Lives of the First World War

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ID: 2630696

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=D3644783
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UPP: GBM/MCI/2633475

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7530718

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/1618709/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/857518

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Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 8971115

Title: university of glasgow

Description: university of glasgow remembering students, teachers and alumni's who gave there lives in WW1

Connected by: andy119538

URL: http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/ww1-biography/?id=639
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Additional: this is the university eoin leitch attended, it also mentions his wedding which matches up to a newspaper cutting, confirms he is remembered at menin gate ypres,Biographical information: Records of the Glasgow Provincial Training College, forerunner of Jordanhill College of Education - now the University of Strathclyde). Information provided by Dr Anne Cameron, Archives Assistant, University of Strathclyde Archives.Biographical information: Service information and photograph contributed by Jan Van der Fraenen, The Passchendaele Archives of the Memorial Museum Passchendaele. Photograph from With A Poppy And A Prayer (Officers Died at Passchendaele 31st July - 10th November 1917), by Keith Perry (paperback, 424pp, Naval & Miltary Press Ltd (UK), January 2003, ISBN 1843424991)

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ID: 8971119

Title: captain Eoin Leitch

Description: photo taken from university of glasgow where Eoin Leitch studied before WW1

Connected by: andy119538

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