Lives of the First World War

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ID: 3557547

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=D4680989
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UPP: GBM/MCI/3561090

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6157022

Title: Private Ernest Benjamin PORTER - Photo 1915c

Description: Private Ernest Benjamin Porter G/21278 in Uniform of A Company 13th Battalion of The Middlesex Regiment, part of the 73rd Infantry Brigade of 24th Division in September 1915.

Connected by: Brian25109

Additional: This is my Gt Uncle. Ernest B Porter was born on 26 March 1889 died on the 1st May 1916 from the effects of Gas Poisoning.

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ID: 6157067

Title: Letter from E B Porter Company Commander

Description: Letter advising Ernest B Porter had been Killed in Action dated 3 May 1916 sent by Lt C K Allen., Commanding A Coy

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Additional: Original letter sent from the front to Ernest's father Sackville Porter

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ID: 6162415

Title: Grave of E B Porter

Description: Buried Plot 2 Row B Grave 96 in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

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Additional: Letter from Commonwealth War Graves Commission dated 03 03 1986

Source information

ID: 7134752

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.

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URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/201164/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/152865

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

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ID: 9553876

Title: Ernest B Porter Private G/21278

Description: Photo taken in 1915 prior to embarkation to France with 13th Middlesex Regiment. Gased in France on 30th April and died as a result on 1st May 1916. Buried at Bailleul Communal cemetery extension Nord. France

Connected by: Brian25109

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ID: 9553918

Title: Ernest B Porter

Description: Enlistment photo from 1915. Ernest signed up at Mill Hill, Middlesex

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