Lives of the First World War

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ID: 3092296

Reference: WO372/14

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.

UPP: GBM/MCI/3095475

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7735146

Title: Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Law Montgomery

Description: Photo portrait in uniform, towards the end of the war.

Connected by: Linda59526

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ID: 7735174

Title: Major B L Montgomery (right) at Arras, 1916

Description: Major Montgomery with his brother Donald and Major B M Arnold.

Connected by: Linda59526

Additional: Family Collection

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ID: 7735195

Name: Vol. 20, page 0037

Title: Death Register England and Wales

Description: Death Registration Details

Connected by: Linda59526

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ID: 7735210

Name: Vol. 3a., page 262

Title: Marriage Register

Description: Marriage Registration 1927

Connected by: Linda59526

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ID: 7735230

Title: Wikipedia Entry for Bernard Law Montgomery

Description: Biography

Connected by: Linda59526

URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Montgomery,_1st_Viscount_Montgomery_of_Alamein
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ID: 7740225

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Ann44322

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/34997/0349/18

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8557931

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

Connected by: Ann39898

UPP: BMD/D/1976/1/AZ/000920/090

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8571201

Name: NAM Accession Number: NAM. 2000-06-19-1.

Title: Photograph of Major Bernard Law Montgomery DSO, 17 May 1915.

Description: From the collection of the National Army Museum.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

URL: http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=2000-06-19-1
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ID: 8793841

Name: C.N Trueman The History Learning Site, 20 Apr 2015. 16 Aug 2016

Title: Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery

Description: First Paragraph " Bernard Montgomery, the hero of El Alamein and North Africa, where he succeeded Auchinleck, was one of the most inspirational military commanders of World War Two. Montgomery was also the senior British military commander at D-Day and retained that position within the west European sphere of the war until the war ended."

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/military-commanders-of-world-war-two/field-marshal-bernard-montgomery/
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Additional: Bernard Law Montgomery was Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery. It is the same man.

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ID: 8793851

Name: The Reader’s Companion to Military History. Edited by Robert Cowley and Geoffrey Parker.

Title: Bernard Law Montgomery

Description: . Copyright © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Supporting evidence only.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://www.history.com/topics/british-history/bernard-law-montgomery
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Additional: The name Bernard Law Montgomery matches the title of this History Article available on the World Wide Web. Further Reading only.

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ID: 8793875

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: BMD/B/1888/1/AZ/000395/365

Additional: Birth Record for Bernard Law Montgomery born in Lambeth in 1888.Kennington is the London Borough of Lambeth and the names match.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8794198

Title: Baptism Record of Bernard Law Montgomery

Description: Baptism at St. Mark's Church Kennington in the County of Surrey on January 15th 1888.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

Additional: Obtained through Ancestry.co.uk. Kennington Oval is the Home Ground of Surrey C.C.C

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ID: 8794209

Name: The Editors of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica 6/2/2011

Title: Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, of Hindhead, Monty

Description: From first Paragraph: " Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, of Hindhead by name Monty (born Nov. 17, 1887, London, Eng.—died March 24, 1976, near Alton, Hampshire) British field marshal and one of the outstanding Allied commanders in World War II."

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bernard-Law-Montgomery-1st-Viscount-Montgomery
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Additional: Bernard Law Montgomery born November 17th 1887 died March 24th 1976 matches the Life Story of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery.

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ID: 8794252

Name: Open Access | Journals ( 2014).

Title: Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

Description: First Paragraph " Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC ".

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://research.omicsgroup.org/index.php/Bernard_Montgomery,_1st_Viscount_Montgomery_of_Alamein
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Additional: " Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC" connects this article to Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery.

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ID: 8794256

Name: Catalogue number TR 2731 Department Photographs Imperial War Museums

Title: Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery 1945

Description: " Portrait of Field Marshal Montgomery wearing the beret of the Royal Tank Regiment, of which he was Colonel Commandant." " This item is available to be shared and re-used under the terms of the IWM Non Commercial Licence"

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205124037
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Additional: Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in 1945 connects this source to this Life Story in Lives of the First World War.

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ID: 8794257

Name: Imperial War Museums

Title: Search of Imperial War Museums collections

Description: Nine pages or more of photographs, sound recordings and exhibits and other items concerning Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=Bernard+Law+Montgomery&items_per_page=10
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Additional: The search of the Imperial War Museums collections was for Bernard Law Montgomery.

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ID: 9259358

Title: A Who's Who of DDay

Description: Article on IWM website

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/a-whos-who-of-d-day
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Additional: Matches other connected records

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ID: 9259465

Title: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Description: Bernard Law Montgomery [known as Monty] (1887–1976): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31460 Nigel Hamilton, ‘Montgomery, Bernard Law [Monty], first Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887–1976)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31460, accessed 8 May 2014]

Connected by: Gordon760

URL: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-31460?docPos=1
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Additional: B L Montgomery was Bernard Law Montgomery, known in ww2 as Monty and subsequently First Viscount Montgomery of Alemein

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ID: 9259515

Name: Supplement: 36680 Page: 4055

Title: London Gazette 29 Aug 1944

Description: The King has been graciously pleased to approve of the promotion to the rank of Field Marshal (supernumerary) of General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, K.C.B., D.S.O. (8742), late The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, with effect from the 1st Sept. 1944.

Connected by: Gordon760

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36680/supplement/4055
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Additional: The names and connection to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment are a good match.

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ID: 9524478

Name: 1959

Reference: purchased

Title: Daily Mail 1959 Year Book

Description: Variety of facts referring to the 1950's

Connected by: Keith133517

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