Lives of the First World War

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ID: 340802

Reference: WO372/2

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/0341065

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 5485612

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/M/1912/3/AZ/000093/117

Additional: The names of both partners and the date match known facts

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 5485622

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/00868/0167/2

Additional: The names match. The age, address and other people match those known by family and other official records

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 5485626

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/D/1964/3/AZ/000061/069

Additional: The names match. The year of birth matches that known by family and other official records

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 5485630

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1901/0005565350

Additional: The names match. Other details match those known by family and other official records.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 5485632

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/B/1888/1/AZ/000050/319

Additional: The names match. The year and location match other official records and those known by family.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 5485647

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1891/0001459846

Additional: The names match. Other details match those in other official records and known by family.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 5486181

Title: Charles Percy Billing

Description: Charles Percy Billing in uniform. He served in Mesopotamia.

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ID: 6173176

Title: Basra City Oriental Cinema Programme

Description: This is the programme for 19th to 21st Feb 1919 for the cinema in Basra.

Connected by: Gwen1292

Additional: My Grandfather served in Basra and this document was in a collection of his war time keepsakes now kept by his family

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ID: 6173184

Title: Permission to go to the cinema

Description: This is the permission slip allowing my grandfather to be absent from his quarters to go to the cinema in Basra

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Additional: This document comes from a collection of my grandfather's wartime documents now held by his family.

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ID: 6173191

Title: Christmas card from Mesopotamia

Description: Christmas card sent from Mesopotamia by my grandfather

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Additional: Christmas card sent by my grandfather to his wife in 1917. It comes from a collection of his wartime documents now held by his family.

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ID: 6173198

Title: Neptune's Certificate

Description: Certificate showing crossing the line 15th September 1917

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Additional: This certificate shows my grandfather having 'crossed the line' on his way out to Mesopotamia. It comes from a collection of his documents now held by his family.

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ID: 6173207

Title: Battalion Anthem

Description: The words of a Battalion Anthem, printed at sea

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Additional: This item is from a collection of documents from my Grandfather's time serving in Mesopotamia, now held by his family.

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ID: 6173210

Title: Basrah Times newpaper

Description: Image of a copy of the Basrah Times. My Grandfather served there in the war.

Connected by: Gwen1292

Additional: This newspaper is from a collection of documents from my Grandfather's time in the war. The collection is now held by his family.

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ID: 6173216

Title: Soldiers Diary

Description: A picture of my Grandfather's 1918 diary

Connected by: Gwen1292

Additional: This is my Grandfather's diary for 1918 describing his life in Mesopotamia that year. It is from a collection of his documents from that time, now held by his family.

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