Lives of the First World War

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ID: 1450927

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.

URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D2439142
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UPP: GBM/MCI/1452669

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7435621

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/840661/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/668724

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: 8791758

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: BMD/B/1895/2/AZ/000239/067

Additional: The name Charles William Greenaway in the birth record matches Charles William Greenaway in the Life Story.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 8791770

Name: 2016 Stamford Boys - supported by Stamford Civic Society - registered charity no. 242571.

Title: Charles William Greenaway

Description: A Research Project based in Stamford Lincolnshire. This page is about Charles William Greenaway born 1895 in Hornsey Middlesex Service Number 14983 9th Infantry Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://stamfordboys.uk/greenaway-charles-william/
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Additional: Charles William Greenaway born 1895 Service Number 14983 Leicestershire Regiment matches. Hornsey is in the Edmonton Registration District so that matches as well.

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ID: 8792092

Name: Rutland Remembers 2014 - 2018

Title: Charles William Greenaway

Description: First Paragraph " Charles William Greenaway died during the Third Battle of Ypres alongside his company commander. He was the son of George Greenaway and his wife of Tickencote, and enlisted in the 9th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment in September 1914 answering the appeal by Lord Kitchener. Charles went to France on 19 July l915 and was killed in action at Polygon Wood on 1 October 1917. "

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URL: http://www.rutlandremembers.org/fallen/194/greenaway-private-charles-william
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Additional: Charles William Greenaway, Service Number 14983 Private of the Leicestershire Regiment killed in action on the 1 October 1917 matches the information in this Life Story.

Source information

ID: 8792180

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/19417/0203/3

Additional: Charles William Greenaway born in 1895 in Middlesex.

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 8792194

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBC/1901/0010485936

Additional: The transcription shows Charles William Greenaway aged six, born in 1895 in Hornsey Middlesex matching the information in the life story.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 8792197

Reference: gbm_wo363-4

Title: British Army Service Records 1914-1920 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBM/WO363-4/7389202/1/13

Additional: Charles William Greenaway born in 1895 in Hornsey Middlesex matches the information in the Life Story.

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8792283

Name: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore:

Title: Private Charles W Greenaway, 14983

Description: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland. First Paragraph first and second line " killed in action in Polygon Wood during the third Battle Of Ypres, in which his battalion gained a splendid and most important success. "

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URL: http://www.leicestershirewarmemorials.co.uk/war/casualty/view/24791
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Additional: Private Charles W Greenaway, 14983 matches the information for Private Charles William Greenaway.

Source information

ID: 8792294

Name: The Book of Household Management by Mrs. Isabella Beeton (1907).

Title: Footman

Description: Secondary Reference Mrs. Seely's Cook Book and Manual on Domestic Servants by Mrs. L. Seely (1902). First Paragraph Generally Recognised Duties of the Footman.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://www.avictorian.com/servants_footmen.html
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Additional: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland says that Private Charles William Greenaway was a Footman before the 1914 - 18 War.

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