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ID: 3362100

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=D4485387
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UPP: GBM/MCI/3365488

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7150489

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/40800/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/113272

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Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 7742431

Title: 2nd Lieutenant William Francis Paddock

Description: In uniform of 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers

Connected by: Robin60812

Additional: William was an ex-pupil of Dunstable Grammar School, Bedfordshire

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ID: 7742435

Title: William Francis Paddock

Description: 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers

Connected by: Robin60812

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ID: 8450436

Name: Class: WO 329; Piece Number: 799; B. Roll; Sheet 814.

Title: WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls - Victory & British War Medals

Description: Medal and Award Rolls - Royal Fusiliers Subsequently Commissioned - Roll of Individuals entitled to the Victory & British War Medals.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

URL: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=iwoservicemedalawardrolls&rank=1&new=1&MSAV=0&gss=angs-d&gsfn=william+francis&gsln=paddock&sbo=0&uidh=jmn&gsfn_x=XO&gsln_x=XO&pcat=39&fh=0&h=5962222&recoff=5+6+7&ml_rpos=1
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Additional: The person's name, date of death, and military details match.

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ID: 8450439

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Yvonne27542

UPP: GBM/WWISD/1010088

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

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 8450452

Name: NAM Accession Number: 1991-02-333; Record Numbers: 27601-28600; Reference: 14

Title: Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects

Description: Records detailing the money owed to soldiers of the British Army who died in service from 1901 to 1929. Record No.: 27707. Registry No.: 133980/2. Soldier’s Name: Paddock, W F. Regiment, Rank, No.: 2 Lieut. 4 Rl. Fusrs. Date & Place of Death: 9-4-17, of wounds. /Credits – Account, Date, Amount: Transfer 2423, 16/7/17, £38 12s 6d; Charges – Amount, Account, Date: £44 8s 11d, C P E C. 10/17; Date of Authority: 20/10/17; To whom Authorised: Admr William Peters Paddock Esq; Amount Authorised: £44 8s 11d./ /Credits – Account, Date, Amount: C P Base, 4/17, £4 13s 2d; Charges – Amount, Account, Date: £7 10s, C P E C, 12/19; Date of Authority: 27/11/19; To whom Authorised: Admr as above.; Amount Authorised: £7 10s./ /Credits – Account, Date, Amount: C P Base, 5/17, £1 3s 3d; Charges – Amount, Account, Date: -, - -; Date of Authority: -; To whom Authorised: -; Amount Authorised: -./

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URL: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=ukarmyregisterseffects&rank=1&new=1&MSAV=0&gss=angs-d&gsfn=william+francis&gsln=paddock&sbo=0&uidh=jmn&gsfn_x=NP_NN_NIC&gsln_x=XO&pcat=39&fh=4&h=187396&recoff=3+4+5&ml_rpos=5
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Additional: The person's name, date of death, and military details match.

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ID: 8450457

Name: National Probate Calendars; 1917; Page 436.

Title: Probate

Description: PADDOCK William Francis of Eaton Bray Schoolhouse Dunstable Bedfordshire second-lieutenant 4th battalion Royal Fusiliers died 9 April 1917 at No. 19 Casualty Clearing Station Arras France Administration Northampton 22 September to William Peters Paddock schoolmaster. Effects £173 13s 9d.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

URL: https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Paddock&yearOfDeath=1917#calendar
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Additional: The person's name, date of death, and father's details match.

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ID: 8450460

Name: Publication date: 15 August 1916; Issue: 29708; Page: 8024.

Title: The London Gazette - 15th August 1916

Description: R. Fus. The undermentioned cadets to be temp. 2nd Lts. (on prob.) : — 5 Aug. 1916. Morris Richard Fuller. Cyril Arthur Brasher. Noel Collisson. Anthony Titley. William Francis Paddock.

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29708/page/8024
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Additional: The person's name and military details match.

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ID: 8450467

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Yvonne27542

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/08981/0271/3

Additional: The person's name, address, age, and father's details match.

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8450468

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Yvonne27542

UPP: GBC/1901/0010815087

Additional: The person's name, age, birthplace, and parents details match the 1911 Census.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8450471

Name: Page 5

Title: Luton News and Bedfordshire Chronicle - 3rd May 1917

Description: Article about William's death, with biographical details. {Transcribed as a story.}

Connected by: Yvonne27542

URL: http://search.findmypast.co.uk/bna/viewarticle?id=bl%2f0000658%2f19170503%2f085
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Additional: The person's name, date of death, home, and military details match.

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ID: 8450499

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Yvonne27542

UPP: BMD/B/1894/4/AZ/000428/268

Additional: The person's name, age, and birthplace registration district match.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8450501

Title: Eaton Bray web site

Description: Biography of William, from "The British Roll of Honour" plus additional information and photograph.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

URL: http://www.eatonbray.com/history/serving-soldiers/paddock/
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Additional: The person's name, military details, and family details match.

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ID: 8454707

Title: Dunstable School Old Boys Association

Description: Biography of William.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

URL: http://www.dsoba.co.uk/book/WW1%20Sample%20Page.pdf
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Additional: The person's details, including his school, all match.

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ID: 8597077

Title: 2nd Lieutenant W F Paddock

Description: Details of his life and death

Connected by: Robin60812

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ID: 9052818

Name: October 1917; Page 265; Our Roll of Honour.

Reference: Barclays Group Archives

Title: Journal of the Institute of Bankers - Roll of Honour

Description: Brief notices of war deaths of members of the Institute of Bankers. See Stories section for full transcription.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

Additional: Other evidence confirms he worked for the bank.

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ID: 9067344

Name: Register entitled “Barclay & Company Limited – Staff on Active Service”; Leighton Buzzard LHO, p. 1.

Reference: Barclays Group Archives

Title: Barclays Bank Active Service Register

Description: A register of Barclays staff on active service, arranged by local head office district. For each man it gives his branch/section at Barclays, whether married or single, the unit in which he was serving, his rank, salary, and a note if killed in action. Earlier entries contain full detail, whereas later entries often include just name. The data on the men’s salaries shows their normal bank salary, their Army pay, and how the bank made up the difference (and of course guaranteed their jobs for them). Further information about the person may be available in Barclays Group Archives. See https://www.archive.barclays.com/

Connected by: Yvonne27542

Additional: Match based on a combination of name, military details (if given), and other evidence confirming that he was a bank employee.

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ID: 9606675

Title: Barclays Bank - We Will Remember Them

Description: Image from Barclays Bank Book of Remembrance - World War One. Completed in April 1959, with parchment pages, the book was decorated and gilded by Dorothy Hutton.

Connected by: James201

Additional: Image copyright Barclays Group Archives www.archive.barclays.com. Book reference 2111/1. 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: 9607922

Title: Detail Page from Barclays Bank Book of Remembrance

Description: After WW2 it was decided that the permanent official Barclays Bank memorial should be an illuminated inscribed book of remembrance, one for each war. Originally put on display in a purpose-built wall case at 54 Lombard Street, the books were then put on display in the new head office building in the 1990s, and when the head office moved in 2005 to 1 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, the books were put on display in cases there. The WW1 book lists members of staff who lost their lives serving in the armed forces, separated into Barclays Bank, London and South Western Bank, and London and Provincial Bank. The book has parchment pages, with leather binding, engrossed, decorated and gilded by Dorothy Hutton, and bound by Sydney M Cockerell, and includes illustrations of head offices and coats of arms of the three banks. The image shows the page of the WW1 book which features this person’s name as an employee of Barclays Bank Limited.

Connected by: James201

Additional: Image copyright Barclays Group Archives www.archive.barclays.com. Book reference 2111/1. 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: 9611782

Name: File 3/1899 - papers about the Barclays war memorial fund

Reference: Barclays Group Archives

Title: Barclays Bank published list of Casualties - 1919

Description: Annotated roll published by Barclays in January 1919. The printed list is headed "Barclays Bank Limited. List of Local Directors and Members of the Staff killed in action, or who have died whilst serving with His Majesty's Forces. 1914-1918.". The hand-written annotations date between 1919 & 1924, and it looks as though they were writing to branches, local head offices and families to obtain details about the men who died. The printed information consists of name, rank, regiment, and bank branch. Written by each name is date of death, and a code indicating whether the person had originally been employed by one of the companies that Barclays had acquired during the war years – i.e., United Counties Bank, London & Provincial Bank Ltd, and London & South Western Bank. Some extra names have also been written on the list. Further information about the person may also be available in Barclays Group Archives. See https://www.archive.barclays.com/

Connected by: Yvonne27542

Additional: Match confirmed based on a combination of the person’s name, rank, regiment, date of death, and other evidence confirming that he was employed by the Bank.

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ID: 9621514

Title: Barclays Bank printed Roll of Honour

Description: Image of the original design for a Barclays Bank colour printed WW1 roll of honour. Reproduced in monochrome in “History of Barclays Bank Limited”, P W Matthews & A W Tuke, 1926, page 396.

Connected by: James201

Additional: Image copyright Barclays Group Archives www.archive.barclays.com, document reference 3/5050. 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: 9622167

Title: Original Barclays Bank Memorial

Description: Image of the original Barclays Bank WW1 memorial panel formerly in the Great Hall at 54 Lombard Street. Published in Spread Eagle (the staff magazine of Barclays Bank), volume 26 (1951), page 461

Connected by: James201

Additional: Image copyright Barclays Group Archives www.archive.barclays.com. 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: 9627775

Name: IWM Memorials

Title: Eaton Bray War Memorial

Description: Eaton Bray War Memorial Unveiled: 31st July 1921 WM Reference: 1638 St Mary the Virgin Church, Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire Description: Plinth with tapering column bearing the cross. Inscription: IN / GRATEFUL MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF / THIS PARISH / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / FOR THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR. / 1914-1918 / 1939-1945 / "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE" / Names: 22, including: Paddock, Frank

Connected by: Rory139697

URL: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/1638
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ID: 9627780

Name: IWM Memorials

Title: Old Boys of Dunstable Grammar School - WW1 Memorial

Description: Ashton (Church of England Voluntary Aided) Middle School (formerly Dunstable Grammar School), High Street North, Dunstable, Bedfordshire WM Reference: 7748 Description: A school library containing two associated boards. On the west wall of the library in the centre is a stone, and brick fireplace, with an oak carved surround, and a five paneled oak board above the fireplace. Three of the panels of the board are engraved with the names of the dead in black. The oak surround has fifteen individually carved bosses. Above the door, on the inside of the library, there is the other board. Inscription The board above the door: THIS LIBRARY WAS GIVEN BY THE / OLD BOYS TO THE SCHOOL IN MEMORY OF / THEIR FELLOWS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN / THE GREAT WAR. The board above the fireplace: 1914 - 1918 / Names: 63, including: Paddock, W F

Connected by: Rory139697

URL: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/7748
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ID: 9631587

Title: Medal Roll Index Card

Description: A record of William's medals, also a request from his father to receive his late son's medals.

Connected by: robert5139

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ID: 9647397

Title: Dunstable School

Connected by: Stella72041

Additional: Dunstable School