Lives of the First World War

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ID: 2430681

Reference: WO372/6

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=D3444631
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UPP: GBM/MCI/2433323

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7498450

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/1631012/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/869177

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: 7726067

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Yvonne27542

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0623388

Additional: The person's name, date of death, and military details match.

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 8493730

Title: TYNE COT MEMORIAL

Connected by: James5896

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ID: 8523771

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Fiona12861

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/25395/0485/4

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8523774

Reference: gbm_wo363-4

Title: British Army Service Records 1914-1920 Transcription

Connected by: Fiona12861

UPP: GBM/WO363-4/7286424/10/212

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8819386

Title: Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial

Description: Tyne Cot Cemetery, which bears witness to the Third Battle of Ypres, commonly known as the Battle of Passchendaele, is the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in the world in terms of burials. There are 11,961 Commonwealth servicemen buried there, of whom more than 8,300 remain unidentified. The site also contains the Tyne Cot Memorial Wall to the Missing, which commemorates nearly 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom and New Zealand who died on the Ypres Salient after 16th August 1917 and whose graves are not known.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

Additional: Photograph obtained from CWGC Flikr stream at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cwgc/7682742996/in/album-72157630834399112/ under Creative Commons license for non-commercial use.

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ID: 9602399

Title: Ashton Gardens War Memorial.

Description: Dedicated to those that made the ultimate sacrifice during the First World War.

Connected by: Desmond1478

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ID: 9602403

Title: Ashton Gardens War Memorial.

Description: Memorial plaque.

Connected by: Desmond1478

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ID: 9602409

Title: Private Harry Edwards.

Description: LEST WE FORGET.

Connected by: Desmond1478

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ID: 9633416

Title: Service Roll of Martins Bank - Cover

Description: A printed roll of honour entitled “Service Roll of Martins Bank”, listing “Those who did not return” and “Ex-Service Men 1914-1919”, was compiled in 1931 for the centenary of the Bank of Liverpool, and comprises of a list of staff of all the constituent banks in the Martins group (Bank of Liverpool, Martins Bank, Bank of Liverpool and Martins Limited, Lancashire & Yorkshire Bank, Cocks Biddulph, Palatine Bank, Halifax Commercial Bank, Cattle Trade Bank, Equitable Bank). It used to be on permanent display at the former Martins head office at Water Street in Liverpool, but was transferred to Barclays Group Archives in 2007 when Barclays sold the building. The image shows the cover of the book.

Connected by: James201

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ID: 9634517

Title: Service Roll of Martins Bank - Title Page

Description: A printed roll of honour entitled “Service Roll of Martins Bank”, listing “Those who did not return” and “Ex-Service Men 1914-1919”, was compiled in 1931 for the centenary of the Bank of Liverpool, and comprises of a list of staff of all the constituent banks in the Martins group (Bank of Liverpool, Martins Bank, Bank of Liverpool and Martins Limited, Lancashire & Yorkshire Bank, Cocks Biddulph, Palatine Bank, Halifax Commercial Bank, Cattle Trade Bank, Equitable Bank). It used to be on permanent display at the former Martins head office at Water Street in Liverpool, but was transferred to Barclays Group Archives in 2007 when Barclays sold the building. The image shows the title page of the book.

Connected by: James201

Additional: Image copyright Barclays Group Archives www.archive.barclays.com. Book reference 1585/1. This image has kindly been made available by Barclays Group Archives for publication on Lives of the First World War for personal use only, and is subject to Barclays Group Archives terms of use. For permission to publish this image in any form of publication please contact Barclays Group Archives via www.archive.barclays.com/contact.

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ID: 9639623

Title: Detail page from Service Roll of Martins Bank

Description: A printed roll of honour entitled “Service Roll of Martins Bank”, listing “Those who did not return” and “Ex-Service Men 1914-1919”, was compiled in 1931 for the centenary of the Bank of Liverpool, and comprises of a list of staff of all the constituent banks in the Martins group (Bank of Liverpool, Martins Bank, Bank of Liverpool and Martins Limited, Lancashire & Yorkshire Bank, Cocks Biddulph, Palatine Bank, Halifax Commercial Bank, Cattle Trade Bank, Equitable Bank). The information printed for each person consists of initials & surname, plus regiment. The image shows the page of the book which features this person’s name in the list of “Those who did not return”.

Connected by: James201

Additional: Image copyright Barclays Group Archives www.archive.barclays.com. Book reference 1585/1. This image has kindly been made available by Barclays Group Archives for publication on Lives of the First World War for personal use only, and is subject to Barclays Group Archives terms of use. For permission to publish this image in any form of publication please contact Barclays Group Archives via www.archive.barclays.com/contact.

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ID: 9653136

Title: Original Lancashire & Yorkshire Bank WW1 Memorial

Description: A WW1 memorial tablet to the fallen staff from the Lancashire & Yorkshire Bank was unveiled by the Chairman in the Banking Chamber at Head Office at 43 Spring Gardens, Manchester, in 1921, and framed photographs of the tablet were sent to relatives of the men. The panel was headed, “To the memory of our colleagues who made the supreme sacrifice in defence of their country during the Great War 1914-1919”, and the wording at the bottom was, “The Lancashire & Yorkshire Bank Limited”.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

Additional: Image from The Story of Lancashire & Yorkshire Bank Limited 1872-1922, photograph of memorial facing p.80. Freely available on the internet at https://ia701209.us.archive.org/25/items/TheStoryOfTheLancashireYorkshireBankLimited/TheStoryOfTheLancashireYorkshireBankLimited1872-1.pdf