Lives of the First World War

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ID: 3334610

Reference: WO372/15

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=D4457882
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UPP: GBM/MCI/3337983

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9018805

Title: Private Albert Orange

Description: In uniform, shortly after enlisting aged 18.

Connected by: Steven44268

Additional: Albert (Bert) is my grandfather (my father's father). The picture appears in a book published by his employers in Manchester, William Graham & Co., called "Record of Partners, Staff and Operatives Who Participated in the Great War 1914-1919."

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ID: 9018808

Title: Private Albert (Bert) Orange

Description: In uniform, taken shortly after he enlisted aged 18.

Connected by: Steven44268

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ID: 9648060

Name: Scotland's People 1981 607/43 Glasgow, Martha St

Title: Scotland's People website

Description: Official Record of death.

Connected by: Steven44268

URL: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results?search_type=people&dl_cat=statutory&dl_rec=statutory-deaths&surname=orange&surname_so=exact&forename=albert&forename_so=starts&other_surname_so=exact&mmsurname_so=exact&sex=M&from_year=1980&to_year=1983&birth_year=1896&birth_year_range=2&county=GLASGOW%20CITY&record_type=stat_deaths
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ID: 9650010

Title: Bert Orange Birth Certificate

Connected by: Steven44268

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ID: 9650064

Title: Carson Wing, UVF Hospital, Belfast

Description: Carson Wing, UVF Hospital, Belfast (21 June 1918, Belfast Telegraph). Bert remained at the UVF Hospital from 30 March 1917 to 3 July 1917.

Connected by: Steven44268

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ID: 9650141

Name: NationalArchives MH106/86

Reference: National Archives.

Title: Records of No. 43 Casualty Clearing Station 13/10/1916.

Description: First World War Representative Medical Records of Servicemen from 51st Field Ambulance. Record is also at https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/records/6898191/private-a-orange-gordon-highlanders/ .

Connected by: Steven44268

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ID: 9650473

Name: See pages 297 and 308 and 309 of 536.

Title: Employers' Roll of Honour

Description: William Graham & Co Record of Partners, Staff and Operatives Who Participated in the Great War 1914-1919.

Connected by: Steven44268

URL: http://www.scotlandswar.co.uk/pdf_Graham,_William_&_Co.pdf
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