Lives of the First World War

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ID: 2329023

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=D3318337
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UPP: GBM/MCI/2331550

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6993584

Title: Portrait photograph of William Lawton

Description: Private William Lawton 1/5 Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) Pte Lawton of B Company, 7 Platoon was reported wounded and missing, aged 20 on 3 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.

Connected by: Charlotte33

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ID: 7412447

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/799736/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/629766

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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ID: 9530982

Title: Brockholes War Memorial.

Description: At the junction of Brockholes Lane and Oakes Lane in the village of Brockholes.

Connected by: Yasmin137604

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ID: 9530987

Title: Commemorative plaque St Georges Church Brockholes

Description: Plaque bearing the names of soldiers associated with the Church who died in the First World War.

Connected by: Yasmin137604

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ID: 9530995

Name: D34/1/2/2

Title: West Yorkshire, England, Births and Baptisms 1813 - 1910

Description: Baptisms solemnised in the Parish of Upperthong in the County of York in the year 1896.

Connected by: Yasmin137604

URL: http://www.ancestry.co.uk
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ID: 9531028

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Yasmin137604

UPP: GBC/1901/0026417938

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9531096

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Yasmin137604

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/26211/0229/3

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9531171

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Yasmin137604

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0301964

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 9531501

Name: Holmfirth Express 20th January 2017

Reference: Huddersfield Local History Library

Title: "Our Cabinet of Heroes" article about William Lawton

Description: Description of the life and circumstances of the death of William Lawton.

Connected by: Yasmin137604

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