Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 2515599

Reference: WO372/7

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=D3529610
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

UPP: GBM/MCI/2518302

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 6245607

Title: Personal Knowledge of Neil Fortey

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

Connected by: Neil36011

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

Source information

ID: 6986596

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 Transcription

Connected by: Neil36011

UPP: BMD/M/1897/2/AZ/000127/043

Additional: Names match Thomas' parents (see CWGC and census records) - this record is of his parent's marriage in 1897.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 6986598

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Neil36011

UPP: BMD/B/1898/4/AZ/000199/244

Additional: Thomas was born in the 4th quarter of 1898, which explains why his age is given as 18 on records of his death in August 1917.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 6986601

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Neil36011

UPP: GBC/1901/0018559385

Additional: A good family match.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 6986603

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Neil36011

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/18347/0389/3

Additional: A good family match. My father remembered the family home in Saltley.

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 6986607

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

Connected by: Neil36011

UPP: BMD/D/1917/3/AZ/000260/068

Additional: The family story always that my uncle Thomas had drowned at Blyth, Northumberland, during WW1. It turns out to be true.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 6986635

Reference: gbm_birm_emp

Title: Birmingham Employers Roll of Honour 1914-1918 Transcription

Connected by: Neil36011

UPP: GBM/BIRM_EMP/11103

Additional: Birmingham Employers correctly records unusually form of Private Fortey's death in a swimming accident at Blyth, Northumberland.

Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast

Source information

ID: 6986640

Name: Casualty Fortey T Private 243009

Title: Fortey T

Description: CWGC Burial record from Birmingham Key Hill cemetery.

Connected by: Neil36011

URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/403048/FORTEY,%T
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

Additional: A clear match to Private Fortey's resting place.

Source information

ID: 6986673

Name: Newcastle Daily Journal, Tuesday August 28th 1917

Title: Blyth Bathing Fatality - Soldiers Drowned by the Current

Description: press report of Coroner's inquest into troops drowning incident at Blyth beach August 24th 1917

Connected by: Neil36011

URL: http://search.findmypast.co.uk
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

Additional: the story of a tragic and completely un-necessary accident

Source information

ID: 7197501

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/403048/
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/299107

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: 8509393

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Sharon36563

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0648967

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

Source information

ID: 8509411

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

Description: These are records of what the UK government owed to the next of kin upon a soldier's death, include next of kin. Father :-Thomas. Place of death:- Blyth Northumberland. Cause:- Drowned

Connected by: Sharon36563

URL: http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/60506/42511_6117463_0109-00024/?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=60506&iid=42511_6117463_0109-00024&fn=Thomas&ln=Fortey&st=d&ssrc=&pid=120091
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

Source information

ID: 8509924

Title: Morpeth Herald 31 August 1917

Description: Report on the drowning of nine servicemen.

Connected by: Sharon36563

Source information

ID: 8512279

Title: Birmingham Daily Post 25 August 1917

Description: A report on the death by drowning of the soldiers.

Connected by: Sharon36563

Source information

ID: 8512280

Title: Lincolnshire Echo 27 August 1917

Description: A report on the death by drowning of the soldiers.

Connected by: Sharon36563

Source information

ID: 8512281

Title: Morpeth Herald 31 August 1917

Description: A report on the death by drowning of the soldiers.

Connected by: Sharon36563

Source information

ID: 8963996

Title: Screen wall entry

Description: Screen wall entry for Private Thomas Fortey in Key Hill Cemetery, Birmingham (Image: 04/05/2015)

Connected by: DR117137

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