Lives of the First World War

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ID: 1061537

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=D2048983
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UPP: GBM/MCI/1062510

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7339649

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/758078/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/591595

Additional: This record has been automatically matched to the Life Story by IWM, using rules based on name, rank, number, regiment and service.

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 8723273

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Anne1202

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0544131

Additional: Names, service number and date of death match the records of the CWGC.

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

Source information

ID: 8723303

Title: Commemorative Badge Mccrae;s Battalion

Description: Badge to commemorate the memory of Sir George McCrae's Battalion in WW1. Serjeant Duncan Currie, a member of this battalion fell on the first day of the Somme.

Connected by: Anne1202

Source information

ID: 9090256

Title: Football and the first world war

Description: Information on the service record of Duncancurrie

Connected by: Katherine27600

URL: http://www.footballandthefirstworldwar.org/duncan-currie-service-record/
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ID: 9090259

Title: McCrae's battallion trust

Description: Information on the members of the Hearts 1914 team who joined en masse to fight in WW1

Connected by: Katherine27600

URL: http://www.mccraesbattaliontrust.org.uk/the-sporting-battalion/
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ID: 9090273

Name: Friday November 11 2016

Title: News.co.uk: Footballers who lost their lives in WW1

Description: An article on some of the footballers who fought in WW1. There is a photo of him.

Connected by: Katherine27600

URL: https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/fifa-poppy-row-footballers-lost-lives-ww1/
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Additional: The names match as do the military details.

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ID: 9090276

Name: by Vince Cooper | Nov 12, 2017 | The Big Feature

Title: McCraes battalion

Description: Information on the footballers who joined the 16th Scots battalion.

Connected by: Katherine27600

URL: https://readtheleague.com/the-big-feature/mccraes-battalion
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Additional: The names match and the military details confirm the match.

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ID: 9543373

Title: Book

Description: Mc Crae's Battalion. Duncan Currie is mentioned several times in this book. See Story.

Connected by: Cynthia60869

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