Lives of the First World War

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ID: 1599893

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.

URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D2588356
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UPP: GBM/MCI/1601883

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6182746

Name: Volume: Volume 1 Page: 175

Title: Leonard John Harrison: De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-1924

Description: Article from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-1924 found on the Ancestry website

Connected by: Anne31131

URL: http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1637/de_ruv_vol1_pg_0175/2970?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3findiv%3d1%26MS_AdvCB%3d1%26db%3dDeRuvigny%26rank%3d1%26new%3d1%26MSAV%3d2%26gss%3dangs-d%26gsfn%3dLeonard%26gsfn_x%3dXO%26gsln%3dHarrison%26gsln_x%3dXO%26uidh%3dlc2%26pcat%3d39%26fh%3d0%26h%3d2970%26recoff%3d3%2b5%26ml_rpos%3d1&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord
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Additional: The person's surname and other military details match

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ID: 8728272

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records Transcription

Connected by: Desmond1478

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/852089

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 8731270

Title: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial

Description: Dedicated to those that made the ultimate sacrifice that have no known grave.

Connected by: Desmond1478

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ID: 8731276

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Desmond1478

UPP: GBC/1901/0014058089

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8924400

Title: War Memorial St Mary the Virgin, Yelverton. NFK

Description: West end of nave. Oak Plaque. Lt. Harrison's name is at the top. Photo - Paul Budd

Connected by: Cynthia60869

Additional: He is also remembered on a brass plaque on the N wall of the Chancel - 'TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF LEONARD JOHN HARRISON, LIEUTENANT LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS, AGED 19 YEARS, ELDEST SON OF ARTHUR LEONARD HARRISON, RECTOR OF THIS PARISH, AND ETHEL HIS WIFE, WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS KING AND COUNTRY GALLANTLY LEADING HIS MEN FORWARD NEAR YPRES ON MAY 24TH 1915.THIS CHANCEL SCREEN IS DEDICATED BY HIS PARENTS, BROTHERS AND FRIENDSLORD, VOUCHSAFE HIM LIGHT AND REST, PEACE AND REFRESHMENT IN PARADISE, IN THE COMPANIONSHIP OF SAINTS, IN THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST, IN THE AMPLE FOLDS OF THY GREAT LOVE'.A further memorial is in the form of a processional cross erected above the Chancel Screen on his 20th birthday - 'TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF JACK FROM HIS FATHER AND MOTHER ARTHUR LEONARD AND ETHEL HARRISON NOVEMBER 21ST 1915

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ID: 8924403

Title: PHOTO

Description: From a booklet in Yelverton Church, Norfolk researched by Mike Wooldridge.

Connected by: Cynthia60869

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ID: 9044286

Title: Inscription

Description: Menin Gate Memorial

Connected by: Cynthia60869

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