Lives of the First World War

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ID: 3025708

Reference: WO372/13

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=D4040124
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UPP: GBM/MCI/3028816

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7111431

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/244299/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/165821

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

Source information

ID: 9260008

Name: n/a

Title: UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919

Description: Entry in Soldiers Died

Connected by: Barry1338

URL: https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=Hrd1951&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&db=UKsoldiersGreatWar&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=john%20albert&gsfn_x=0&gsln=middleton&gsln_x=0&msddy=1917&MSAV=1&uidh=m76&pcat=39&fh=0&h=386667&recoff=7%208%209&ml_rpos=1
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Additional: Details match medal card and CWGC data

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ID: 9260011

Name: WO 95/455/1

Reference: Downloaded from The National Archives

Title: Downloaded copy of War Diary for 5 Army Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery for Nov 1917

Description: War diary for the brigade within which John Albert Middleton's 'O' battery served (there is no surviving war diary for the battery itself).

Connected by: Barry1338

Additional: The war diary contains detail of the action in which J A Middleton received his fatal wounds

Source information

ID: 9260017

Name: Dec 1893 Towcester 3b 9

Title: GRO Births Index

Description: GRO Births Index entry

Connected by: Barry1338

URL: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/8912/ONS_B18934AZ-0379?pid=22365679&treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Hrd1952&_phstart=successSource
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Additional: Details match military sources, but also see baptismal entry and Census returns for full confirmation

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ID: 9260020

Name: Northamptonshire Record Office; 2P/3

Title: Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1912

Description: Baptismal entry in parish register in Abthorpe, Northants, for 10 June 1894

Connected by: Barry1338

URL: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/9200/42672_340992__0001-00036?pid=467065&treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Hrd1952&_phstart=successSource
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Additional: Parents' names match those given in CWGC entries, and other details agree. No birth date is cited in this record.

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ID: 9260029

Name: RG13/1410 folio 9 page 9

Title: 1901 Census

Description: 1901 Census entry

Connected by: Barry1338

URL: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBC/1901/1407-1410/0559&parentid=GBC/1901/0009438521
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ID: 9260030

Name: RG14; Piece: 590

Title: 1911 Census

Description: 1911 Census entry

Connected by: Barry1338

URL: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/2352/rg14_00590_0008_34?pid=1624548&treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Hrd1954&_phstart=successSource
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