Lives of the First World War

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ID: 2776453

Reference: WO372/12

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/2779367

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8643621

Name: WO 363 or WO 364

Reference: National Archives, Kew, Surrey

Title: James McDonald's British army record

Description: Discharge documents pertaining mostly to medical condition and disability pension application. 12 pages.

Connected by: J53054

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ID: 8643668

Name: W Yorks, Bradford, RG14/26725 RG78PN1540 RD498 SD2 ED6 SN176

Reference: Found online at Ancestry.co.uk

Title: James McDonald in 1911 England & Wales census

Description: [transcription] 2 April 1911, 77 Tennyson Place (6 rooms) John Turner, Head, 40, m, Married, -, Ale & Porter Bottler, Employer, Kirkcudbright Scotland, [John Turner's family], James McDonald, Boarder, 26, m, Single, -, Proffesional Footballer, Bradford City FC, Old Aberdeen Aberdeenshire, Robert Torrance, Boarder, 23, Single, -, Proffesional Footballer, Bradford City FC, Kirkintilloch Dumbartonshire

Connected by: J53054

Additional: Professional footballer born in Aberdeen, living in Bradford and playing for Bradford City FC. Approx birth year doesn't match military record or other birth cert.

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ID: 8643681

Name: 1914 Yorks, Manningham, St Paul, p101 no 201

Reference: W Yorks Archive Service, Leeds, Yorks. Online at Ancestry.co.uk

Title: Marriage certificate for James Alexander McDonald

Description: Copy of marriage register page for Manningham St Paul.

Connected by: J53054

Additional: Professional footballer in Bradford, 1914. Also matches details given to me by James McDonald's descendants.

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ID: 8643709

Name: 1924 Yorks, Dewsbury, Batley no. 180

Reference: General Register Office

Title: Death certificate for James Alexander McDonald

Description: Paper copy obtained from General Register Office in 2015

Connected by: J53054

Source information

ID: 8643875

Name: 1884, Aberdeen, Old Machar, 168/02 0088

Reference: Scotland's People

Title: Birth certificate for James Alexander McDonald

Description: Page of birth register online at Scotland's People [transcription] Page 30, 1884 Births in the District of Old Machar in the County of Aberdeen, No: 88, Name: James Alexander McDonald (Illegitimate), When and where born: 1883 December Twenty-Seventh 7 h 11 m, 48 1/2 Spital Aberdeen, Sex: M, Father's name occupation: James Alexander Mc Donald, General Labourer, Mother's name occupation maiden surname: Catherine Barbour Bowman, House Keeper, Date and place of parents' marriage: Signature descrip residence of informant (if not same as birth): C. B. Bowman mother, James A Mc Donald Father 34 Don Street, Old Aberdeen, When registered: 1884 January 17th At Aberdeen, Signature of registrar: James Valentine Registrar

Connected by: J53054

Source information

ID: 8732456

Name: Glorious 1911 - The Team

Title: bantamspast - The Bradford City Football Club Museum

Description: Bradford City FC Museum website about the history of the club

Connected by: J53054

URL: http://www.bantamspast.co.uk/earlydays/theteam.html
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Additional: Soldier's military record (medical assessment) dated 1919 gives "Proffesional Footballer" as pre-army occupation and gives wife's name and address. Details match 1911 census & marriage record for Jimmy McDonald the Bradford City footballer.

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