Lives of the First World War

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ID: 106150

Reference: WO372/1

Title: Medal Index Card

Description: Medal index cards were created by the Army Medal Office towards the end of the First World War. They record the medals that men and women who served in the First World War were entitled to claim.

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UPP: GBM/MCI/0106230

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 5497363

Title: Sidney Charles Austin

Description: In uniform taken in a studio in, I believe, Hull, Yorkshire.

Connected by: John4744

Additional: This is my Grandfather. The photo is one of three given to me by my mother.

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ID: 5497616

Title: Dispatch rider

Description: I believe SCA was a dispatch rider for part of his war service. I don't know where this picture was taken.

Connected by: John4744

Additional: One of only three picture of my Grandfather, all in uniform.

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ID: 5497736

Title: My Grandfather in studio pose.

Description: My Grandfather in uniform together with his wife and son in a posed studio photograph, app 1916

Connected by: John4744

Additional: This is my Grandfather, his wife and son, also Sidney Charles Austin. The son, my father was born in 1911. He looks about 5 years old here to the picture must have been taken app 1915/6 when he was on leave.

Source information

ID: 5497943

Title: Personal Knowledge of John Austin

Description: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

Connected by: John4744

Additional: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

Source information

ID: 5508944

Title: Personal Knowledge of John Austin

Description: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

Connected by: John4744

Additional: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

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ID: 5512749

Title: 1914 Star

Description: This is SCA,s 1914 Mons star.

Connected by: John4744

Additional: My Grandfather joined up at the very start of the war and was in theatre within a few weeks of the outbreak of war and thus qualified for this Mons star. I am very moved to still have the medal.

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