirmed those details, and which is really the only proof that the medium got it right?

Now Findlay never claimed to have confirmed that Eric Saunders died in the war, so you could suppose that statement was a mistake, and look for an Eric Saunders who survived. I did check the seven Eric Saunders entries in the ancestry.co.uk WWI medal rolls database, but none of them was described as a gunner. But some men just have initials, and there are 279 E. Saunders entries ...

Yet I found a machine gunner called Eric Saunders who died in 1917. I can't find out the month without paying which I'm not really inclined to do. No matter.

Yet I found a machine gunner called Eric Saunders who died in 1917. I can't find out the month without paying which I'm not really inclined to do. No matter.

I was looking at the post in which you mention a gunner killed in 1917 called Ernest Joshua Cuthbert Saunders. Sorry if I'm missing something:
http://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-13...ml#pid2090

His death date was 12 June 1917 (the dates of death can be seen for free on ancestry.co.uk, and he's also in the CWGC database as E. J. C. Saunders).

I was looking at the post in which you mention a gunner killed in 1917 called Ernest Joshua Cuthbert Saunders. Sorry if I'm missing something:
http://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-13...ml#pid2090

His death date was 12 June 1917 (the dates of death can be seen for free on ancestry.co.uk, and he's also in the CWGC database as E. J. C. Saunders).

Aha ok thanks chris. That's what I was asking. Interestingly perhaps, he was listed as a machine gunner on the site I checked.

I don't know if this helps but I've found a couple of Ernest Saunders, died in France in 1917 after August. My understanding is that the august date was the date the draft left the UK training centre, not the date he died. In fact I'm not sure whether Saunders said when he actually died. I think the 'fq' in the corporals notebook meant "fully qualified" so unless old Ernest was very unlucky, he perhaps died after August. Did I miss something? Does that help? I'm happy to fish out my copy of Edge Of The Etheric if it would help

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I don't know if this helps but I've found a couple of Ernest Saunders, died in France in 1917 after August. My understanding is that the august date was the date the draft left the UK training centre, not the date he died. In fact I'm not sure whether Saunders said when he actually died. I think the 'fq' in the corporals notebook meant "fully qualified" so unless old Ernest was very unlucky, he perhaps died after August. Did I miss something? Does that help? I'm happy to fish out my copy of Edge Of The Etheric if it would help

Please do, Obi.

Are there records of soldiers that died in specific battles - like looking through the battles that occurred in France in August '17? Or which regiments were involved?