Lives of the First World War

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ID: 2228982

Reference: WO372/11

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=D3218219
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UPP: GBM/MCI/2231432

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6978175

Title: E H Kennington, 'The Kensingtons at Laventie'

Description: Eric Kennington served in the 13th Battalion, The London Regiment, popularly known as ‘The Kensingtons’, from 1914 until June 1915, experiencing front-line duties during the bitterly cold first winter of the war. The painting depicts men in his unit, Platoon no. 7, C Company, and includes a self-portrait.

Connected by: Imperial1

Additional: IWM Collections ART 15661

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ID: 6978180

Title: Article on E H Kennington

Description: BBC Your Paintings website

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URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/eric-henri-kennington
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Additional: Matches Medal Index Card and information from IWM Collections

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ID: 6978181

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/D/1960/2/AZ/000582/060

Additional: Matches BBC article

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 6978186

Reference: gbm_wo363-4

Title: British Army Service Records 1914-1920 Transcription

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UPP: GBM/WO363-4/7276543/164/1911

Additional: Matches Medal Index Card and information from BBC and IWM - date of birth incorrect in this record

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6978190

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Imperial1

UPP: GBC/1901/0001627985

Additional: Matches all other connected records

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 6978195

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Imperial1

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/00373/0439/3

Additional: Matches 1901 Census

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6978198

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/B/1888/2/AZ/000328/355

Additional: Matches Census and Death record

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8522282

Title: Eric Henri Kennington

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ID: 8522284

Title: Memorial to the Missing, the Soissons Memorial

Description: July 1929; three nine foot high stone figures of British soldiers for the Imperial War Graves Commission Memorial to the Missing, the Soissons Memorial

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ID: 8522287

Title: Commissioned for series "seeing it through" 1944

Description: One of 6 images in a series of "home front workers" in London in 1944 called "seeing it through"

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ID: 9592861

Name: ISBN 978-1-910777-12-1

Title: 'A Touch of Paradise in Hell'

Description: The story of Talbot House (Toc H) from when it was established in Poperinge through to the end of the war. Through the use of letters including those of Chaplain Philip ‘Tubby’ Clayton, archives and first-hand accounts the book’s author Jan Louagie (Honorary Secretary to the Talbot House Association) gives the reader a clear insight into the daily life of this best known ‘Every-Man’s Club’ and reveals how it offered a sanctuary, a ‘home from home’ for over half a million men on their way to the front.

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