Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 1899111

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=D2888117
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UPP: GBM/MCI/1901330

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 5508651

Title: Personal Knowledge of Randal Kennerley

Description: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

Connected by: Randal19464

Additional: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

Source information

ID: 6632332

Title: Serjeant Fred Hitchman MM

Description: In uniform. Date unknown.

Connected by: Lizzy37562

Source information

ID: 6632450

Title: Personal Knowledge of Lizzy Jack

Description: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

Connected by: Lizzy37562

Additional: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

Source information

ID: 6632507

Title: Newspaper cutting from local newspaper

Description: Newspaper cutting that was kept by my great-aunt (Barbara Hitchman). She was the niece of Fred Hitchman

Connected by: Lizzy37562

Additional: This account of the death of Fred Hitchman was printed in a local newspaper. It gives details of the letter that was sent to his parents after his death from Gilbert Burdett Howcroft. Mr Howcroft went on to write a book about his experiences during the war that describes the evening when Fred Hitchman was killed.

Source information

ID: 7015316

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/89775/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/14489

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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