General Site Conventions
 
 
Commentaries and editorial matter, including interjections in the transcribed documents (see below) and quotes from non-primary source material, will be displayed against a very pale madder red background.
 
Source items and transcribed text are normally displayed against a very pale purple background.
 
Source items quoted within a source item —
will normally be displayed thus, against a white background.
Editorial interjections within transcribed texts are also enclosed within square brackets thus: [sic], and may include words probably intended but unintentionally omitted by the author, and guesses at missing words where the source page is damaged. Words and phrases where the reading is uncertain are indicated by a query, thus [?].
Catalogue references are shown in white against a blue background like this.
Where an original document is torn or otherwise damaged, it is indicated like this in the transcription.
 
Footnotes are shown thus: 21   The link is to the footnote at the bottom of the page, which ends with a link back to the relevant position in the body of the text, like this: ▲ or this: ▲
 
Background data will be displayed against a 'sand' background. This includes 'transcribed' source material, where the information has been edited and/or re-formatted for presentation on this site. For example: army and navy lists
In Orders of Battle, divisional level organisations are displayed like this:
 DIVISION
Brigade level like this:
 BRIGADE
Battalion level like this:
 BATTALION
Company level like this:
 COMPANY
Troop or Battery level like this:
 TROOP
And, for the record, Corps level (rarely relevant) like this:
 CORPS
Where copyright is established for anyone other than the website owner, or where the owner is in partnership with the copyright holder, rather than being a licencee of the copyright holder, it is shown at the bottom of each page concerned, thus:
 
© COPYRIGHT CHARLES DICKENS 1851
Highlighted insertions in commentaries and narrative texts are displayed like this with a dark red border, against a slightly darker madder red background. (For example, biographical sketches in John Barham's work.)
 
Individual hyperlinks, both to targets on and off site, are displayed in dark red, bold, against appropriate backgrounds and when 'hovered' in scarlet, bold, against a pale yellow background.
 
The following symbol is used to indicate off-site hyperlinks. These links will open in a new browser window:
 
Navigational tables of hyperlinks, both on and off site, are displayed against a pale yellow background.
Descriptions for navigational tables, both on and off site, are displayed against a 'sand' background.
Headers for navigational tables, both on and off site, are displayed bold, against a pale blue background.
 
The following symbol is used in a link's description to highlight that the target site or page contains a SEARCHABLE DATABASE
 
 
The following symbol is used in a link's description to highlight that the target page contains, or is a free DOWNLOAD
 
 
The following symbol is used in a link's description to highlight that the target site is a DISCUSSION GROUP
 
The following symbol is attached to a link to a book or other publication to highlight that it is Fiction
 
Back issues of The War Correspondent which are on sale as reprints at Lulu.com are flagged like this: Lulu reprint
 
Those hardcopy back issues of The War Correspondent which are overs from the original print run are flagged like this: Print surplus
Where pages of lists of names transcribed from army and navy lists, medal rolls, musters, &c., have links to the same man on another of the pages, then that link is highlighted in red for the army and dark blue for the navy.
For example, like this: War Services Army List 1859 ► or like this: Navy List 20/6/1855 ►
 
 
 
MEDALS:
In lists of names transcribed from medal rolls, musters, &c., the following symbols are used (when considered helpful) to indicate awards, decorations and campaign medals worn by individuals in their career up to and including those awarded for the Crimean War.
 
The following symbols are attached to those who were awarded the Victoria Cross for valour during their service in the Crimean War:
✠ for the Army, and ✠ for the Navy.
The following symbols are attached to indicate Clasps received for the Crimea Medal, one for each Clasp — 'Alma', 'Balaklava', 'Inkermann', 'Sebastopol' and 'Azoff', like this:  A    B    I    S   Az
Turkish Crimea Medal:       Turkish Order of the Medjidie (with grade): 5th   French Légion d'honneur (with grade): Kt
  Baltic Medal:       Sardinian Al Valore Militare:     Order of the Bath (with grade): CB   
  Distinguished Conduct Medal:       French Médaille Militaire:    
   
 
The following were all awarded for services in the years before the Crimean War:
  Naval GS with 'Navarino' Clasp: N
   Naval GS with 'Syria' Clasp: S
   Redeemer of Greece:    
  Turkish St. Jean d'Acre:    
   Spanish Order of San Fernando: ▌▐
   Kaffir War: ▌▐
  China Medal:    
   India GS (with Pegu Clasp): ▐P▌
   
 
In lists of names transcribed from medal rolls, musters, &c., the following symbol is used to indicate men who have been recorded as 'Discharged Dead' : DD