Lives of the First World War

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ID: 165627

Reference: WO372/1

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=D1151175
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UPP: GBM/MCI/0165751

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7443294

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/772347/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/603715

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: 8523509

Name: 1889 Q4 Oct - Nov - Dec

Title: England &Wales Free Birth Index, 1837 - 1915

Description: Registration of his birth as Albert Stanley Fleming Bancroft. The first name was clearly never used.

Connected by: Alan73775

URL: http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/8912/ONS_B18894AZ-0321/45186965?backurl=http://person.ancestry.co.uk/tree/8593612/person/-802609359/facts/citation/654433262/edit/record
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Additional: This record provides his full name and year of birth

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ID: 8523512

Name: Page 115, Parish of Birkenhead, Cheshire

Title: 1901 England Census

Description: This shows a family listing for 1901 and includes my great grandparents, grandfather and great uncle, Stanley Fleming Bancroft

Connected by: Alan73775

URL: http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/7814/CHSRG13_3395_3397-0985/20165247?backurl=http://person.ancestry.co.uk/tree/8593612/pers
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Additional: I have researched my family line through my paternal grandparents and have considerable evidence to support this.

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ID: 8523514

Name: Page 197 Peckham North

Title: 1911 England & Wales Census

Description: This shows the he had moved to London to train as a Journalist and had dropped his first name. He shows his birth town of Birkenhead, Cheshire.

Connected by: Alan73775

URL: http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/2352/rg14_02556_0393_03/4032105?backurl=http://person.ancestry.co.uk/tree/8593612/person/-802609359/facts
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Additional: This page shows his personal progress and development.

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ID: 8523519

Name: DYC 498455

Reference: Copy obtained from the General Registry Office

Title: Copy of his fathers death certificate, signed by Stanley Fleming Bancroft

Description: This is a full Death Certificate for his father Andrew Fleming Bancroft dated 1911 and signed by Stanley Fleming Bancroft

Connected by: Alan73775

Additional: This confirms that Stanley had dropped the use of his first name Albert by this time.

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ID: 8523527

Name: Westminster, Christ Church, Marylebone P112

Title: London, England, Marriage Banns, 1754 - 1921

Description: Attached Kimmel Camp, North Wales. Shown as Lieutenant.

Connected by: Alan73775

URL: http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1623/31280_198809-00074/4032141?backurl=http://person.ancestry.co.uk/tree/8593612/person/-802609359/facts
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Additional: This provides further detail about Stanley at the time he was training and before going to France.

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ID: 8536127

Name: V 8a, page 512

Title: Free BMD Birth Index

Description: Born in October 1889, Birkenhead, Cheshire

Connected by: Alan73775

URL: http://person.ancestry.co.uk/tree/8593612/person/-802609359/facts
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Additional: All family records indicate this is the correct person

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