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ID: 1392549

Reference: WO372/8

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.

UPP: GBM/MCI/1394246

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7619952

Title: 2nd Lieut Reginald Malpas Gore, 49th Infantry AIF

Description: In uniform of 49th Infantry Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in Egypt 1916 following the Gallipoli operation in 1915, and after receiving his commission as a 2nd Lieut in that regiment on transfer from 9th Infantry AIF.

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Additional: Family photo of my father

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ID: 7620255

Title: 9th & 10th Battalions AIF at Cairo, December 1914

Description: Australian infantry at Mena Camp, Cairo (including Private Reggie Gore, 9th AIF) preparing for the Gallipoli campaign and their bloody amphibious assault which began the 8 month operation at ANZAC Beach on 25th April 1915. The Kangaroos they brought were handed over to Cairo Zoo when the Australians left for Gallipoli

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Additional: Photo: Australian War Memorial Collection Database. ID No. CO2588 [Public Domain]. ANZAC DAY which is the major war commemorated in Australia and New Zealand falls each year on 25th April, the day when so many of their soldiers were killed on the Gallipoli beaches

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ID: 7620261

Title: Capt Reginald Malpas Gore, 8th Punjab Regt, India

Description: Captain Gore, Indian Army, in uniform, circa 1930

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Additional: Family collection photo of my father

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ID: 7620272

Title: Medals of Lt Col Reginald Malpas Gore, Indian Army

Description: Lt Col RM Gore's medals covering the period 1914-1947 over which he served throughout both World Wars fighting at Gallipoli 1915, on the Western Front in France and Belgium 1916-17, between the wars in Iraq and the North-West Frontier Province of India and in Burma (where he earned a KPM for gallantry), and finally in Burma in WWII where he was in both Arakan campaigns as CO of battalions of the 8th Punjab Regiment. He retired from the Army on Indian independence in 1947.

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Additional: Family memorabilia of my father. The medals are currently under consideration for donation to the National Army Museum, London.

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ID: 7620834

Name: ISBN 9780953091225

Reference: Website given below

Title: On Kentish Chalk: A Farming Family of the North Downs

Description: A history of a widespread Kentish family to which the subject belongs and in which he figures frequently in Chapters 8, 9 & 10. Family pedigree at page 103. Website at:- http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hrpS_YQ9FoAC&lpg=PP1&dq=On%20Kentish%20Chalk&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=On%20Kentish%20Chalk&f=false

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ID: 7620838

Name: Part of Families in British India Society (FIBIS) website

Title: FIBIS (Soldiers) Reginald Malpas Gore

Description: Details of the military career of Lt Col RM Gore concentrating on that part of it spent in the Indian Army 1918-47.

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URL: http://www.wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Reginald_Malpas_Gore
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ID: 8481348

Name: Amazon Kindle

Title: "On Kentish Chalk - A Farming Family of the North Downs" (Revised Kindle version)

Description: Revised history of the Gore family of Kent which includes a description of the subject's life and army career.

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URL: http://www.amazon.co.uk/KENTISH-CHALK-Farming-Family-North-ebook/dp/B00XLCK9LY/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432113536&sr=1-1&keywords=On+Kentish+Chalk
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Additional: He was my late father whose Australian Army records and medals I hold

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ID: 8714214

Title: On ANZAC Beach, GALLIPOLI, the 1915 Centenary

Description: Australians & New Zealanders assembled on 25th April 2015 in the early morning dark to coincide with the time the first boats of the assault landing reached the beachhead. In one of those boats was Private Reginald Gore of the 9th Battalion AIF, just aged 20. He had arrived in Queensland as an English immigrant the previous year, volunteered in Sept and arrived on this hostile Turkish coast with a steep rock face to climb under fire. Then, having survived the failure and heavy losses of the 8 month campaign, he was sent with 49th AIF to the trenches in France where his elder brother, Sydney, had been killed in Oct 1914

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ID: 8715400

Title: Australians move from Egypt to the Western Front

Description: Reginald Gore was among 14 officers and 500 men of the 9th Battalion AIF in Egypt who survived the Gallipoli campaign and were selected in Feb 1916 to be the core of the newly formed 49th AIF. The 49th, with new recruits mostly from Queensland, trained in Egypt and reached the Western Front on 2nd June 1916. From then they took their full part in the trench warfare battles in France and Belgium for the rest of the war (described at https://www.awm.gov.au/unit/U51489/ ). Reginald Gore was there until 1918 when he was granted a commission as a Lieutenant in the Indian Army. Photo: Australians at Anzac Ridge in the Ypres salient

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ID: 8715753

Title: Emblem of the 90th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army

Description: After the post-war disbandment of 1/88th Carnatic Infantry with which Reginald Gore had served in Iraq, he transferred to the 90th Punjab Regiment in 1921 when they were on operations in the troublesome land of Waziristan (now in Pakistan). He was to return there later in 1930 for another two year operational tour by which time the 90th had had a change of name and become 2nd Battalion 8th Punjab Regiment. They still retain the ‘Chinthe’ as their emblem, the mythical lion-dragon which guards Buddhist pagodas (see centre of 90th emblem above)

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Additional: The item belonged to and had been worn by the subject

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ID: 8716111

Title: David, son of Reginald Gore, in Burma 1933

Description: The family were living at Loimwe in the Shan States of Burma where Capt Reginald Gore was seconded to the Burma Military Police. Here he had, inter alia, to deal with organised gangs of armed bandits up to 400 in strength crossing the Chinese border. In the 1933-34 season he led the action against three serious incursions so effectively that he was awarded the “King’s Police Medal for Gallantry”. IWM includes his wife, Elizabeth née Mayne, who worked for the Red Cross in France during WW1 at https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/5148359

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Additional: Origin family collection

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ID: 8716211

Title: Elizabeth and Reginald in Burma

Description: In the garden of their bungalow at Loimwe which lay alongside primary jungle and a large lake. Elephants and other wild animals frequently visited the lake and occasionally their garden by night!

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Additional: Gore family collection

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ID: 8716221

Title: 1st Battalion, 88th Carnatic Infantry, Indian Army

Description: In 1918, the last year of the war, Lieut Reginald Gore was transferred to the Indian Army from the Australian’s with whom he had shared the trenches of the Western Front. He joined the 1/88th Carnatic Infantry which had an ethnic composition of Madras Musalmans, Tamils, Paraiyans & Christians, very different to the Punjab regiments of north India which Gore was to join in 1921. As the November Armistice arrived, his new regiment moved to Mespot (Iraq) in the campaign to support the British mandated occupation. Finally in 1920, as the 1/88th were leaving for India, came the ‘Iraq Revolt’ in which 10,000 Iraqis and some 500 British and Indians died. The 1/88th was disbanded in 1921-22 and Gore went north to the Punjab

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ID: 8716235

Title: Officers 2/8th Punjab Regiment: Waziristan 1936-37

Description: This was Major Gore’s second operational tour in Waziristan. The subscript reads:- "Taken at Biche Kashkai during the present ops. Nothing but what we stood up in - not even a cake of soap! 15 days out like this, fighting every day and often during the night.” L to R: Henry Stead, Tom Edwards, Jonah, Reggie Gore, John Woodhouse. Two years later Lt Col Gore was back in Burma fighting in WW2. He retired when India became independent in 1947

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Additional: Family collection

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ID: 8720669

Title: 2/8th Punjab Regiment operations Waziristan 1936

Description: The "War Flag" of 2nd Battalion 8th Punjab Regiment on operations in Waziristan 1936-37

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Additional: Gore family collection

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ID: 8729151

Title: Captain Reginald Malpas Gore, Indian Army

Description: In full uniform, 1920s

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ID: 8785208

Reference: anz_first_au_imp

Title: First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossier Index 1914-1968 Transcription

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UPP: ANZ/FIRST-AU0IMP/200354

Credit: © The National Archives of Australia

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ID: 8785210

Reference: au_aif_nominal_roll

Title: Australian Imperial Force Nominal Roll 1914-1918 Transcription

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UPP: ANZ/AIF/NOMINALROLL/79839

Credit: © Australian War Memorial

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ID: 8785211

Reference: au_aif_embarkation_roll

Title: Australian Imperial Force Embarkation Roll 1914-1918 Transcription

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UPP: ANZ/AIF/EMBARKATIONROLL/181827

Credit: © Australian War Memorial

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ID: 8785214

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/D/1969/2/AZ/000437/066

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8785215

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1901/0005826151

Credit: © General Register Office