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Dublin / Re: Soldiers of the first world war
« on: Saturday 01 October 05 11:11 BST (UK)  »
Hi Valerie

Sorry to learn you were unable to find any details on the national archives site.
I took the liberty of having a look at the Medal Roll cards and found five references to soldiers by the name of Edward O'Brien.

They are as follows: (Number is their service number)

Edward J O'Brien   22084     Private
Edward O'Brien     23151     Private
Edward O'Brien     13623     Private
Edward O'Brien       9300     Private
Edward O'Brien       7944     Private   promoted Corporal

All of the above are shown as having served in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers between 1915 and 1920 and details are located in the national archives file  number WO/ 372/15.

The details I have shown are available online, but you can order an actual copy of the medal card ( cost £3.50 each) direct from the nat.archives.

I hope your g/f is one of the above. 

As for his friend, if he was killed in action, his details will be on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.

Good Luck,  Tinman



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Dublin / Re: Soldiers of the first world war
« on: Wednesday 28 September 05 14:30 BST (UK)  »
Hi Valerie

I assume from your request that your grandfather survived the war in which case try the following. (It worked for me).
Go to www.nationalarchives.gov.uk  -   then select "Military History"  -  then select "Search the Archives"  -  you will see the "Documents Online" section. Click on the "GO" box and this will bring up the WWI Campaign Medals section  -  click on "GO" and you will be presented with a selection of boxes where you can fill in the known details of your grandfather  -  then click on  "search".
This should present you with his medal roll which will display all his medal entitlements plus a bit of info on his rank and where he served.
The only problem is this card does not include his full service record as very few of them survived destruction during the 2nd WW. You will need to go to Kew to search manually for the few that have survived ( more info on the national archives website).

Anyway, good luck and hope this helps.

Regards Tinman


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Dublin / Re: ONE SURNAME STUDY
« on: Wednesday 28 September 05 14:04 BST (UK)  »
Yet another grateful enquirer.

Can you tell me if you have any info on WHISTON family from Dublin please?

Regards Tinman

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Dublin / Re: Whiston ancestors
« on: Saturday 24 September 05 20:44 BST (UK)  »
As above

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Dublin / Re: Whiston ancestors
« on: Saturday 24 September 05 20:35 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone tell me how to look up details of my grandfather who was a compositor in Dublin in the early 1900's please?
He was also in Royal Dublin Fusiliers during 1st WW and I have his war medals, but that's all I know about him. Sadly, don't even know when he died but believe it was in 1930's.

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Dublin / Whiston ancestors
« on: Saturday 24 September 05 20:33 BST (UK)  »
As a new member to this web-site, am not sure if I'm going about this the right way but, I'm looking for any Whiston's or Russell's in or around Dublin.


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