Lives of the First World War

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ID: 1020723

Reference: WO372/5

Title: Medal Index Card

Description: Medal index cards were created by the Army Medal Office towards the end of the First World War. They record the medals that men and women who served in the First World War were entitled to claim.

URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D2008147
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UPP: GBM/MCI/1021674

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7350224

Reference: CWGCCASUALIWM

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records

Description: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) commemorate First World War servicemen and women and members of some civilian organisations who died before 31 August 1921 while in Commonwealth military service or of causes attributable to service.

Connected by: Imperial1

URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/757515/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/591035

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Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 8451389

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

UPP: BMD/B/1879/4/AZ/000126/223

Additional: Surname and other names, date of birth all match.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8451391

Reference: wwisd

Title: Soldiers died in the Great War 1914-1919 Transcription

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0333455

Additional: Surname and other name, and military details all match.

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 8451393

Reference: 1881gbc

Title: 1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

UPP: GBC/1881/0019308538

Additional: Surname and other name, date and place of birth all match.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8451394

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

UPP: GBC/1891/0023948642

Additional: Surname and other name, date and place of birth all match.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8451395

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

UPP: GBC/1901/0024384703

Additional: Surname and other name, date and place of birth all match.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8451396

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

UPP: BMD/D/1916/3/AZ/000169/066

Additional: Surname and other name, date and place of death all match.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8451444

Name: CL/29/24

Title: LancashireBMD/UKBMD - Births – Clitheroe Registration

Description: Lancashire Births – Clitheroe Registration

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

URL: http://www.ukbmdcertificateordering.co.uk/certapp.php?type=births&data=CROASDALE|Henry%20Hargreaves|Clitheroe|Preston|1879|1879||RI%3aCL%2f29%2f24|C|309326|lancashire|PN|HARGREAVES&lang=
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Additional: Surname and other names, date and place of birth all match.

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ID: 8451446

Name: Register: Baptisms 1875 - 1900, Page 16, Entry 125

Title: Lancashire On-Line Parish Clerk – Christ Church, Chatburn

Description: Chatburn Baptisms 1875 - 1900

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

URL: http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Chatburn/index.html
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ID: 8451452

Name: Reg. Dist. No. 477, ED Institution No. 25, Household schedule no. 5

Title: Ancestry - England & Wales 1911 Census - Blackpool

Description: England & Wales 1911 Census - Blackpool

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

URL: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?MS_AdvCB=1&rank=1&new=1&MSAV=2&gss=angs-c&gsfn=henry+h&gsfn_x=XO&gsln_x=XO&msbdy=1879&msbdy_x=1&msbpn__ftp=Chatburn%2c+Lancashire%2c+England&msbpn=84807&msbpn_PInfo=8-|0|0|3257|3251|0|0|0|5271|84807|0|&msbpn_x=XO&msbpn__ftp_x=1&cpxt=1&uidh=ay3&msbdp=2&cp=11&pcat=35&h=60102974&db=1911England&indiv=1&ml_rpos=1
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Additional: Surname and other name, date and place of birth and sister all match.

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ID: 8451455

Name: 13027

Title: British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920

Description: Medals awarded

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

URL: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?MS_AdvCB=1&rank=1&new=1&MSAV=2&msT=1&gss=angs-c&gsfn=henry&gsfn_x=XO&gsln=croasdale&gsln_x=XO&cpxt=1&uidh=ay3&cp=11&pcat=39&h=3677875&recoff=9+11&db=MedalRolls&indiv=1&ml_rpos=13
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Additional: Surname and other name, and military details all match.

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ID: 8451456

Name: 13027

Title: British Army WW1 Service Records, 1914-20

Description: Henry H Croasdale's service record

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

URL: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?MS_AdvCB=1&rank=1&new=1&MSAV=2&msT=1&gss=angs-c&gsfn=henry&gsfn_x=XO&gsln=croasdale&gsln_x=XO&cpxt=1&uidh=ay3&cp=11&pcat=39&h=383465&db=BritishArmyService&indiv=1&ml_rpos=6
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Additional: Surname and other name, and military details all match.

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ID: 8451457

Name: 13027

Title: UK, Army Register of Soldiers’ Effects, 1901-1929

Description: Soldiers' Effects.

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

URL: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?MS_AdvCB=1&rank=1&new=1&MSAV=2&msT=1&gss=angs-c&gsfn=henry&gsfn_x=XO&gsln=croasdale&gsln_x=XO&cpxt=1&uidh=ay3&cp=11&pcat=39&h=143926&recoff=3+5&db=UKArmyRegistersEffects&indiv=1&ml_rpos=15
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Additional: Surname and other name, and military details all match.

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ID: 8480377

Title: Henry Hargreaves Croasdale

Description: Published in Fleetwood Express – 19 July 1916

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

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ID: 8494411

Title: Henry Hargreaves Croasdale Obituary - part 1

Description: Published in Fleetwood Express – 15 July 1916

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

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ID: 8494412

Title: Henry Hargreaves Croasdale Obituary - part 2

Description: Published in Fleetwood Express – 15 July 1916

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

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ID: 8494416

Title: Henry Hargreaves Croasdale Funeral - part 1

Description: Published in Fleetwood Express – 19 July 1916

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

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ID: 8494417

Title: Henry Hargreaves Croasdale Funeral - part 2

Description: Published in Fleetwood Express – 19 July 1916

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

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ID: 8494418

Title: Henry Hargreaves Croasdale Funeral - part 3

Description: Published in Fleetwood Express – 19 July 1916

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

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ID: 8494421

Title: Henry Hargreaves Croasdale Funeral - part 4

Description: Published in Fleetwood Express – 19 July 1916

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

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ID: 8499137

Title: Pte. Harry Croasdale - Wounded

Description: Published in Fleetwood Express – 26 Apr 1916

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

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ID: 8499138

Title: Blackpool Man Wounded

Description: Published in Fleetwood Express – 29 Apr 1916

Connected by: Fleetwood63833

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ID: 8568905

Title: Grave Stone of Pte Harry Croasdale

Description: grave stone at Layton Cemetery Blackpool,Lancashire. grave contains Matilda (Harrys sister and her ex husband} and Pte Harry Croasdale

Connected by: kevin65182

Additional: I kevin Cunningham took this Photo abt 2000

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ID: 8568923

Title: Brown Cow Inn

Description: Brown Cow Inn location Chatburn Village, Lancashire

Connected by: kevin65182

Additional: I took this picture in Chatburn about 2000 while researching my wifes Croasdale family tree

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