Lives of the First World War

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ID: 2320312

Reference: WO372/12

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=D3309620
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UPP: GBM/MCI/2322833

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 5500510

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty Details

Description: Casualty Details entry in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database.

Connected by: Kevin9949

URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/170928/LAURENCE,%20CARLETON%20ERIC
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Additional: The CWGC's entry contains the same military service number (C1218) as the Medal Index Card for C. E. Lawrence/Laurence. It also gives his parents' names and residence.

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ID: 5500917

Title: King's Collections : War Memorials : Laurence, Carleton Eric

Description: Entry for Carleton Eric Laurence in the memorial list of King's College London.

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URL: http://www.kingscollections.org/warmemorials/kings-college/memorials/laurence-carleton-eric
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Additional: Contains the same service number (C1218) for Carleton Eric Laurence as the Medal Index Card and the CWGC website.

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ID: 5501251

Title: Company Sergeant Major C. E. Laurence

Description: A head-and-shoulders portrait of Carleton Eric Laurence taken in uniform at the studio of Alexander Bassano in London circa 1915.

Connected by: Kevin9949

Additional: Carleton Eric Laurence was my great uncle. I have inherited a copy of this photograph.

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ID: 5501293

Title: Portrait of CSM Carleton Eric Laurence by Bassano

Description: Standing in uniform at the London studio of Victorian society portrait photographer Alexander Bassano.

Connected by: Kevin9949

Additional: Carleton Eric Laurence was my great uncle. The name Bassano appears on the card to which the photograph is mounted.

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ID: 6166421

Title: Company Sergeant Major C. E. Laurence

Description: A signed photograph of Company Sergeant Major Carleton Eric Laurence taken on the steps of the battalion's barracks in approximately 1915.

Connected by: Kevin9949

Additional: This photograph is signed "Yours Sincerely, C. Eric Laurence". A copy was given to me, his great nephew, from the granddaughter of Private Frederick Street, who also served in the 16th battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the First World War.

Source information

ID: 6623646

Reference: bmd_overseas_deaths_arr1

Title: GRO WAR DEATHS ARMY OTHER RANKS (1914 to1921) Transcription

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UPP: BMD/OVS/ARR1/002141/029

Additional: The names and his military number match exactly.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 6623703

Reference: wwisd

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

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UPP: GBM/WWISD/0513496

Additional: Army service number, given names, place of birth and date of death are all exactly correct.

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

Source information

ID: 6656779

Title: CSM Carleton Eric Laurence

Description: Taken at the Alexander Bassano photographic studio in approximately 1915.

Connected by: Kevin9949

Source information

ID: 7609059

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

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

Connected by: Kevin9949

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/78180

Additional: All details match those known for Carleton Eric Laurence.

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Source information

ID: 8805646

Title: Together We Aspire, Together We Achieve

Description: Trinidad flag and motto

Connected by: Deborah102878

Source information

ID: 9615641

Title: Father at Eric's grave—France.

Description: Dr. Stephen Moister Laurence bows his head at the grave of his eldest son, Carleton Eric Laurence, in Cambrin, France. Date unknown.

Connected by: Kevin9949

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