Lives of the First World War

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ID: 19093

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=D1004530
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UPP: GBM/MCI/0019106

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8554325

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

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UPP: GBM/MCI/5180152

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9043645

Reference: gbm_royal_art_officers_deaths

Title: British Army, Royal Artillery officer deaths 1850-2011 Transcription

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UPP: GBM/ROYALART/OFFDEATH/04971

Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast

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ID: 9043647

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/D/1940/3/AZ/000010/001

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9043649

Name: Major General Sir Richard Bannatyne-Allason

Title: Remembering WW1 soldiers with a connection to Cumnock in Ayrshire

Description: Richard Allason Bannatine was born on 22nd September 1855 at Glaisnock House in Cumnock to Dr Richard Bannatine an army surgeon and Charlotte Owen an Australian, who were married n Sydney on 13 Nov 1851. She was the daughter of Assistant Commissary General Stephen Owen. Their daughter Charlotte was born in Sydney on Dec 1852. Richard senior had been in Sydney since at least 1844 when he was noted as assistant staff surgeon to the 58th regiment. By 1861 census the family was living at Glaisnnock House in Cumnock. Richard by then a Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Artillery is visiting William Allason Cunninghame at Logan House in the 1881 census. He doesn't appear to have married.

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URL: https://cumnocksoldiers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/major-general-sir-richard-bannatyne.html
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ID: 9043653

Title: Sir Richard Bannatine-Allason

Description: Sir Richard Bannatine-Allason by Walter Stoneman bromide print, 1924 Commissioned, 1924 Photographs Collection NPG x162437

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ID: 9043658

Name: Richard Bannatine-Allason

Title: Profiles of Western Front generals from the "Lions led by donkeys" project

Description: Richard Bannatine-Allason (1855-1940) Major-General CB, CMG, GOC Infantry Division Wellington College RMA Woolwich RHA & RFA Son of RC Bannatine of Glaisnock, Ayrshire. Commissioned RA 28 January 1875. Active service Afghan War, Sudan and South Africa. 1905 British Attaché to Japanese army, fighting Russians in Manchuria. Had completed four-year tour as GOC Nowshera Brigade in India in April 1914, unemployed when war broke out. 27 August 1914 succeeded Major-General C J Mackenzie as GOC 51st (Highland) Division TF. Command not entirely happy. Division took casualties before sent abroad, Highlands soldiers suffered from measles in particular. Division’s first attack failed completely. Criticised both by superiors and his staff. Bannatine-Allason was replaced on 24 September 1915. Later commanded 61st and 64th Divisions TF at home. Retired from army 10 September 1918. Colonel Commandant of the Royal Horse Artillery from 1920 to 1940 and knighted in 1926.

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URL: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/warstudies/research/projects/lionsdonkeys/b.aspx
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