Lives of the First World War

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ID: 3039354

Reference: WO372/14

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/3042473

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 5478472

Title: Menin Gate Ypres

Description: James Miller was my grandfather killed June 1915 at the Battle of Bellewaarde near Hooge. He is comemmorated on the Menin Gate.

Connected by: Roland458

Additional: James Miller was my grandfather killed June 1915 at the Battle of Bellewaarde near Hooge. He is comemmorated on the Menin Gate.

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ID: 5478481

Name: WO97-5510-169-001

Reference: National Asrchives

Title: Service Record

Description: Enlisted 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers 30/05/1899 with regimental number 5837. Served in Australia, South Africa, India and Mauritius until discharge 1907. Re-enlisted 1914 allocated Reg. No. 9266 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, in France 1st May 1915 killied in action at Bellewaarde, Belgium 16th June 1915. No known grave but remembered on Menin Gate panels 8and 13.

Connected by: Roland458

Additional: My research, service record, CWGC and http://www.bellewaarde1915.co.uk/

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ID: 6189104

Reference: bmd_overseas_deaths_arr1

Title: GRO WAR DEATHS ARMY OTHER RANKS (1914 to1921) Transcription

Connected by: Roland458

UPP: BMD/OVS/ARR1/002524/142

Additional: My grandfather

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 6189128

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Roland458

UPP: GBC/1891/0028254567

Additional: My grandfather

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 6189131

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Roland458

UPP: BMD/B/1879/3/AZ/000380/103

Additional: My grandfather, known facts

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 6189137

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Roland458

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/30091/0481/1

Additional: My grandfather and grandmother's details

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6189143

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 Transcription

Connected by: Roland458

UPP: BMD/M/1907/2/AZ/000255/234

Additional: Married Margaret Jane Forster

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 6190781

Title: Personal Knowledge of Roland Jefferson

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

Connected by: Roland458

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

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ID: 6190792

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Roland458

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0226917

Additional: Known military service details, my grandfather

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 6987016

Title: Pte James Miller 9266

Description: who was killed at the battle of Bellewaarde, Hooge, Belgium on 16th June 1915. He left a wife, Margaret Jane and 3 children James, Elizabeth and Jane Peel, another daughter Margaret Jane was born in July 1915 a month after his death.

Connected by: Preston43148

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ID: 6987018

Title: CWGC Memorial Record

Description: This is the detail of Pte James Miller 9266 1st Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers who has no known grave but is listed on the Menin Gate panels 8 and 12.

Connected by: Preston43148

URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/906842/MILLER,%20JAMES
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Additional: This is my grandfather, all details match.

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ID: 8475932

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Preston43148

UPP: GBC/1891/0028254564

Additional: All of the above apply, mother Mahala and father William

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8476233

Reference: 1881gbc

Title: 1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Preston43148

UPP: GBC/1881/0023251732

Additional: Although record as MILLAR this is James Miller, all other family are correct

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8476241

Name: War Pension

Reference: information from War pension Office

Title: War pension record

Description: Details obtained from WPO in Blackpool

Connected by: Preston43148

Additional: All details match James widow award pension for herself and 4 children, Margaret jane being both 1 month after he was killed

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ID: 8477597

Name: A poem from his wife

Reference: Chester chronicle Archives

Title: Extract from the Chester Chronicile 16/06/1916

Description: Awarded the Queens South Africa Medal with clasp and the Cape Colony Transvaal medal 1901, 1902. James left a wife, Margaret Jane and four children, James, Elizabeth Mary, Jane Peel and Margaret Jane, born 27/07/1915. "In loving memory of my dear husband James Miller, reported missing on 16 June 1915, now reported killed. In the bloom of life death claimed him, In the pride of his manhood days; None knew him but to love him, None mentioned his name but with praise; His smiling face I shall never forget, Though years may pass away. As I gaze on your picture that hangs on the wall, Your smile and your welcome I often recall; I miss you and mourn you in sorrow unseen, And dwell on the memories of days that have been. Oh, how my heart does ache, When I think of how you died; To think you could not speak to me, Before you closed your eyes. Ever remembered by his loving wife and four children, father and mother-in-law."

Connected by: Preston43148

Additional: My grandfather , all items match

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ID: 8477598

Name: Pte James Miller

Title: The Battle of Bellewaarde 16th June 1915

Description: A website to commemorate the battle

Connected by: Preston43148

URL: http://www.bellewaarde1915.co.uk
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ID: 8477607

Title: Pelton Fell, Chester-le-St, War Memorial

Description: Situated in the Memorial Park.

Connected by: Preston43148

Additional: I took this photo

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ID: 8477614

Title: Menin gate inscription for Jam s Miller

Description: Under the Northumberland fusiliers heading in Ypres

Connected by: Preston43148

Additional: Entry for Pte James Miller my grandfather

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ID: 8487473

Title: War memorial Plaque remembering James Miller Pte

Description: This is the reverse plaque on the Pelton Fell War Memorial including James Miller

Connected by: Preston43148

Additional: My grandfathers memoriam.

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ID: 8779005

Title: Holy Trinity Church War Memorial, Pelton, Chester-le-St, Co Durham

Description: James is commemorated her

Connected by: Preston43148

URL: http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=8395
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ID: 8779007

Title: Durham At War

Description: Stories of peoples and places from Durham, this is James Story

Connected by: Preston43148

URL: https://www.durhamatwar.org.uk/story/12853/
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ID: 8779009

Title: Pelton Fell War Memorial, Battle Green, Pelton Fell

Description: A memorial to the fallen men of the area including James Miller

Connected by: Preston43148

URL: http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=8407
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