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Sergeant Herbert Job POWNEY, Royal Garrison Artillery. Regiment No: 285999. Nature...
Catalogue reference: PIN 26/189
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This record is about the Sergeant Herbert Job POWNEY, Royal Garrison Artillery. Regiment No: 285999. Nature... dating from 1969 in the series Ministry of Pensions and successors: Selected First World War Pensions Award Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- PIN 26/189
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1969
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Description (What the record is about)
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Sergeant Herbert Job POWNEY, Royal Garrison Artillery. Regiment No: 285999.
Nature of Disability: deafness.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- 6/MP/4258
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Immediately
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Ministry of Pensions and successors: Selected First World War Pensions Award Files
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