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Looking for Grandads 1st WW record

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Colin

Colin Report 13 May 2014 23:17

Thank you Kath.
Colin.

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 13 May 2014 16:53

This is the reference for the death certificate if you don't already have it:-

First name(s) JAMES
Last name LACEY
Gender Male
Birth day -
Birth month -
Birth year 1888
Age 59
Death quarter 3
Death year 1947
District EASTBOURNE
District number -
County Sussex
Country England
Volume 5H
Page 181

Kath. x

Potty

Potty Report 13 May 2014 15:16

Colin. have PM'd you the medal card. Try this link for the Guards Museum and then click on Family Research tab at top of page:

http://www.theguardsmuseum.com/

There is a phone No for the Grenadier Guards Archivist.

Colin

Colin Report 13 May 2014 14:54

Thank you Potty, we do not have his medal card and would be very grateful to receive it. The page on the first link was temp unavailable but the second one was very interesting.
Colin.

Potty

Potty Report 13 May 2014 14:26

Using this site:

http://armyservicenumbers.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/grenadier-guards.html

he would have joined between 3rd December 1916 and 2nd Jan 1917.

Potty

Potty Report 13 May 2014 14:20

Grenadier Guards' records are held by the regiment. This site has info on how to obtain them:

http://www.theguardsmuseum.com/Family-Research.

His medal card is on Ancestry - do you have it? If not, let me know and I will send it to you.

Colin

Colin Report 13 May 2014 13:46

Thank you Kath, He actually died at Eastbourne in 1946/7 with a lung related disease .
His military records, like you said, were probably destroyed in the fire.
Colin.

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 13 May 2014 13:12

Do you know where he died? The death certificate should give his cause of death.

I can't see military records for him on Findmypast but about 70% of WW1 records were destroyed in a fire so they may not exist anymore.

Kath. x

Colin

Colin Report 13 May 2014 02:43

We are lead to believe that James Lacey, army service no Pt 27592 born 1887/8 at Liverpool, was in the Grenadier Guards. Posted to France, suffered the effects of "gassing" and taken prisoner of war. He died at the age of 59, said due to the gas.
Now, we are at a total loss as we can not find any records to support this theory.
Any help, information or advice would be very much appreciated,thank you.