Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 1513476

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=D2501815
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UPP: GBM/MCI/1515342

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 6628265

Title: CWGC Cemetery

Description: Attached are details of the CWGC Cemetery in France where Sidney is buried.

Connected by: Graham34097

Additional: This was obtained from the CWGC website.

Source information

ID: 6628287

Title: Plan of Steenwerck cemetery

Description: As above

Connected by: Graham34097

Additional: Plan of cemetery Sidney is buried in ||| E 20

Source information

ID: 6628303

Title: Copy of the official cemetery entry from CWGC

Description: As above

Connected by: Graham34097

Additional: this the register for the cemetery showing where Sidney is laid to rest .

Source information

ID: 6628387

Title: photo of the cemetery

Description: photo of the cemetery at Steenwerck from CWGC

Connected by: Graham34097

Additional: This is a photo of the cemetery where Sidney is buried in a quiet part of France near to the Belgium border.

Source information

ID: 6630591

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Graham34097

UPP: BMD/B/1899/2/AZ/000254/204

Additional: this confirms Sydney's birth in 1899 in South Shields

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 6630599

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Graham34097

UPP: GBC/1901/0030544702

Additional: 1901 census records show his family details

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 6630620

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Graham34097

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/30314/0597/4

Additional: 1911census details show his family details also Sidney was one of seven , siblings at that time including my own grandmother on my mother side Florence May and various great aunts

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 6630632

Reference: bmd_overseas_deaths_arr1

Title: GRO WAR DEATHS ARMY OTHER RANKS (1914 to1921) Transcription

Connected by: Graham34097

UPP: BMD/OVS/ARR1/001522/137

Additional: This is the official death record for Sidney who died on the 12th April 1918 aged only 18 killed in action.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 6630657

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Graham34097

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0265094

Additional: official transcript of Sidney's death in the Great War .

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

Source information

ID: 6631946

Title: Photo of Sidney

Description: This is an old family photo of Sidney his age when it was taken is unknown.

Connected by: Graham34097

Source information

ID: 6632080

Title: Personal Knowledge of Graham Fisher

Description: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

Connected by: Graham34097

Additional: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

Source information

ID: 6633652

Title: burial return

Description: this document refers to re burial from the German Steenwerck burial site to Le Grand Beaumont Cemetery in Steenwerck .

Connected by: Graham34097

Additional: This has been obtained from the CWGC.

Source information

ID: 6633792

Title: CWGC. casualty records

Description: This is a photo of the CWGC casualty record

Connected by: Graham34097

Additional: As above

Source information

ID: 6633804

Title: CWGC casualty records .

Description: As above.

Connected by: Graham34097

Additional: This shows the casualty records and next of kin his father Edward Haggerty .

Source information

ID: 7109471

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/204391/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/155983

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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