Lives of the First World War

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ID: 342012

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.

URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D1327700
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UPP: GBM/MCI/0342276

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 5477915

Title: Arthur Herbert Thomas Billington

Description: Knowledge comes from research undertaken from official records on Ancestry.com

Connected by: Heather258

Additional: Knowledge comes from research undertaken from official records on Ancestry.com

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ID: 5520707

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/B/1897/2/AZ/000051/124

Additional: This is the birth record for my great uncle Arthur Herbert Thomas Billington. ALso known as Herbert Billington.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 5520709

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/07257/0101/1

Additional: This is the 1911 census record for Herbert's father and family. James (Herbert) Billington is my great grandfather.

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 5520781

Name: WGC Memorial Certificate for Private Herbert Billington

Title: WGC Memorial Certificate for Private Herbert Billington

Description: War Graves Commission Memorial Certificate for my paternal great uncle Private Herbert Billington.

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URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/205581/BILLINGTON,%20H
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Additional: War Graves Commission Memorial Certificate for my paternal great uncle Private Herbert Billington. DOD 7th October 1916 and buried at Bancourt British Cemetery near Bapaume.

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ID: 5520793

Reference: gbm_wo363-4

Title: British Army Service Records 1914-1920 Transcription

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UPP: GBM/WO363-4/7289981/4/88

Additional: This is the service record for my paternal great uncle Herbert Billington who was killed in action on 7th October 1916. Florence L Billington named as next of kin is Herbert's step-mother.

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 5520796

Reference: wwisd

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

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UPP: GBM/WWISD/0497066

Additional: This record denotes the death of my paternal great uncle Private Herbert Billington.

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 7942805

Title: Herbert Billington

Description: Herbert whose full name was Arthur Herbert Thomas Billington served with the Middlesex Regiment. He died Les Boeufs Trenches, Somme Battlefield on 7 October 1916, age 19.

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Additional: Herbert was my great uncle, his brother Frederick James Billington, my grandfather also served in WW1, granddad survived.

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ID: 7942807

Title: Private Herbert Billington

Description: Private Arthur Herbert Thomas Billington (known as Herbert Billington) died Les Boeufs Trenches, Somme Battlefield on 7 October 1916, age 19.

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