Lives of the First World War

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ID: 3377489

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=D4500786
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UPP: GBM/MCI/3380887

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6170820

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Lisa13592

UPP: GBM/MCI/3380845

Additional: all names and honours match

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6170824

Title: BBC - The Great War Interviews

Description: 18-year-old shop assistant John enlisted into the army in 1911, and became a Gunner with the Royal Field Artillery. In August 1914 he was appointed Acting Bombardier and posted to France, where the realities of mud, fatigue and death began to break his spirit. His account is tinged with the hopelessness and cowardice felt by many men who did not feel mentally or physically capable of the endless advances and retreats over a few feet of pock-marked ground. During a time when John contemplated self-inflicting wounds to remove himself from the situation, he was injured by a nearby shell burst. Having sustained severe wounds to his back and shoulders, he returned to England

Connected by: Lisa13592

URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01td2np
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Additional: All facts refer to

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ID: 6170828

Reference: gbm_wo363-4

Title: British Army Service Records 1914-1920 Transcription

Connected by: Lisa13592

UPP: GBM/WO363-4/7367635/4/79

Additional: All details match including army number

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6170837

Reference: gbm_silver_war_bad1914_18

Title: Silver War Badge Roll Transcription

Connected by: Lisa13592

UPP: GBM/SILVERWAR/BADGES/50369

Additional: details match

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6996366

Name: Episode 3, Outnumbered and Outgunned

Title: BBC Radio 4, Voices of the First World War

Description: Website of BBC Radio 4 iPlayer Radio

Connected by: Imperial1

URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04md54p
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Additional: Matches Medal Index Card

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ID: 6996367

Name: Catalogue number 4198

Title: Interview in IWM Sound Archive

Description: Interview between John Willis Palmer and BBC, 1963

Connected by: Imperial1

URL: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80018014
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Additional: Matches BBC Radio 4 programme

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ID: 9547668

Reference: gbm_dcm_wwi

Title: WWI Distinguished Conduct Medal Citations Transcription

Connected by: Ian3310

UPP: GBM/DCM/16871

Credit: © Naval and Military Press

Source information

ID: 9547686

Title: On the BBC 1964

Description: In Great War series

Connected by: Ian3310

Source information

ID: 9547687

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Ian3310

UPP: BMD/B/1894/2/AZ/000426/103

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9547689

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

Connected by: Ian3310

UPP: BMD/D/1972/2/AZ/000897/107

Credit: © General Register Office

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