no 724 pte. 8th NF

[nannacath]

Hi hope someone can help me find out something about my granddad Mr Henry J Ward from Blyth Northumberland, just found out he served in WW1. He was a miner in Northumberland. I never knew him but have started doing my family tree so would love to know more about him. Thanks for any assistance

[Lesley Robertson]

There is a medal card for him on Ancestry. It shows him as 24/724 Pte Henry Ward of the Northumberland Fusiliers. He qualified for the Victory and British medals, but not for the 1914/15 Star. It looks as though his service record was among the more than 60% destroyed in WW2.
Since he's not in the CWGC database, I assume that he survived WW1?

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[simmo1]

Hi

Not getting the 14-15 star meant he did not enter a theatre of war until after 1915.
Here is the war diary for the 8th Battalion, so you can read where he went. - https://discovery.nationalarchives.go...ils/r/C7352632
and - https://www.1914-1918.net/northfus.htm ( I would say he was just in France)

regards

Robert