WW 1 MEDALS

[jmadone]

Whilst looking at an auction catalogue today I came across the following described by the auctioneers as such:-


A little more investigation brought up the following:-


For a full description see De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour on Ancestry.

I always feel a little sad when I see military or sporting medals up for sale. I believe they should belong with the family but of course there may well be no family left to pass them on. There is no mention of the vendor or the circumstances which have brought about the sale.

 

[AnnS]

Yes it's a shame they may not have a family connection still living.

Same with photographs of course....

 

[Spargone]

Index No. M.R. 29 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Part XXXII (U.K.)

 

[MWS]

I don't think that's the same person.

 

[jmadone]

Index No. M.R. 29 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Part XXXII (U.K.)
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I don't think that's the same person.

Unfortunately not. He was a Sergeant in the Oxford & Bucks light Infantry.

 

[MWS]

I always feel a little sad when I see military or sporting medals up for sale. I believe they should belong with the family but of course there may well be no family left to pass them on. There is no mention of the vendor or the circumstances which have brought about the sale.

I wonder why he had an alias and about the spelling of Do Vey, his family from Kidderminster appear to be plain Dovey.

As there's no mention of a wife, I assume he wasn't married. He appears to have had 2 brothers (1 died young) and 2 sisters.

Both sisters married, Jemima - after 1901 listed as Mima - to a John Harry Howell and had one son - John Arnold Howell, and Eveline, unfortunately to a William Jones and possibly had a son and a daughter - Gilbert Albert and Eva Mary.

His brother Sidney Eric Dovey iis with his parents in 1921 and then nothing I can see.

 

[jmadone]

So there well may be extant family. I wonder if they are aware of the medal sale?

 

[Spargone]

I don't think that's the same person.

Index No. M.R. 29 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Part XXXII (U.K.)

Whoops! Getting careless in my old age.

 

[Tinpot]

One of the reasons I found the forum is that I needed to pass on some WW1 items to a family member but had lost any knowledge of their whereabouts. I have had a great deal of help from members looking backwards at family history but I need some advice as to how to search for living family.

 

[MWS]

Findmypast have ERs from 2002 to present day online but no numbers, just roads. However, if they tick the appropriate box when filling in their form they won't be listed.

Also there's facebook and the like, if you can narrow the choices down and online newspapers.

Obviously the more common the name the more difficult to be sure you have the correct person.

 

[Tinpot]

Findmypast have ERs from 2002 to present day online but no numbers, just roads. However, if they tick the appropriate box when filling in their form they won't be listed.

Also there's facebook and the like, if you can narrow the choices down and online newspapers.

Obviously the more common the name the more difficult to be sure you have the correct person.

Thanks MWS. Do you know if I would find any information on papers for probate? I am searching for the family of Elsie May Ford’s older brother George Henry Ford and his wife Norah Dutton. Both are deceased.

 

[pjmburns]

Have sent a PM so we don't go off topic.

 

[MWS]

Ok, just this then.

I couldn't see any probate.

And I vaguely remembered mentioning a Dutton previously and this post mentions Frederick, who seems to be Norah's brother at Hansons Bridge Road where George and Norah are in the 1960s.

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