Lives of the First World War

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ID: 173051

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.

UPP: GBM/MCI/0173183

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8449886

Reference: gbm_leic_rut

Title: Leicestershire and Rutland, Soldiers Died 1914-1920 Transcription

Connected by: Liz37211

UPP: GBM/LEIC-RUT/2007

Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast

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ID: 8449888

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Liz37211

UPP: BMD/B/1895/4/AZ/000030/029

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8449889

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Liz37211

UPP: GBC/1901/0019218250

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8449899

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Liz37211

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0072079

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 8568176

Name: National Army Museum; Chelsea, London, England; Soldiers' Effects Records, 1901-60

Title: UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929

Description: UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 at Ancestry.co.uk

Connected by: Liz37211

URL: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=UKArmyRegistersEffects&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=arthur+edwin&gsfn_x=0&gsln=barber&gsln_x=0&_F8007A65=235049&MSAV=0&uidh=xy8&pcat=39&fh=0&h=440084&recoff=3+4+65+66&ml_rpos=1
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ID: 9163418

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

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

Connected by: Liz37211

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/355875

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Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 9163428

Name: May 22, 1917, edition of the Market Harborough Advertiser

Title: Blog by John Dilley on the Newspapers and the Great War website (#2)

Description: Reports from the local newspapers of the day

Connected by: Liz37211

URL: https://newspapersandthegreatwar.wordpress.com/2017/05/22/may-22-1917-market-harboroughs-high-street-traders-provide-historical-hint-of-life-in-world-war-one-britain/
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ID: 9163429

Title: CALAIS SOUTHERN CEMETERY, FRANCE

Description: CWGC CEMETERY

Connected by: Liz37211

Additional: https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/470820/barber,-/

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ID: 9163432

Title: Pte. Edwin Barber

Description: In uniform

Connected by: Liz37211

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ID: 9163472

Name: May 15, 1917, edition of the Market Harborough Advertiser

Title: Blog by John Dilley on the Newspapers and the Great War website

Description: Reports from the local newspapers of the time

Connected by: Liz37211

URL: https://newspapersandthegreatwar.wordpress.com/2017/05/15/may-15-1917-wounded-soldier-brews-tea-surrounded-by-dead-and-dying-while-trapped-under-heavy-fire-in-a-shell-hole/
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ID: 9163511

Name: Lives page

Title: Link to brother, Eustace Cooper Barber

Description: Brothers served

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URL: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/173541
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ID: 9191998

Name: January 30, 1917, edition of the Market Harborough Advertiser

Title: Blog by John Dilley on the Newspapers and the Great War website (#3)

Description: Reports from the local newspapers of the day

Connected by: Liz37211

URL: https://newspapersandthegreatwar.wordpress.com/2017/01/30/january-30-1917-us-president-continues-to-push-for-peace/
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ID: 9207698

Name: July 18, 1916, edition of the Market Harborough Advertiser

Title: Blog by John Dilley on the Newspapers and the Great War website (#4)

Description: Reports from the local newspapers of the day.

Connected by: Liz37211

URL: https://newspapersandthegreatwar.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/july-18-1916-the-numbers-of-war-make-horrifying-reading/
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