Lives of the First World War

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ID: 1688511

Reference: WO372/6

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/1690576

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7050970

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

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/94087

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: 7606626

Title: Villiers Chernocke Downes

Description: In Uniform

Connected by: Paul33503

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ID: 7619382

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Adrienne2953

UPP: BMD/B/1891/2/AZ/000172/089

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 7619383

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Adrienne2953

UPP: GBC/1891/0009410605

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 7619384

Reference: gbm_derevigny

Title: De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918 Transcription

Connected by: Adrienne2953

UPP: GBM/DR/1972

Credit: © Naval and Military Press

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ID: 7619386

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Adrienne2953

UPP: GBM/WWISD/1012916

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 7619388

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Adrienne2953

UPP: GBC/1901/0010807856

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 7619397

Name: Website for Aspley Guise Roll of Honour

Title: Aspley Guise Roll of Honour

Description: Includes the two Downes brothers who fell in The Great War, Villiers and his brother Archer.

Connected by: Adrienne2953

URL: http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Bedfordshire/AspleyGuiseRollofHonour.html
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ID: 7619405

Name: Website of Winchester College

Title: Winchester College at War

Description: Biography of former student at Winchester College, V. C. Downes

Connected by: Adrienne2953

URL: http://www.winchestercollegeatwar.com/archive/villiers-chernocke-downes/
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ID: 7619423

Name: Census of England, Wales and Scotland, 1891

Reference: Search links to the original lives platform are not available

Title: 1891 Census Return, Chernocke Downes family

Description: Census return completed by Major Charles Villiers Downes (retd.)

Connected by: Adrienne2953

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ID: 8578512

Name: Vol. 1 Aug-Dec 1914; The Biographies: pg. 117

Title: The Bond of Sacrifice: Villiers Chernocke Downes

Description: Entry in "The Bond of Sacrifice: a biographical record of all British officers who fell in the Great War".

Connected by: Hannah21187

URL: https://archive.org/stream/bondofsacrificeb01clut#page/116/mode/2up
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ID: 8578513

Title: The Bond of Sacrifice: Villiers Chernocke Downes

Description: In uniform, as featured in "The Bond of Sacrifice"

Connected by: Hannah21187

Additional: Entry in "The Bond of Sacrifice" freely available at www.archive.org

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ID: 9097467

Title: Lieutenant Villiers Chernocke Downes

Description: Lieutenant Villiers Chernocke Downes. Unit: 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 18 October 1914 Western Front.

Connected by: James201

Additional: From the IWM Bond of Sacrifice Collection - http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205293838