 He wrote a letter to Winston Churchill saying that the IWGC could not "omit to commemorate these [civilian casualties] if the higher purposes inspiring their work" were to continue to be respected, and the IWGC began recording civilian deaths "caused by enemy action" in January 1941.Despite support from the King and Registrar General, the Commission struggled to record all informationparticularly the addresses of next of kin.After Ware toured some of the areas with the most deaths, local authorities were enlisted to help.