Lives of the First World War

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ID: 3374783

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.

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UPP: GBM/MCI/3378178

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9316020

Title: G C Palmer birth certificate

Description: Scan of original birth certificate

Connected by: Rosalind138068

Additional: This is the birth certificate of my grandfather, born in Stowage, Deptford. According to the birth certificate his father was a 'mariner'.

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ID: 9316037

Title: marriage of Geoffrey's parents

Description: Certificate of marriage in St Nicholas Church, Deptford

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ID: 9316043

Title: Christmas Dinner in Bag Bag 1918

Description: Geoffrey was in the Imperial Camel Corps and this is a photo of the menu of Christmas Dinner in the officers' mess.

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ID: 9316045

Title: Joining the Territorials

Description: Enrolment in the Army Service Corps (Territorial Force)

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ID: 9316054

Title: Death registration

Description: Registration of death in Battle in June 1970

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Additional: When he died Geoffrey was living in Battle with his eldest daughter, Violet, my aunt.

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ID: 9316057

Title: Registration of death

Description: Death in the town of Battle, East Sussex

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URL: https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=7579&h=40019783&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=DVd2&_phstart=successSource
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Additional: My grandfather was living with his daughter Violet in Battle before he died. I visited him there a few months before he died.

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ID: 9316071

Name: London Gazette Supplement 19 December 1917 p 13311

Title: Temporary second lieutenant

Description: Promotion to temporary second lieutenant

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URL: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/results?eventyear=1917&eventyear_offset=0&book=pages%2013029%20to%20960&datasetname=the%20london%20gazette%2c%20supplements%20august%201914%20-%20january%201920&firstname=geoffrey%20charles&firstname_variants=true&lastname=palmer
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Additional: His name matches and he also writes about his promotion in his memoirs (typed ms).

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ID: 9316119

Title: Geoffrey with fellow officer in Damascus

Description: Geoffrey is the officer on the left.

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ID: 9316122

Title: Punitive column moving off to Fayum 1919

Description: The photo in my grandfather's album indicates the Imperial Camel Corps was involved in suppressing the nationalist uprising in the Egyptian Delta in 1919.

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ID: 9316167

Title: Geoffrey Palmer

Description: In uniform

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