Lives of the First World War

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ID: 3662472

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=D4785996
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UPP: GBM/MCI/3666097

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6656506

Title: Wikipedia entry

Description: John Raphael

Connected by: Ian19945

URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Raphael_%28sportsman%29
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Additional: matches wikipedia

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ID: 8637719

Title: John Edward Raphael

Description: Portrait of John Raphael in his England rugby jersey.

Connected by: Katherine27600

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ID: 8637881

Title: MCC MEMBERS WORLD WAR 1 MEMORIAL

Description: The wooden memorial can be found at the top of the stairs of the Lords pavillion and lists 330 members of the cricket club who lost their lives in WW1. Name, date elected,date of death and place of burial are given.

Connected by: Katherine27600

URL: http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Middlesex/LordsWW1.html
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Additional: The names, date of death and military details match his life story.

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ID: 8637886

Name: Saturday, March 19, 2011

Title: St Jude-on-the-Hill,The Parish Church of Hampstead Garden Suburb: J.E. Raphael Memorial

Description: A posting on the parish church's website regarding the memorials to John Raphael.

Connected by: Katherine27600

URL: http://www.stjudeonthehill.com/2011/03/raphael-memorial.html
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Additional: The names, date of death, Military details and sporting details match his life story.

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ID: 8637889

Name: PUBLISHED: 00:01, Thu, Mar 27, 2014

Title: The Express newapaper: Mother reunited at last with her First World War hero son

Description: An article by Lesley Bellew re the story of how John Raphael's mother was, after her cremation, secretly buried with her son. There is other information re John.

Connected by: Katherine27600

URL: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world-war-1/467102/Mother-reunited-at-last-with-her-First-World-War-hero-son
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Additional: Names, date of death and military details match his life story.

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ID: 8637890

Name: Issue 75, Oct 17 2014, page 33

Title: Scissorum 75 : The Merchant Taylors' School weekly school newsletter.

Description: An article in the newsletter by Michael Hale regarding John Raphael.

Connected by: Katherine27600

URL: http://www.mtsn.org.uk/scissorumFB/75Lo/index.html#33/z
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Additional: The names match and the military details confrim the match.

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ID: 8637893

Name: ISBN 978 1 78159 087 4. Nigel McCrery 2014. Pen and Sword Military

Title: Into Touch: Rugby Internationals killed in the Great War

Description: An google book. See title. A biography , with photo, of John Raphael.

Connected by: Katherine27600

URL: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_eE7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=john+edward+raphael,+cricketer&source=bl&ots=fo_UZv_HxV&sig=_lhN4rcvVQFm0iyp3FNNTSFGHoE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo5LPz_MnLAhWIVRQKHTviA1Q4ChDoAQggMAE#v=onepage&q=john%20edward%20raphael%2C%20cricketer&f=false
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Additional: The names match and the military details confirm the match.

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ID: 8637894

Name: Page created: 3 December 2014

Title: J.C.R-UK; Oxford Jewish Community.Oxford Jewish Casualties in the Great War

Description: A paper written by Harold Pollins listing Jewish men from Oxford who served in WW1.The paper is also published in The Bulletin of the Military Historical Society, vol. 65, pp. 92-101, November 2014

Connected by: Katherine27600

URL: http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/oxford_articles/Oxford_Jewish_Casualties_WWI.htm
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Additional: The names match and the military details confirm the match.

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ID: 8638030

Title: Lijssenthoek Military cemetery: John Edward Raphael

Description: A biography of John Raphael and location of his grave on the site of the cemetery where he is buried. There are a number of images of him.

Connected by: Katherine27600

URL: http://www.lijssenthoek.be/en/adres/3807/-john-edward-raphael.html
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Additional: The names match as does his date of death and military details.

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ID: 8638032

Name: 1 Feb 2016 John Hoskins

Title: Southern Daily Echo

Description: An article on how "Britain's finest rugby players set off from Southampton to make history by introducing the sport to Argentina". John Raphael was one of those rugby players.

Connected by: Katherine27600

URL: http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/14244700.Rugby_players_left_Hampshire_to_make_sporting_history/
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Additional: The names match as do his sporting details and 2 images of him.

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ID: 8638040

Title: Modern rugby football

Description: A picture of John Raphael at the front of thebook he wrote entitled "Modern Rugby Football"

Connected by: Katherine27600

Additional: A picture from ebay.

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ID: 8638043

Title: Modern rugby football

Description: The cover of the book by John Raphael.

Connected by: Katherine27600

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ID: 8919610

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records Transcription

Connected by: Catherine91214

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/59844

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 8919934

Title: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen -1

Description: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium where John Raphael is buried.

Connected by: Vincent96527

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ID: 8919936

Title: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen -2

Description: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium where John Raphael is buried.

Connected by: Vincent96527

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ID: 8919938

Title: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen -3

Description: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium where John Raphael is buried.

Connected by: Vincent96527

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ID: 8919939

Title: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen -4

Description: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium where John Raphael is buried.

Connected by: Vincent96527

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ID: 8919940

Title: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen -5

Description: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium where John Raphael is buried.

Connected by: Vincent96527

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ID: 8919944

Title: Honourable Artillery Company Cap Badge

Description: Honourable Artillery Company Cap Badge, similar to the one which would have been worn by John Raphael.

Connected by: Vincent96527

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ID: 8998432

Title: John's grave, Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery

Description: Photograph taken by Charlotte Czyzyk, May 2017

Connected by: Charlotte33

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ID: 9051377

Reference: gbm_hac_mem_books

Title: HAC vellum membership books 1908-1922 Transcription

Connected by: Catherine91214

UPP: GBM/HAC/MEMBOOKS/2545

Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast

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ID: 9051429

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Catherine91214

UPP: GBM/WWISD/1030211

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 9051433

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Catherine91214

UPP: GBC/1891/0003870578

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9051440

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Catherine91214

UPP: GBC/1901/0003468213

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9627747

Name: The Times 2 May 1882

Reference: The Times Digital Archive

Title: The Times (London, England)

Description: “On the 30th April, at Rue du Congrès, Brussels, the wife of ALBERT RAPHAEL, of a son.”

Connected by: Barbara32709

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ID: 9627905

Reference: bmd_overseas_births_1

Title: British armed forces and overseas births and baptisms Transcription

Connected by: Ann39898

UPP: BMD/OVS/BCON/000640/027

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ID: 9627910

Reference: gbm_hac_idx_cards

Title: HAC World War One record cards 1914-1919 Transcription

Connected by: Ann39898

UPP: GBM/HAC/IDXCARDS/9002

Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast

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