Lives of the First World War

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ID: 380486

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.

UPP: GBM/MCI/0380777

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7001303

Title: Captain Alfred Edward ( Bill ) Bland

Description: Portrait Image

Connected by: Tim50057

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ID: 7309159

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

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/423420

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: 8580400

Title: PRO War memorial

Description: Features Bland.

Connected by: Edward43379

URL: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/records/war-memorial-research-hmso-pro.xls
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ID: 8580401

Name: WO 339/19222

Title: Service record

Description: National Archives.

Connected by: Edward43379

URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1073143
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ID: 8580402

Title: PRO War Memorial

Description: In what is now the Maughan Library in Kings College London. Features Bland.

Connected by: Edward43379

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ID: 8614903

Name: Documents.20673

Title: Papers in IWM Collections

Description: Ts transcriptions of a large series of letters (November 1915 - June 1916) written to his wife while a Captain with the 22nd (Service) (7th City) Battalion Manchester Regiment (Manchester Pals) (91st Brigade, 30th Division, and later 7th Division), and end with his death on the first day of the Battle of the Somme (1 July 1916), with descriptions of the crossing to France, billeting, the trenches, a course at the 3rd Army School of Instruction (December 1915), his religious beliefs and patriotism, fellow officers including Captain Charles May, a raid on German trenches on 2 June 1916, and throughout his deep love for his wife and children.

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030027331
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Additional: Matches Medal Index Card

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ID: 8614904

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: GBM/WWISD/1023962

Additional: Matches Commonwealth War Graves Commission record

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 8614906

Name: ISBN 0330492063

Reference: Own copy

Title: The Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme by Malcolm Brown

Description: This book offers a remarkably fresh perspective on the bitterly fought 1916 campaign; it also describes the later battles of the Somme in the Great War's final year, 1918. Using hitherto unpublished evidence from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, it tells its powerful and dramatic story through the letters and diaries of those who were there. Distinguished military historian Malcolm Brown has woven the many and varied accounts by well over a hundred participants - mainly British, but with not a few Germans - into a rich tapestry of experience.

Connected by: Charlotte33

Additional: Matches Commonwealth War Graves Commission record

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ID: 8614956

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/03370/0393/1

Additional: Matches information from the Book of the Somme

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8614994

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 Transcription

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: BMD/M/1905/3/AZ/000037/161

Additional: Matches 1911 census

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8615017

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: GBC/1901/0033830568

Additional: Matches information from the Book of the Somme

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8615028

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: BMD/B/1881/2/AZ/000055/219

Additional: Matches census records

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8615030

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: GBC/1891/0015848676

Additional: Matches other connected census records

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8615049

Reference: 1881gbc

Title: 1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: GBC/1881/0013099249

Additional: Matches 1891 census

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8693041

Title: Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz

Description: Final resting place of Alfred Edward Bland of the 22nd Battalion Manchester Regiment. Grave Ref. 1X.B,6.

Connected by: Desmond1478

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ID: 8741805

Title: CENTENARY OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME.

Description: We will remember them.

Connected by: Desmond1478

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ID: 8741812

Title: The Battle of the Somme.

Description: Lest we forget.

Connected by: Desmond1478

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ID: 8741816

Title: The Battle of the Somme.

Description: Memorial Wreath.

Connected by: Desmond1478

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