Lives of the First World War

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ID: 637388

Reference: WO372/1

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.

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UPP: GBM/MCI/0637882

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 5488586

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Dorothy468

UPP: GBC/1901/0024318227

Additional: Family members also given in 1911, with additions. Father's occupation is the same in both censuses.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 5488588

Name: Debt of Honour Register

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Description: Gives: 291608 15/ Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Died 4th August 1917, aged 20. Son of John and Jane Akker of 23 Aberdeen Street, Preston, Lancs. Remembered on the Menin Gate, panel 22.

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Additional: Consistent with surviving service record and Preston's Roll of Honour sheet filled in by the next-of-kin after the war. This gives his occupation as Sheeting Weaver at Horrockses, Stanley Street.

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ID: 6173477

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Dorothy468

UPP: BMD/B/1897/2/AZ/000007/200

Additional: Gives surname, forenames, district of registration, year and quarter of year, volume and page number.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 6173479

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Dorothy468

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0196693

Additional: Gives surname, forenames, military details, all service numbers, regiments.

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 6173490

Reference: gbm_wo363-4

Title: British Army Service Records 1914-1920 Transcription

Connected by: Dorothy468

UPP: GBM/WO363-4/7286286/43/1135

Additional: Gives surnames, forenames, military details, regiment and service number.

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ID: 6173492

Reference: gbm_wo363-4

Title: British Army Service Records 1914-1920 Transcription

Connected by: Dorothy468

UPP: GBM/WO363-4/7286286/43/1128

Additional: Gives surname, forenames, birth year and town. John Thomas Akker also served with the King's Liverpool Regiment.

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ID: 6183653

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Dorothy468

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/25296/0369/3

Additional: Shows surname, forenames, age, place of birth, place of residence, occupation, family members, including two children who had already died.

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ID: 6986064

Title: Preston Roll of Honour form for Private Akker

Description: This is the Roll of Honour form completed and submitted by a relative of Private John Thomas Akker for the Preston Memorial Roll of Honour in the Harris Library, Museum and Art Gallery, finished in 1927. Transcription: Name:- John Thomas Akker, Address: 23 Aberdeen St. Occupation:- Sheating Weaver Horrockses. Stanley St. Regiment:- 7th Royal Welsh Fusiliers:. Rank and Regiment Number:- Pte. 291608. Date of Birth:- May 7th 1897 age 20 yrs. Place where killed or injury received:- Ypres France. Remarks:- Killed in action July 31st 1917.

Connected by: Preston485

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ID: 7456903

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.

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URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/925039/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/731803

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

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ID: 9016282

Title: Menin Gate Memoiral Panel 22

Description: Photo of the panel on the memorial In Ypres, Belgium, which commemorates John, taken in September 2017

Connected by: Selena49658