Lives of the First World War

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ID: 2190877

Reference: WO372/11

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/2193305

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7377155

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/627316

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

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ID: 9593311

Reference: gbm_northum_fusiliers

Title: British Army, Northumberland Fusiliers 1881-1920 Transcription

Connected by: Joanna64499

UPP: GBM/NORTHUMFUSILIERS/026158

Additional: The details match for John Joyce.

Credit: © Graham Stewart

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ID: 9593375

Name: UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919: John Joyce 24/66

Title: UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919

Description: Listing for John Joyce who died on 1 July 1916.

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Additional: The details match for John Joyce.

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ID: 9593384

Name: WWI Medal Index Cards: John Joyce 24/66

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

Description: Medal Index Card for John Joyce confirming he was KinA and eligible for the British War Medal and Victory Medal.

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Additional: The details match for John Joyce.

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ID: 9593392

Name: Class: WO 329; Piece Number: 696

Title: UK, WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920

Description: Medal Roll of the Northumberland Fusiliers confirming John Joyce was eligible for the British War Medal and Victory Medal and that he was killed in action.

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Additional: The details match for John Joyce.

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ID: 9593451

Name: NAM Accession Number: 1991-02-333; Record Number Ranges: 355001-356500; Reference: 189

Title: UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929

Description: Register of Effects for John Joyce 24/66. Legatee is his widow Margaret and children. His War Gratuity is £7.

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Additional: The details match for John Joyce.

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ID: 9593495

Title: John Joyce 24/66, 24th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers

Description: John Joyce wearing uniform. (Illustrated Chronicle)

Connected by: Joanna64499

Source information

ID: 9594684

Name: Joyce, John p 294

Title: Ireland, Casualties of World War I, 1914-1922

Description: Joyce, John. Reg No 24/66. Rank, Private; Northumberland Fusiliers (Tyneside Irish); killed in action, France, July 1, 1916; born West Calder, Midlothian.

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Additional: The details match for John Joyce.

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ID: 9594733

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2005 Transcription

Connected by: Joanna64499

UPP: BMD/M/1910/4/AZ/000522/128

Additional: Registration of the marriage of John Joyce and Margaret Ward in Oct-Nov-Dec 1910 in the district of Tynemouth, Northumberland.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9594750

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Joanna64499

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0236390

Additional: The details match for John Joyce.

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 9594802

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Joanna64499

UPP: GBC/1901/0028521477

Additional: The details match for John Joyce. He is a boarder. He is a coal putter. Aged 18.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9594836

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Joanna64499

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/30714/0307/1

Additional: The birth year is given as 1885 but the 1891 and 1901 censuses have his birth year as 1883 in West Calder. Otherwise, he has been married for 1 year to Margaret and he is a miner.

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9594872

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Joanna64499

UPP: GBC/1891/0033473606

Additional: The details match for John Joyce.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9594952

Reference: 1881gbc

Title: 1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Joanna64499

UPP: GBC/1881/0027669515

Additional: 1881 Census includes John Joyce's father who was born in 1851 in Ireland. He had passed away before the 1891 Census when John's mother is a widow with a very young child named Stephen.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9595007

Title: Thiepval Memorial to the Missing

Description: John Joyce is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial. (Photograph by Joanna Legg)

Connected by: Joanna64499

Source information

ID: 9595018

Name: WO 95/2466/4

Title: War Diary 24 Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers 1916 Jan - 1917 July

Description: Unit War Diary at the National Archives.

Connected by: Joanna64499

URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7353918
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Additional: John Joyce served with this battalion at the Battle of the Somme.

Source information

ID: 9595067

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Joanna64499

UPP: BMD/B/1912/2/AZ/000754/024

Additional: Registration of Mary Alice Joyce, the daughter of John and Margaret Joyce (nee Ward), born in 1912.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9595073

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Joanna64499

UPP: BMD/B/1914/3/AZ/000874/066

Additional: Registration of Veronica Joyce, daughter of John and Margaret Joyce (nee Ward), born in 1914.

Credit: © General Register Office

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