Lives of the First World War

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ID: 6206435

Reference: ADM339

Title: Royal Naval Division Service Records 1914-1920

Description: The British Royal Naval Division was made up of men from the Royal Navy and its reserve forces. These men, who were not needed at sea, fought on land alongside the Army during World War One. The records cover more than 50,000 officers and ratings who joined the Royal Naval Division or who passed through Crystal Palace, London when it was used as an initial training centre during the First World War.

UPP: GBM/ADM339/11201

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8631022

Title: George and his nephew

Description: Drake Battalion, 27 August 1916, France, killed

Connected by: Jack4956

Source information

ID: 8931382

Reference: gbm_adm171

Title: RNVR Other Ranks - Medal Rolls 1914-1920 Transcription

Connected by: Linda571

UPP: GBM/ADM171/056953

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8931383

Reference: gbm_ncsailor_1914

Title: WW1 Naval Casualties Transcription

Connected by: Linda571

UPP: GBM/NC/34901

Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast

Source information

ID: 8931384

Reference: gbm_rnd1914

Title: Royal Naval Division 1914-1918 Transcription

Connected by: Linda571

UPP: GBM/RND/8081

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8931385

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Linda571

UPP: BMD/B/1886/1/AZ/000520/055

Additional: Names, date and place match date of birth on Naval records.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 8931387

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Linda571

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/28056/0569/4

Additional: Names and place fit naval records - address matches the one for his mother on the Navy death records.

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8931389

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Linda571

UPP: GBC/1901/0027703057

Additional: Name, age and place of birth fits 1911 census, the names of his mother and step-father match too.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8931393

Name: 25 March 1886

Title: Baptism Register for St John's, Barnsley, Yorkshire

Description: A page from this register showing George's baptism, parents William and Mary living at 54 Union Street, Barnsley. His father was a joiner.

Connected by: Linda571

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Additional: In Barnsley in the right year and we know his mother was called Mary.

Source information

ID: 8931396

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Linda571

UPP: GBC/1891/0026076162

Additional: We know his parents were William and Mary from his baptism and the naval records (for his mum). The surname has been mis-transcribed on both Ancestry and FMP. Leeds for Seed.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 8931400

Name: Seed and Hudson

Reference: Barnsley Archives

Title: Barnsley Cemetery Burial Records

Description: An alphabetical list of burials in this cemetery. Includes George's parents.

Connected by: Linda571

Additional: We know George's father died between 1891 and 1901 because his mother Mary remarries Hudson. Both are buried here along with two siblings.

Source information

ID: 8931406

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records Transcription

Connected by: Linda571

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/439628

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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