Lives of the First World War

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ID: 3518599

Reference: WO372/16

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=D4642005
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UPP: GBM/MCI/3522106

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7034548

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/138649/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/52316

Additional: This record has been automatically matched to the Life Story by IWM, using rules based on name, rank, number, regiment and service.

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Source information

ID: 9577058

Name: ISBN978-1-910777-12-1

Title: 'A Touch of Paradise in Hell'

Description: The story of Talbot House (Toc H) from when it was established in Poperinge through to the end of the war. Through the use of letters including those of Chaplain Philip ‘Tubby’ Clayton, archives and first-hand accounts the book’s author Jan Louagie (Honorary Secretary to the Talbot House Association) gives the reader a clear insight into the daily life of this best known ‘Every-Man’s Club’ and reveals how it offered a sanctuary, a ‘home from home’ for over half a million men on their way to the front.

Connected by: Sylvia3155

Additional: On the 21st May Army Chaplain Philip 'Tubby' Clayton wrote to Gunner Pike's wife to tell her that he had conducted her husband's funeral.

Source information

ID: 9577067

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Sylvia3155

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0410324

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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