Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 4595191

Reference: WO372/20

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/4599565

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9603973

Name: Page 7721

Title: London Gazette Supplement 30773

Description: This shows were John George Walls was receiving a Lieutenant commission

Connected by: Jacqui101199

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30773/supplement/7718
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Additional: According to the medal card it shows that whilst in the Yorkshire regiment he was commissioned and his family told me this before I connected the details.

Source information

ID: 9604019

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Jacqui101199

UPP: BMD/B/1888/1/AZ/000596/164

Additional: We know this is the correct birth record as family informed me he was born in Potto at the end of November and his mother's surname was Clark

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9604027

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Jacqui101199

UPP: GBC/1891/0027602592

Additional: The surname and first names match with the DOB and area he lived.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9618559

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2005 Transcription

Connected by: Jacqui101199

UPP: BMD/M/1912/2/AZ/000974/052

Additional: The names and date all match to the information given by family members

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9618634

Name: Morley Registration district 504A-5

Reference: Find My Past

Title: 1939 Register

Description: This is the register of people in England & Wales in 1939

Connected by: Jacqui101199

Additional: This matches names, ages & occupation of all the family in 1939 as told to me by family members

Source information

ID: 9618694

Name: Ancestry record of death in Scotland

Title: Record of Death

Description: this record shows his date of death in Scotland as told to me by his family

Connected by: Jacqui101199

URL: https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=70845&h=4286424&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=YeX12&_phstart=successSource
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Additional: the name and details all match information received

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ID: 9618737

Title: Photo of John G Walls

Description: John G Walls in uniform after promotion to Lieutenant

Connected by: Jacqui101199

Source information

ID: 9618749

Title: Wife and daughter of J G Walls

Description: This photo was taken of his wife and daughter

Connected by: Jacqui101199

Additional: this came from the family collection

Source information

ID: 9618878

Title: Death notice from paper

Description: This is a cutting from the paper reporting his death

Connected by: Jacqui101199

Additional: This is from the family collection of his Great niece

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ID: 9618944

Title: Copy of retirement notice LNER Magazine 1948

Description: This is a copy of the article covering his retirement

Connected by: Jacqui101199

Additional: This is a copy of an article about Mr John G Walls retirement from LNER

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