Found my grandad's medal from world war 1.

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Hello

we found his medal from world war 1. It says the following:

4870
Pte d white
R. Muns. Fusi

he was from Ireland. I know that Fusi is short for fusilier (I think)

I've Googled everything that's on the medal but nothing is coming up

I told my irish family I would investigate, find out what it was he did in the war etc. He did survive, albeit less one eye, but that's all I know.

I'm at a loss as to where to go from here!

Can anyone shed any light or help at all? Here are pics

What a great thread, people are so helpful and kind

OP, just for background reading I recommend A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry. It's the story of a young Dublin boy signing up in 1914 for King and Country and how the times change around him. Illuminating and very very touching.

I've asked mumsnet to please move this thread to classics or somewhere it won't be deleted due to the excellent links on here.

Good thinking helga thank you

also thanks for the book recommendation, 7.

A LOT of info has been exchanged between myself and my 2 relatives I found on the ancestry website. Such valuable information. I have a head cold at the moment so I'm finding it extra difficult to get my head around it all.

I'm working tomorrow so I'll (ironically) have more time to look through it and will update if anyone is interested

Hello everyone,

I am trying to draw out my family tree. I want to do it electronically. I've googled "family tree templates" but this is no good as I would have to print it out and write on it.

Have also tried familyecho.com - have filled it all out, fine, but can't now seem to download it.

Can anyone recommend a way of doing this please?

Thanks in advance for any help xx

Very interested!

I always use genealogy software, as you can keep all the different types of info in one place and then print it out in various ways, including different views of the tree.

But you may not want to invest in that.

thanks Surely

Just quickly, before I leave the office...there are many branches off branches on the family tree (as I imagine all family trees are) - however I can only view one section of family at a time. What I want to be able to do is see EVERYTHING at one time...IYSWIM?

How do you like the format on the Ancestry online trees? Lots going down, lots going up, so you can see quite a lot of structure at once (and zoom in and out).

I don't know if their Family Tree Maker package does that offline as well, but worth looking into. I seem to remember one package did rotating 3D trees as well (!!), but decided that was all too much for me!

3D? Blimey! Defo too much

Yes, I like the one on Ancestry.co.uk. I will not be paying for the subscription though, so I didn't bother to look into whether I could do it offline. I will look into it now!

It is a general problem that you just can't see everything at once.

When I'm sharing stuff, I usually do a descendants tree going down from a patriarch + matriarch, then several trees going up showing individuals their ancestors full ancestor sets.

iFamily, which I use, can add lists of siblings for each spouse on the tree, which helps slightly.

their ancestors full ancestor sets

I quite liked using poppet.com for family tree stuff. But worth backing everything up elsewhere as you never know when a company like that will vanish.

hehe I went to poppet.com and it came up with a moshi monsters website

Oh bloody autocorrect. Should be popplet.com.

Though I could well be descended from moshi monsters

Redtoothbrush My aunt rang me this afternoon and she was equally thrilled about what you have found out. She said my Great Uncle (nephew of Harold and my Grandma's brother)would be interested too. She told me where The Red House was and also that my Grandma used to talk about visiting her Grandma there! The next thing to do is to try and find Uncle Harold's grave at Saxtead. My aunt says he died of cancer when he was in his 40's!

What a fascinating thread.
I'm a proud keeper of my Great Uncle's WW1 medals and my father's WW2 medals - he was named after his uncle who was killed at the Somme.
My Great Aunt had kept the notification dated 1921, which I still have, giving very precise directions to where her brother's body was re-interred.

A few years ago I was able to visit the very beautiful small cemetery in France and several members of the family have visited since. By a strange coincidence I was there on the 80th anniversary of his death. His battalion is described as marching into the mist and that was exactly how it was on the morning we searched for the place - the local village named in the document had been destroyed completely and must have been rebuilt slightly further east. The mist lifted and the sun came out as we walked into the cemetery.

Having now done quite a lot of research my brother and I have discovered that our father must have passed quite close to the cemetery where his uncle lies when his regiment moved through France in 1944 a generation later.

My grandfather also served in the Great War. He was called up as a reservist having served in the Boer War. He doesn't appear on the 1901 census because he was with the army in South Africa.

Hi everyone, what a great thread. We've moved it to History Club to preserve it!

Thank you Amy :)

I know this thread is old, but I keep sharing it for its excellent links.

So I'd like to add here a project by the Imperial War Museum to record the stories of ALL who served in the First World War:

livesofthefirstworldwar.org

"Help us tell the stories of 8 million men and women and ensure they are not forgotten"

The Imperial War Museum was founded in 1917 ‘not as a monument to military glory’, but to record the 'toil and sacrifice’ of everyone who had served in uniform or worked on the home front during the First World War.

Now, in the digital age, we can work together to achieve that vision by creating the permanent digital memorial. 8 million men and women from across Britain and the Commonwealth contributed to the First World War – help ensure they are not forgotten and that their stories are properly told and saved for future generations.