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HELP NEEDED - WW1 ENLISTMENT DATA.
Can the Medal Cards be sorted using date of birth + full name?
I have eight brothers and sisters did they serve during WW!?

SEARCH FOR WW1 MEDAL CARDS of CLEMENTS BROTHERS

DATE OF BIRTH

ALFRED 7/12/1868 ww1 1914 age 46

ELIZABETH MAY1871 daughter

ARTHUR c 1874 ww1 1914 age 40

MATILDA 7/5/1876 daughter

CAROLINE? MAR 1879 daughter

GEORGE HENRY 11/04/1881 ww1 1914 age 33 60 White Lion Street, Pentonville (c 2011)

FREDERICK 22/09/1885 ww1 1914 age 29 60 White Lion Street, Pentonville (c 2011)

WILLIAM 28/09/1886 ww1 1914 age 23 60 White Lion Street, Pentonville (c 2011)

What Regiments were based near Pentonville, London in 1914?

Any help appreciated - thank you

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18 minutes ago, bala258 said:

Can the Medal Cards be sorted using date of birth + full name?

No they can't.

Lots of them don't even have full names, just initials.

Your best bet for Pentonville, which is I believe in Islington borough, is to search the Absent Voters List for Islington, which is available through Ancestry.

 

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12 hours ago, bala258 said:

Can the Medal Cards be sorted using date of birth + full name?

In my opinion - No.

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Did you mean to type c.2011? [or should that be 1911, from the Census perhaps?]

M

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delete - eyesight/brain playing up!
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3 minutes ago, Dai Bach y Sowldiwr said:

Your best bet for Pentonville, which is I believe in Islington borough, is to search the Absent Voters List for Islington, which is available through Ancestry.

Edit: The list for Islington is for Autumn 1919, by which time most soldiers had been discharged.

Can't immediately find any Clements...

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/61320/

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Anyone seen anything useful in the 1921 Census?

Do either of these suit for the younger lads?

Fred Clements  1885  Islington, London, England  Islington  Islington  London, Middlesex  - Mary Ann, Elizabeth & 4 others also recorded

William Clements  1886  Kings Cross, London, England  Islington  Islington  London, Middlesex - Betsy & Winnie also recorded

Can't read the records in full so no idea of the addresses [but they might possibly have been same back in 1919??] 

M

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Did any of them marry during the wartime years? Grooms occupation on the marriage certificate should show as a minimum rank & regiment \ corps, although sometimes it will just say soldier and other times much more. Or if it's not soldier then occupation may also indicate whether they were likely to be exempt when conscription was introduced in 1916.

For those who were married, then did any of the marriages produce children during the wartime years. Fathers' occupation again will help, plus if the father was the informant who registered the birth that will give you his whereabouts as the certificate asks for name and address.

And for those old enough to have children who could have married during the wartime years, the fathers' occupation on the marriage certificate may help.

13 hours ago, bala258 said:

Can the Medal Cards be sorted using date of birth + full name?
I have eight brothers and sisters did they serve during WW!?

Those who saw home service only did not qualify for service medals and so won't routinely have Medal Index Cards. For those home service only men who were discharged fully before the end of the conflict, then they may have a MiC for their Silver War Badge, but thats a comparative minority.

13 hours ago, bala258 said:

What Regiments were based near Pentonville, London in 1914?

If they did enlist in 1914, and that's a big assumption, it's been discussed on the forum before how the War Office was slow to sanction the raising of additional battalions for the regiments associated with the big metropolises and so volunteers were sent elsewhere. The County of Norfolk were tasked with raising four wartime only service battalions, and I would say approximately 1,000 men who filled their ranks were London men who had no connection to the county. That was a pattern being repeated around the country.

Cheers,
Peter

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This is/was my very first forum entry and I want to thank you all for your responses - so very useful.

Lots for me to study.

Three brothers lived at 60 White Lion Street, Pentonville in the 1880's. I need to find the electoral roll to check out the family.

Thank you all 

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