Lives of the First World War

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ID: 1420263

Reference: WO372/8

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.

UPP: GBM/MCI/1421987

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8615767

Name: Birth registration, John Charles Grant, Oct-Dec 1889, Cambridge 3b 473

Title: Birth record 1889 in Free BMD database

Description: Transcribed GRO Indexes. Birth registration, John Charles Grant, Oct-Dec 1889, Cambridge 3b 473

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ID: 8615776

Name: Census 1891 England, Cambridgeshire, St Andrew the Less, District 23, accessed via Ancestry

Title: Census 1891 England, Cambridgeshire, St Andrew the Less, District 23

Description: The census information recorded John C. Grant (aged 1, born in Cambridge) at home with his father, Charles E. Grant (39, Bursar and Librarian of Kings College, Assistant Registrary of the University); his mother, Madeline I. (27); and 3 domestic servants. They lived at 15 Hills Road, Cambridge. The census details were as of the night of 5/6 April 1891.

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ID: 8615782

Name: Census 1901 England, Sussex, East Grinstead, District 4, accessed via Ancestry

Title: Census 1901 England, Sussex, East Grinstead, District 4

Description: The census information recorded John C. Grant (aged 11, born in Cambridge) as a boarder at Font Hill School, East Grinstead, Sussex. The census details were as of the night of 31 March/1 April 1901.

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ID: 8615800

Name: Census 1911 England, Hampshire, Fawley, District 1, accessed via Ancestry

Title: Census 1911 England, Hampshire, Fawley, District 1

Description: The census information recorded John Charles Grant (aged 21, student, Cambridge University) as a visitor at the home of Edwin Trasers Dixon (48, Major, Territorial Force, and his daughter, Florence Lindsay Dorrock Dixon (19) at The Hard, Hythe, Southampton. The census details were as of the night of 2/3 April 1911.

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ID: 8615806

Name: Census 1911 England, Cambridgeshire, Trumpington, District 20, via Ancestry

Title: Census 1911 England, Cambridgeshire, Trumpington, District 20

Description: The census information recorded the parents of John Charles Grant, Charles Eustace and Madeline Isabel Grant, as residing at Meadowcroft, Trumpington Road, Cambridge, a 19-roomed property.

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ID: 8615825

Name: London Gazette Issue 29000 8 December 1914 p.10454

Title: London Gazette Issue 29000 8 December 1914 p.10454

Description: "The under mentioned Cadets and ex-Cadets of the Officers Training Corps, to be Second Lieutenants (on probation). Dates 9th December 1914 unless otherwise stated": - ... John Charles Grant, 6th Battalion, Rifle Brigade, Dated 29th November 1914

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ID: 8615837

Name: London Gazette Issue No. 29223 Supplement, 8 July 1915 p.6689

Title: London Gazette Issue No. 29223 Supplement, 8 July 1915 p.6689

Description: "The undermentioned Second Lieutenants (on probation) are confirmed in their ranks":- 6th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade - John Charles Grant

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ID: 8615878

Name: British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index cards, 1914-1920, accessed via Ancestry

Title: British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index cards, 1914-1920

Description: Entry for John Charles Grant of the Rifles Brigade, 2nd Lieut who was later promoted to Captain. The first theatre of war he entered was France, on 25 May 1915. He was entitled to the awards of the 15 Star and the British War and Victory Medals. The address on his index card was Bradden House, Towchester, Northamptonshire - (dated 3 February 1923)

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ID: 8615883

Name: England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1858-1966, accessed via Ancestry

Title: England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1858-1966

Description: John's father died in 1930, his probate was carried out under the name of Charles Eustace Grant-Ives of Bradden House, Bradden, Northamptonshire.

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ID: 8615885

Name: Marr. registn, John C. Grant-Ives and Dorothy M. Chance/Hemsted, Jul-Sep 1948, Witney 6b 2668

Title: Marriage record 1948 in Free BMD database

Description: Transcribed GRO Indexes. Marr. registn, John C. Grant-Ives and Dorothy M. Chance/Hemsted, Jul-Sep 1948, Witney 6b 2668

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ID: 8615890

Name: England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1858-1966, accessed via Ancestry

Title: England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1858-1966

Description: Entry for John Charles Grant-Ives of Bradden House, Bradden, near Towcester, Northamptonshire, who died 25 February 1959

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ID: 8615895

Name: England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1858-1966, accessed via Ancestry

Title: England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1858-1966

Description: Entry for Dorothy Mary Grant-Ives, widow, of 46 Belgrave Square, London S.W.1, who died 1 August 1962. Probate was granted to Daphne Joy Gaskell (maiden name Hemsted)

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Additional: The person's names matched those of the wife of John Charles Grant

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