Lives of the First World War

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ID: 1585884

Reference: WO372/9

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/1587868

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6977904

Name: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Jan 2011

Title: Harvey, Frederick William (1888–1957)

Description: ODNB entry for Frederick William Harvey Full reference: Peter Childs, ‘Harvey, Frederick William (1888–1957)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/75642, accessed 24 Sept 2014]

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URL: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/75642
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Additional: Names, regiment, rank and places match.

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ID: 6977917

Title: F.W. Harvey Society

Description: A society to promote the legacy of F. W. Harvey which was founded on 31st January 2010.

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URL: http://www.fwharveysociety.co.uk/
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Additional: The website is about the life and work of Frederick William Harvey, particularly in Gloucestershire.

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ID: 8657971

Title: Frederick William Harvey

Description: Frederick William Harvey DCM (26 March 1888 – 13 February 1957), often known as Will Harvey, and dubbed "the Laureate of Gloucestershire", was an English poet, broadcaster and solicitor whose poetry became popular during and after World War I.On 8 August 1914, only four days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany, Harvey joined the 5th battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment as a private. Shortly afterwards, in November, he became a Roman Catholic. He was an adherent of the distributism movement, described as a "third way", in opposition to both socialism and capitalism; and he was influenced by the work of G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc. His battalion was posted to France in March 1915, where he was promoted to lance corporal and awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal.He returned to England for officer training, but after being commissioned and returning to France he was captured on 17 August 1916 in the German front-line trench on a reconnaissance mission.

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ID: 9568130

Title: Harvey's "Cricket: The Catch"

Description: Poem with biographical details and discussion

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URL: https://behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2016/08/cricket-in-war-time.html
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ID: 9593531

Title: FW Harvey's memorial in Gloucester Cathedral

Description: Lines are from his poem "FWH, A Portrait"

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