Lives of the First World War

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ID: 3779676

Reference: WO372/17

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=D4903275
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UPP: GBM/MCI/3783376

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9461241

Title: 1/4 Border Regt Memorial Plaque

Description: 1/4 Battalion, Border Rgt. WW1 Memorial. Now stored in Cumbria's Museum of Military Life. The Castle Carlisle.

Connected by: Patricia118341

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ID: 9461482

Title: Penrith Roll of Honour.

Description: List of all the Penrith men who were serving. Believed to be dated before February 1915. It is now stored in Penrith Museum.

Connected by: Patricia118341

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ID: 9462204

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Patricia118341

UPP: GBC/1901/0030557800

Additional: The Names and Surname of all the family match the Life Story

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9462357

Title: Penrith Soldier Presumed Dead

Description: Penrith Observer dated 3rd February 1920 page 5a

Connected by: Patricia118341

Additional: My Grandfather told my Mother who told me that "Robert had not Returned from the war. He was missing presumed dead and had no known grave

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ID: 9462780

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

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

Connected by: Patricia118341

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/1078478

Additional: The link will take you to the amended CWGC record in the name of Robert Oswald Robertson. Robert was misnamed Joseph on his first medal index card, which led to the error.

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 9463877

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Patricia118341

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/31212/0171/5

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9464629

Name: Penrith Observer, dated 16th February 1915

Reference: Penrith Library

Title: Penrith Observer. Roll of Honour.

Description: 'believed to be a complete list of Penrith's contribution to the fighting force of the country'

Connected by: Patricia118341

Additional: The person's name's match and the military details confirm the match

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ID: 9465328

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Anne23518

UPP: GBM/MCI/3782221

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9466637

Title: Penrith Observer Roll of Honour (page 7)

Description: Section of Newspaper article dated 16/02/1915 - 'believed to be a complete list of Penrith's contribution to the fighting force of the country.' Naming Robert and his brother Tom, 5 Watson Terrace Penrith.

Connected by: Patricia118341

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ID: 9471052

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Committee

Description: Entry for Robert Oswald Robertson, service number 200430 1/4 Border Regiment (attached to 1st Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry)

Connected by: Patricia118341

URL: https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/75229635/
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Additional: The person's names match and the Military details confirm the match.

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ID: 9473029

Title: Medal Index Card

Description: Medal Index Card in the name of Joseph Robertson, Border Regiment 1697, 200430. (CWGC agreed in 2015 the card was mis-named and referred to Robert Oswald Robertson)

Connected by: Patricia118341

URL: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/1262/30850_A001326-02895?pid=4149181&backurl=https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc%3DWUb2006%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26indiv%3D1%26db%3Dmedalrolls%26gsln%3DRobertson%26cp%3D0%26_F00061C3%3DBorder%26_F8007A65%3D1697%2520/%2520200430%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26redir%3Dfalse%26uidh%3D2ub%26gss%3Dangs-d%26pcat%3D39%26fh%3D0%26h%3D4149181%26recoff%3D10%252054%252055%26ml_rpos%3D1&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=WUb2006&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true
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Additional: (CWGC agreed in 2015 the card was mis-named and referred to Robert Oswald Robertson)

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9473277

Title: Original Newspaper cutting - No News of Release.

Description: Mid Cumberland & North Westmorland Herald December 14th 1918 Front page. 'No Information -- Last postcard sent two and half years ago from Mosul.

Connected by: Patricia118341

Additional: This cutting was found recently in my Grandmothers cookbook.

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ID: 9475860

Title: Birth Certificate

Description: Copy of birth certificate for Robert Oswald Robertson

Connected by: Patricia118341

Additional: This is the birth certificate of my Gt Uncle, Robert Oswald Robertson, and is part of our Family History Collection. I obtained it to provide evidence for a change of name on CWGC records. (He has two Medal Index Cards, the primary in the erroneous name of Joseph Robertson). CWGC looked at all the evidence and agreed a mis-naming had occurred and amended their records in 2015.

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ID: 9478199

Name: Page 3 col. 1

Title: Penrith Observer 5th December 1916

Description: Experiences of the 1/4 Border Men at Kut. Told by Pte T Sanderson, exchanged prisoner.

Connected by: Patricia118341

URL: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1916-12-05?basicsearch=t%20sanderson&exactsearch=false&place=penrith%2c%20cumberland%2c%20england&county=cumberland%2c%20england&retrievecountrycounts=false&mostspecificlocation=penrith%2c%20cumberland%2c%20england&newspapertitle=penrith%2bobserver&sortorder=2
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Additional: Shared Battle and Siege experience.

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ID: 9510328

Name: Joseph Robertson 1697/200430 Border Regiment

Title: WW1 Medal and Award Rolls. Ancestry.

Description: British War Medal and Victory Medal Award Roll for 'Joseph' Robertson. Pte. 1697, 1/4 Border Regiment / 200430, Border Regiment.

Connected by: Patricia118341

URL: https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&db=IWOServiceMedalAwardRolls&h=5086978
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Additional: CWGC agreed in 2015 that a clerical error had occurred in Army documents and the information on this document referred to Robert Oswald Robertson

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ID: 9512964

Title: Local Prisoners at Kut

Description: Penrith Observer article dated 13th June 1916. War Office list of Prisoners presumed captured at the 'Fall of Kut'. The end of the article states R Robertson belongs to Penrith, his camp address is Mossoul Turkey.

Connected by: Patricia118341

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ID: 9513391

Name: Joseph Robert Robertson, Border Regt. 200430

Title: Register of Soldiers' Effects. Ancestry

Description: Army Register showing details: Robertson Joseph Robert, Border Rgt (att'd Ox & Bks LI. ) Died 18.1 - 18.7.16 Mesopot. Death presumed. £17.8.9d to - Brothers James, John, Thomas, Harold. Sisters Annie, Isabel & May. Dated 14.03.1920

Connected by: Patricia118341

URL: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/ukarmyregisterseffects/?name=robert++joseph_Robertson&death=_iraq_5115&f-F00061C3=Border&f-F8007A65=200430&name_x=s_1
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ID: 9514680

Title: Penrith Territorial Parade 5th Aug 1914

Description: Men of the 4th Border (Territorial) Regiment) leave Penrith for Barrow Barracks, 5pm on the 5th August 1914. Postcard.

Connected by: Patricia118341

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ID: 9565919

Title: ICRC Inquiry Summary

Description: International Committee of the Red Cross report relating to Annie's search for Robert as a POW in Mosul.

Connected by: Patricia118341

Additional: Annie searched for Robert from 1916 to 1919

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ID: 9568136

Title: Card 2

Description: Shows an enquiry made for Robert and the replies to his sister Annie, based on reports from the Turkish Red Crescent.

Connected by: Patricia118341

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ID: 9568144

Title: Card 3

Description: Summary of final 'negative' replies from Constantinople to Annie in 1919 regarding Robert Robertson, Private 1697 1/4 Border R. (att. Oxford & Bucks)

Connected by: Patricia118341

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ID: 9586039

Name: Page 2, 'Local Prisoners at Kut'

Title: Penrith Observer, 13th June 1916

Description: Penrith Observer edition of Tuesday 13 June 1916 (Page 2), R Robertson named as one of the “Local Prisoners at Kut”: “The Secretary of the War Office has forwarded the following list of members of the 1/4th and 2/4th Battalions of the Border Regiment, attached to the 1st Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, who are presumed to have been captured by the Turks at the fall of Kut-el-Amara, all being privates except one: 1/4th Border – G. Bowness, J. Gardiner, G. Carruthers, J. Porthouse, E. Wilson, N. Kegg, R. Robertson, Lance-Corporal A. Edge, H. Andrew, J. Bulman, W. Coates, R. Strickland, H. Park, R. Cherry”. The end of the article states R Robertson belongs to Penrith, his camp address is Mossoul Turkey.

Connected by: Patricia118341

URL: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1916-06-01/1916-06-30?basicsearch=robertson&exactsearch=false&retrievecountrycounts=false&newspapertitle=penrith%2bobserver
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ID: 9590517

Title: Local Territorials at Kut

Description: Article reproduced with kind permission of Carlisle Library. Cumberland News dated 10th June 1916 (3G). War Office Official List of Presumed Prisoners after the Siege of Kut. Includes: 1/4 Border, Private 1697 R. Robertson. The end of the article states Private R Robertson belongs to Penrith and his camp address is Mossoul Turkey

Connected by: Patricia118341