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Messages - AlasdairGTW

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Dublin / Re: Help finding GGGrandparents
« on: Tuesday 10 March 20 00:49 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for looking, I'm used to the Scottish records but not too familiar with the websites for searching irish records, I did sift through irishgeneology for some time but havent had much luck.

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Dublin / Re: Help finding GGGrandparents
« on: Tuesday 10 March 20 00:27 GMT (UK)  »
That's unknown I'm afraid.

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Dublin / Help finding GGGrandparents
« on: Tuesday 10 March 20 00:17 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,

I was hoping for some help or advice in locating my Great Great Great Grandparents BM&D records.

They are both listed on my Great Grandmother Elizabeth O'Brien's registration of marriage and death as Edward O'Brien and Elizabeth O'Brien (nee Fitzgerald).

My Great Great Grandmother Elizabeth (Lizzie) O'Brien B. Abt 1856 in Dublin, she moved to Scotland and married Joseph Gretton in Edinburgh on the 11th Nov 1873.

Both Elizabeth's are repeatedly recorded as having been born in Dublin.

Thanks in advance for any help

Alasdair


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World War One / Re: Royal Engineers
« on: Wednesday 02 October 19 11:33 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, I did see that, just wanted to check the card for any other clues ie dates, and check service numbers as they differed slightly in earlier posts, in a previous post it states he was in 5th Field Coy but I found one showing 7th Field Coy, might be another path for research.

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World War One / Re: Royal Engineers
« on: Wednesday 02 October 19 08:12 BST (UK)  »
His medal card shows war medal and Victory medal.

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World War One / Re: Royal Engineers
« on: Wednesday 02 October 19 07:50 BST (UK)  »
From "Uk Soldiers Died in Great war 1914-1918"
Name:Horace Arthur Smith
Birth Place:Edenham, Lincs
Death Date:28 Oct 1918
Death Place:Egypt
Enlistment Place:Bourne, LincsRank:DVR.
Regiment:Royal Engineers
Regimental Number:489879
Type of Casualty:Died
Theatre of War:Egyptian Theatre Comments:Formerly 2903, 3/1St Lincs Yco. (7Th Field Coy., R.E.)

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World War One / Re: Medal bar what are they
« on: Tuesday 01 October 19 07:55 BST (UK)  »
I popped back to have another look at this, I was fairly confident that there was no victory medal ribbon on the bar, only the wee part loose under bar.

 I was wrong in my last reply as this isn't a DCM ribbon, most likely his ISM ribbon as he was awarded the Imperial Service Medal in 1954.

The London Gazette, Publication - ISM awarded 2nd February 1954 for his Civil Service.
Supplement:40089 Page:714

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World War One / Re: DCM & MM sites
« on: Friday 30 August 19 07:28 BST (UK)  »
Medal index card & BWM roll shows him as Sgt, and also has him with both the 2nd and 7th Battalions, awarded the MM, 1914 Star, BWM and VM.

Entry date on MIC is 23rd August 1914.

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World War One / Re: Medal bar what are they
« on: Wednesday 28 August 19 20:50 BST (UK)  »
Just a thought, but the 2nd ribbon in the bar looks more like that of a discoloured DCM ribbon than a VM, although that wouldn't be the correct order of wear either, the loose section of ribbon at the back of the ribbon does however look like that of a VM.

There seems to be a couple more Soundies listed in the Gazette for 1918 & 1922, any chance this could have been a brothers or relations bar if it is indeed a DCM ribbon?.

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