Lives of the First World War

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ID: 2080321

Reference: WO372/10

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/2082677

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 5505080

Title: Personal Knowledge of Colin Ainsworth

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

Connected by: Colin16125

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

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ID: 5505328

Title: Personal Knowledge of Colin Ainsworth

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

Connected by: Colin16125

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

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ID: 5519733

Title: 1911 census

Description: John William Jacobs in his mother-in-laws household with his wife and young daughter and sister-in-law.

Connected by: Colin16125

Additional: John Jacobs married my great aunt Sarah McCarthy's (nee Ainsworth) daughter Bertha. My late mother Annie Ainsworth told me the basic facts about their lives, which I have built upon by online ancestry research.

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ID: 5519737

Title: 1909 marriage record

Description: Record of the 1909 marriage of John william Jacobs and Bertha McCarthy.

Connected by: Colin16125

Additional: John Jacobs married my great aunt Sara McCarthy's (nee Ainsworth) daughter Bertha.

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ID: 5652676

Title: Corporal John William Jacobs.

Description: John Jacobs' grave is at Bancourt British cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

Connected by: Colin16125

Additional: Family photo taken October 1913.

Source information

ID: 7136004

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

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/157534

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: 8689927

Title: Headstone

Description: John Jacobs grave at Bancourt military cemetery, picture taken by me whilst visiting his grave, which I think was in 2013.

Connected by: Colin16125

Additional: John Jacobs was the first husband of my father's cousin Bertha McCarthy. Her mother was Sarah Ainsworth, my grandfather's older sister.

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ID: 8689928

Title: Marriage record

Description: Marriage record for 29th May 1909, giving names of fathers etc.

Connected by: Colin16125

Additional: Bertha was my father's cousin, the daughter of his father's oldest sister, nee Sarah Ainsworth

Source information

ID: 8768998

Title: John Jacobs

Description: Photo provided by his grandson

Connected by: Colin16125

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