Lives of the First World War

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ID: 3847845

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.

UPP: GBM/MCI/3851597

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7385702

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/640057

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: 8696860

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Anne23518

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0169807

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 8697115

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Fife3190

UPP: GBM/MCI/4998377

Additional: DCM Card

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9652695

Title: Thiepval Memorial

Description: This is the panel on which Angus Royan is commemorated

Connected by: Sandra142469

Additional: We visited during a tour of family war graves in France in November 2018

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ID: 9652768

Title: Thiepval Memorial to the Missing

Description: A view of this outstanding memorial on a beautiful day in November 2018

Connected by: Sandra142469

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ID: 9652849

Title: Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901 - 1929

Description: Payments due to the soldier's descendants

Connected by: Sandra142469

URL: https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60506&h=489714&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=tvH18&_phstart=successSource
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Additional: The names match

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ID: 9652899

Title: Moray Library Libindex

Description: This index lists details sourced from the local newspapers, and gives references to sources in these newspapers as well as biographical information

Connected by: Sandra142469

URL: http://libindx.moray.gov.uk/people/people_report_view.asp?REF_ID=NM158443
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Additional: Some of the details are a little different from my research, but basically it is the right person.

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ID: 9652947

Title: Birth certificate

Description: This is part of the transcription of his birth certificate

Connected by: Sandra142469

Additional: He was married to an ancestor of mine

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