Lives of the First World War

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ID: 184242

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/0184379

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8570039

Title: CWGC entry

Description: Rank:Brigadier General Date of Death:24/03/1918 Age:48 Regiment/Service:General Staff Cdg. 99th Infantry Brigade formerly Royal Welsh Fusiliers Awards:D S O and Bar Grave Reference: Sp. Mem. 4. Cemetery:ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Additional Information:Son of Maj. John Barnett Barker (late Northumberland Fusiliers); husband of Ellinor Gertrude Barnett-Barker, of Pant-y-goitre, Abergavenny, Mon.

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URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/551618/BARNETT-BARKER,%20RANDLE
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ID: 8607678

Title: Randle Barnett Barker

Description: Profile Picture War Illustrated Vol X

Connected by: Stephen27718

Source information

ID: 8786023

Title: Headstone

Description: Headstone at Albert Communal Cemetery Extension, Albert

Connected by: David1424

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ID: 9049098

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

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

Connected by: Bryan5462

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/427622

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 9049102

Reference: wwisd

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

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UPP: GBM/WWISD/1014794

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 9049104

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Bryan5462

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/31790/0443/1

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9049106

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Bryan5462

UPP: GBC/1901/0032705100

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9049108

Reference: 1881gbc

Title: 1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1881/0014032619

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9049110

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2005 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/M/1897/2/AZ/000021/079

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9049115

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Bryan5462

UPP: GBM/MCI/5180354

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 9049118

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Bryan5462

UPP: GBM/MCI/5180355

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9049120

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Bryan5462

UPP: GBM/MCI/5180356

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9049121

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Bryan5462

UPP: GBM/MCI/5180357

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9049122

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

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UPP: GBM/MCI/5180358

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 9049125

Title: One man’s war: Randle Barnett Barker 1870-1918

Description: ‘The Regiment doesn’t now exist’. Exhausted, depressed, this is the opening of the letter Lieutenant Colonel Randle Barnett Barker wrote to the William Davison, the Mayor of Kensington, on 30th April 1917. The Mayor of Kensington would have been distraught to hear such harrowing news. He was the one who had raised the 22nd Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, also known as ‘The Kensingtons’, rallied recruitment meetings and mounted a campaign to encourage men to join up. The bearer of the bad news about the Battalion’s near annihilation, Colonel Randle Barnett Barker, was a career soldier who’d served in India but retired from the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in 1906. Born in 1870, he was 46 at the time of writing the letter and he was the Lieutenant Colonel of 22nd.

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