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World War 1 records
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GlitterBaby | Report | 26 Apr 2013 12:32 |
If the medal card is right then you can search the records on Ancestry by using his service number in case it has been mistranscirbed |
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GlitterBaby | Report | 26 Apr 2013 12:30 |
You are lucky to find any records as 70% were destroyed during the bombing of WW2 |
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DazedConfused | Report | 26 Apr 2013 12:29 |
Only around 30% of all WW1 army records survive, some only 1 medical or medal card. |
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Potty | Report | 26 Apr 2013 12:03 |
this could be his medal card; he was gunner and received the Victory and British medals: |
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Gai | Report | 26 Apr 2013 10:37 |
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Ann | Report | 26 Apr 2013 10:29 |
I cannot trace the service records of my grandfather THOMAS HENRY CRITCHLOW, born in Buxton Derbyshire UK on 30/4/1893and would appreciate some help please |