Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 2023468

Reference: WO372/10

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=D3012555
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UPP: GBM/MCI/2025768

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 6175035

Name: France 546. Fampoux, Crump Trench Cemetery. p34.

Title: War Graves of the British empire

Description: HUSKISSON, 2nd Lt, Claude Alexander. 6th Bn. Hampshire Rgt., attd 1st Bn. and Trench Mortar Bty. Killed in action 15th June 1917, age 22. Son of Mrs. H. Huskisson, of 32, St. Andrew's Road, Southsea, and the late Col. J.W. Huskisson. II. A. 14.

Connected by: Anthony26083

Additional: Name, age, rank, regiment and parent's names match.

Source information

ID: 6176152

Title: Photograph of the grave of Claude Huskisson

Description: The photograph was produced by G. West & Son, Southsea. The reference number on the back of the photograph is 56971.

Connected by: Anthony26083

Source information

ID: 6176156

Title: Obituary of Claude Huskisson

Description: This obituary was published in an unknown newspaper. It records personal and family details and includes comments from his commanding officer.

Connected by: Anthony26083

Additional: The press cutting was part of a collection belonging to my great grandmother, named in the item

Source information

ID: 6176159

Name: Essex Newsman, 14 July 1917

Reference: findmypast

Title: Obituary

Description: Obituary of Lt Claude Alexander Huskisson.

Connected by: Anthony26083

Additional: Names, military details and family information tally with Claude Alexander Huskisson. The item was published in this newspaper as his father belonged to the Essex Regiment

Source information

ID: 6176161

Title: Eastbourne College Roll of Service 1914-1918

Description: Second Lieutenant Claude Alexander Huskisson was a Home Boarder from May 1909 to June 1911. He obtained a commission in the Hampshire Regiment in June 1915 and served with the 1st Bn in France. At the end of April 1917, he was attached to the dividional Trench Mortar Battery and was killed by a piece of shell near Roeux, E of Arras, on June 15.

Connected by: Anthony26083

URL: http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/Eastbourne-College-Roll-of-Service-1914-1918/files/assets/basic-html/page31.html
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Additional: Names, place of education and military details tally with other sources.

Source information

ID: 6176688

Title: Claude Huskisson Sandhurst record

Description: Official record of Claude Alexander Huskisson at RMA Sandhurst.

Connected by: Anthony26083

Additional: Ref: RMC WO 151 Vol 8 1910-1917 Sandhurst Collection.

Source information

ID: 6176695

Name: 1894/4, 2b 77

Reference: GRO

Title: Birth record for Claude Alexander Huskisson

Description: Birth record index record

Connected by: Anthony26083

Additional: Birth date tallies with Sandhurst record. Names match

Source information

ID: 7198438

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/302946/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/219520

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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