Updated**South staffs regiment ww1

[Asmiththoms]

MaxD you are a research wizard !!  Could you tell me how to search on the London Gazette,  it would be nice to see his name in writing.

Medpat
According to family story's he didn't speak to his family so maybe that's why there isn't anything in the local papers.

[MaxD]

DIY - On the London Gazette home page.  Search box J W Kendall. On the resulting results (!!) page limit the date of publication to between 01/01/1918 and 01/01/1919.  Scroll down.  He comes up in a long list on a page 3237, click on that to go back to page 3223 see the full listing. There a few pages of bars to MMs, the MM list starts on page 3226.  (I did it a longer way round at first not knowing dates etc but the Walsall note was the give-away)

Or:
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30573/supplement/3237

As you see, his entry is for him in the MGC.  It had to be checked against the medal card to find that he started in the S Staffs.  The service numbers cross checked.

MaxD

PS Forgot - his medal card can be downloaded from the National Archives for £3.50 at:http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D3217361 

There is another with his MM on but it simply cross refers to the Gazette.

[Asmiththoms]

Got it.... thank you !!

[medpat]

Wonder if he used the Orange Tree, might have met my dad 

[Asmiththoms]

Mckha489,  thanks for John's wife's maiden name,  it looks like he used the names William/Jack/John,  so we are tracing the family tree.
Medpat,  if he was anything like his great great grandson... Yes,  trying to find living relatives to give us more information,  my husband's family is from Johns sister Doris,  married name Thomson,  Walsall through and through!

[medpat]

If you want help tracking his possible grandchildren as children were born 1921,22 and 25 let me know

[Asmiththoms]

medpat
Yes please,  that would be great.  We know the family from his daughter Doris and I had the pleasure of knowing Evelyn who was the youngest.

[medpat]

If I have this right I knew Evelyn too.

Marilyn her daughter was my sister's friend. Marilyn went to Wolverhampton Rd Primary School in the same class as my sister. She went to Edward Street Methodist Chapel Sunday school which we attended and we all went to the brownies there. Marylyn joined me at Edward Shelley High School (I am 2 years older).

I know Marilyn died in the mid 70s and my sister collected a lot of forms to become kidney donors after she died. My sister insisted we all sign .

I know where she lived  - in Jessel Rd near the corner with Raleigh St.

We lived in Neale St, off Hollyhedge Lane.

[Asmiththoms]

Yes,  you did,  Aunt Molly (Evelyn ) passed away 2011 she was a lovely lady and sadly missed, she came to my father in laws for boxing day every year. 
What  a lovely thing for your sister to do,  she never got over loosing her daughter,  but she thought the world of her great and great great nieces and nephews.