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Offline mmm45

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Re: Could this be the medal card for my 2x great grandad?
« Reply #9 on: Friday 11 November 11 13:02 GMT (UK) »
He is on the Boer War Medal Rolls as LCpl James Cutts 2nd East Surrey Regiment with the number 6556 same as WW1  :)

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Re: Could this be the medal card for my 2x great grandad?
« Reply #10 on: Friday 11 November 11 13:06 GMT (UK) »
He is on the Boer War Medal Rolls as LCpl James Cutts 2nd East Surrey Regiment with the number 6556 same as WW1  :)

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Wow! I never knew this stuff, i'm not sure anyone in my family knows about this. Thank you!
Where can I find these Boer War medal rolls? I'd like to search this up and save it to my records :D :D
Lindstrom, Spall, Foot, Messenger, Cutts, Farey, Roberts, Nicholls, Bannister, Oakenfull, Whayman, Harvey, Woodfield, Collins, West Ham, Sweden, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Mile End, Essex, Epping, Bethnal Green

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Re: Could this be the medal card for my 2x great grandad?
« Reply #11 on: Friday 11 November 11 13:12 GMT (UK) »
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=1686&iid=31794_221475-00144&fn=J&ln=Cutts&st=r&ssrc=&pid=276544

Theres two entries for him on ancestry...One for Kings South Africa medal the other for Queens South Africa Medal

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Researching all Great War soldiers from the Spen Valley of West Yorkshire Especially lads from the Cleckheaton Company of 1/4th West Riding Regiment.

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Re: Could this be the medal card for my 2x great grandad?
« Reply #12 on: Friday 11 November 11 13:19 GMT (UK) »
Damn, I have no subscription so I can't see it :'(
Thank you though! It's really great to have all this extra, unexpected information on him. For far to long he's been just a name with very little information  :(
Lindstrom, Spall, Foot, Messenger, Cutts, Farey, Roberts, Nicholls, Bannister, Oakenfull, Whayman, Harvey, Woodfield, Collins, West Ham, Sweden, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Mile End, Essex, Epping, Bethnal Green


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Re: Could this be the medal card for my 2x great grandad?
« Reply #13 on: Friday 11 November 11 15:08 GMT (UK) »
Tallie, I see that you're in the UK:  check whether your local library has AncestryLibrary: if so then you can view their records free...

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Re: Could this be the medal card for my 2x great grandad?
« Reply #14 on: Friday 11 November 11 15:46 GMT (UK) »
Hi 

If you send me your e-mail details via a PM I will send this record to you

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