Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 1120881

Reference: WO372/5

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.

URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D2108487
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

UPP: GBM/MCI/1122014

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 6996897

Reference: wwisd

Title: Soldiers died in the Great War 1914-1919 Transcription

Connected by: Linda571

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0551357

Additional: Names and military details match seed data.

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

Source information

ID: 6996898

Title: John Davies from Barnsley Chronicle

Description: Head shot only, older man maybe, with moustache. From Barnsley Chronicle 28 April 1917

Connected by: Linda571

Source information

ID: 7040664

Reference: CWGCCASUALIWM

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records

Description: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) commemorate First World War servicemen and women and members of some civilian organisations who died before 31 August 1921 while in Commonwealth military service or of causes attributable to service.

Connected by: Imperial1

URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/166150/
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/73607

Additional: This record has been automatically matched to the Life Story by IWM, using rules based on name, rank, number, regiment and service.

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Source information

ID: 8502582

Name: Published 10 July 2015

Title: A Barnsley Historian's View - Two Brothers Lose their Lives in WW1

Description: A blog post with pictures describing the search for John Edward Davies story.

Connected by: Linda571

URL: http://barnsleyhistorian.blogspot.com/2015/07/thomas-and-john-edward-davies-two.html
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

Additional: This blog post is specifically about John and his family.

Source information

ID: 9270947

Title: John E Davies remembered in Barnsley Cemetery

Description: The fallen gravestone for John's wife Ann and daughter. It is a low triangular stone with stubby pillars to either side. It has been brushed with chalk to make the letters easier to photograph.

Connected by: Linda571

Additional: Photo by Wayne Bywater April 2018.

Source information

ID: 9466370

Title: Framed Certificate for John E Davies

Description: Two certificates, a medal and a small photo of this man, in a dark wood frame (some of image cropped for neatness).

Connected by: Linda571

Additional: From David Whittlestone. The frame and its contents were on display in his local pub during the Remembrance period 2018.

Key to Event Icons

Event Type	Event Icon
appointments
awards
birth
burial
children
commission
dates
death
discharge
education
employment
enlistment
events
hospitalisation
internment
location
marriage
missing
service
sibling
theatres