Lives of the First World War

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ID: 3884961

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=D5008651
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UPP: GBM/MCI/3888752

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 5496479

Title: Personal Knowledge of DAVID HURLEY

Description: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

Connected by: DAVID7560

Additional: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

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ID: 5496628

Title: Grave of 2nd-Lieutenant Wilfred Graham SALMON.

Description: Headstone seen in Watling Street Cemetery, Dartford, Kent, England, in November 2013. 2nd-Lieutenant Wilfred Graham SALMON. Royal Flying Corps (Late-Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.)). Killed in Action, 7 July 1917. Aged 22 years.

Connected by: DAVID7560

Additional: Grave headstone.

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ID: 9291657

Name: Local history website created by the London Borough of Bexley in 2017

Title: Wilfred Salmon and the First Blitz

Description: "November 30th 2017 marks the centenary of the first flight of the Vickers Vimy, a plane that would go into aviation history as the first to cross the Atlantic in 1919. It was designed and built by Vickers in Crayford with the aim of creating a plane that could bomb Berlin and seek revenge for what Londoners came to call the First Blitz. Few people realise that the impetus to build this revolutionary plane also has a link to the local area. It arose from the death of a brave Australian RFC pilot, 2nd Lt Wilfred Salmon, who took off from Vickers’ airfield at Joyce Green to take on an armada of 22 Gotha bombers single handed. His Sopwith Pup crashed in Crayford at Slade Green on July 7th 1917. Salmon’s demise came at the end of a deadly raid over central London, that prompted the formation of the Royal Air Force, the Royal family to change their name and the commissioning of a plane that could seek revenge, the Vickers Vimy"

Connected by: Diane660

URL: http://wilfredsalmon.crayfordhistory.co.uk/index/home
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Additional: The webiste includes a booklet giving the details of Wilfred Graham Salmons life.

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ID: 9297953

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

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

Connected by: Diane660

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/269093

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Source information

ID: 9298047

Title: Portrait of Lieutenant Wilfred Graham Salmon

Description: Taken from the Australian War Memorial website - https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C636. (Copyright in public domain)

Connected by: Diane660

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