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ID: 3906529

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/3910340

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7442537

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/640799

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: 8624936

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Yvonne27542

UPP: GBM/WWISD/1012406

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 8688597

Title: Charles Saunders

Description: Charles Saunders, 15th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (1st Leeds Pals)

Connected by: First1803

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ID: 8689217

Name: 1916; Page 155; Saunders, Charles

Title: National Probate Calendars

Description: Saunders, Charles of Beccles Suffolk bank clerk temporary second lieutenant 13th reserve battalion attached 15th (service) battalion West Yorkshire regiment died 1 July 1916 either in France or Belgium Probate Ipswich 14 October to Alma Saunders widow and Benjamin Saunders butcher. Effects £348 12s 7d.

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URL: https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=saunders&yearOfDeath=1916&page=2#calendar
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Additional: Name, rank, regiment, battalion, and date of death match.

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ID: 8689221

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Yvonne27542

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/11011/0453/2

Additional: Name, job, and town match probate records.

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8689226

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 Transcription

Connected by: Yvonne27542

UPP: BMD/M/1915/2/AZ/001235/091

Additional: Name, place, and bride's forename match probate records.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8689230

Name: NAM Accession Number: 1991-02-333; Record Number Ranges: 15601-16600B; Reference: 13

Title: Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects

Description: Records detailing the money owed to soldiers of the British Army who died in service from 1901 to 1929. Record No.: 16523. Registry No.: 118280/2. Name and Rank: Saunders, C, 2 Lieut. Regiment or Corps.: W. Yorks Regt. Date & Place of Death: 1-7-16 In action. To whom payment Authorised: Exrs: Mrs Alma Saunders & Benjamin Saunders Esq (Jointly).

Connected by: Yvonne27542

URL: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=DmR50&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&db=ukarmyregisterseffects&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=charles&gsfn_x=0&gsln=saunders&gsln_x=0&msddd=1&msddd_x=1&msddm=7&msddm_x=1&msddy=1916&msddy_x=1&cpxt=1&cp=11&MSAV=1&uidh=jmn&pcat=39&fh=1&h=698807&recoff=3%204&ml_rpos=2
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ID: 8689232

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Yvonne27542

UPP: GBC/1901/0013160159

Additional: Name, age, birthplace, and father's name match other evidence.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8689487

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Yvonne27542

UPP: GBC/1891/0010907984

Additional: Details match 1901 Census.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8689519

Name: Register entitled “Barclay & Company Limited – Staff on Active Service”; Great Yarmough LHO, page 1.

Reference: Barclays Group Archives

Title: Barclays Bank Active Service Register

Description: A register of Barclays staff on active service, arranged by local head office district. For each man it gives his branch/section at Barclays, whether married or single, the unit in which he was serving, his rank, salary, and a note if killed in action. Earlier entries contain full detail, whereas later entries often include just name. The data on the men’s salaries shows their normal bank salary, their Army pay, and how the bank made up the difference (and of course guaranteed their jobs for them). Further information about the person may be available in Barclays Group Archives. See https://www.archive.barclays.com/

Connected by: Yvonne27542

Additional: The person’s name, military details, and date of death match. Other evidence also shows that he was employed by Barclays Bank in their Beccles branch.

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ID: 8689543

Title: Thiepval Memorial

Description: Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

Additional: Photograph obtained from CWGC Flikr stream at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cwgc/7682743582/in/album-72157630834399112/ under Creative Commons license.

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ID: 8689564

Name: Lowestoft, St Margaret's; Baptisms Register; Norfolk R.O. archive ref Archive reference; Page 106

Title: Baptism

Description: First name(s): Charles. Last name: Saunders. Sex: Male. Birth date: 25 Jan 1888. Baptism date: 30 Mar 1888. Father's first name(s): Benjamin. Mother's first name(s): Maria. Abode: Lowestoft. Father's occupation: Butcher. Notes: P.B. {Private Baptism}.

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URL: http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=gbprs%2fnorfolk%2fbap%2f003702867
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Additional: Name, age, place, and parents details match.

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ID: 8689589

Title: Photographs of Family Gravestone

Description: Family gravestone is St Margaret's Churchyard, Lowestoft Suffolk. Inscription reads: In loving memory of Maria, the beloved wife of Benjamin Saunders, who passed away Sep 10th 1935 aged 78 years also of Benjamin Saunders who died ------- also of their son, 2nd Lieut Charles Saunders 13th Battalion West Yorkshire Regt killed in action in France July 1st 1916 aged 28 years.

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URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=151543751
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ID: 8860911

Title: Last letter home

Description: Transcription of the letter that Charles wrote on the eve of battle, to be forwarded to his family in the event of his death.

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URL: http://www.centenarybattlefieldtours.org/somme100/lieutenant-charles-saunders/
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ID: 8860947

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Yvonne27542

UPP: BMD/B/1916/1/AZ/001233/056

Additional: Birth of daughter. Surname and mother's maiden name match.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8860949

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Yvonne27542

UPP: BMD/B/1888/1/AZ/000502/325

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8955616

Title: Barclays Bank Eastern Districts Roll of Honour

Description: Some of the eastern districts of Barclays Bank had their own rolls of honour made up locally, as printed posters. The printed Roll of Honour for Chelmsford, Colchester, Great Yarmouth, and Ipswich lists the Barclays Bank employees from those districts who served, and includes temporary staff as well as permanent ones.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

Additional: Image copyright Barclays Group Archives. Reference 829/1. This image has kindly been made available by Barclays Group Archives for publication on Lives of the First World War for personal use only, and is subject to Barclays Group Archives terms of use. For permission to publish this image in any form of publication please contact Barclays Group Archives via https://www.archive.barclays.com/contact

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ID: 9151912

Title: War diary entry about his death

Description: Killed in action, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Connected by: Edwin110085

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ID: 9606751

Title: Barclays Bank - We Will Remember Them

Description: Image from Barclays Bank Book of Remembrance - World War One. Completed in April 1959, with parchment pages, the book was decorated and gilded by Dorothy Hutton.

Connected by: James201

Additional: Image copyright Barclays Group Archives www.archive.barclays.com. Book reference 2111/1. This image has kindly been made available by Barclays Group Archives for publication on Lives of the First World War for personal use only, and is subject to Barclays Group Archives terms of use. For permission to publish this image in any form of publication please contact Barclays Group Archives via www.archive.barclays.com/contact.

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ID: 9611977

Name: File 3/1899 - papers about the Barclays war memorial fund

Reference: Barclays Group Archives

Title: Barclays Bank published list of Casualties - 1919

Description: Annotated roll published by Barclays in January 1919. The printed list is headed "Barclays Bank Limited. List of Local Directors and Members of the Staff killed in action, or who have died whilst serving with His Majesty's Forces. 1914-1918.". The hand-written annotations date between 1919 & 1924, and it looks as though they were writing to branches, local head offices and families to obtain details about the men who died. The printed information consists of name, rank, regiment, and bank branch. Written by each name is date of death, and a code indicating whether the person had originally been employed by one of the companies that Barclays had acquired during the war years – i.e., United Counties Bank, London & Provincial Bank Ltd, and London & South Western Bank. Some extra names have also been written on the list. Further information about the person may also be available in Barclays Group Archives. See https://www.archive.barclays.com/

Connected by: Yvonne27542

Additional: Match confirmed based on a combination of the person’s name, rank, regiment, date of death, and other evidence confirming that he was employed by the Bank.

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ID: 9616157

Title: Detail Page from Barclays Bank Book of Remembrance

Description: After WW2 it was decided that the permanent official Barclays Bank memorial should be an illuminated inscribed book of remembrance, one for each war. Originally put on display in a purpose-built wall case at 54 Lombard Street, the books were then put on display in the new head office building in the 1990s, and when the head office moved in 2005 to 1 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, the books were put on display in cases there. The WW1 book lists members of staff who lost their lives serving in the armed forces, separated into Barclays Bank, London and South Western Bank, and London and Provincial Bank. The book has parchment pages, with leather binding, engrossed, decorated and gilded by Dorothy Hutton, and bound by Sydney M Cockerell, and includes illustrations of head offices and coats of arms of the three banks. The image shows the page of the WW1 book which features this person’s name as an employee of Barclays Bank Limited.

Connected by: James201

Additional: Image copyright Barclays Group Archives www.archive.barclays.com. Book reference 2111/1. This image has kindly been made available by Barclays Group Archives for publication on Lives of the First World War for personal use only, and is subject to Barclays Group Archives terms of use. For permission to publish this image in any form of publication please contact Barclays Group Archives via www.archive.barclays.com/contact.

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ID: 9621551

Title: Barclays Bank printed Roll of Honour

Description: Image of the original design for a Barclays Bank colour printed WW1 roll of honour. Reproduced in monochrome in “History of Barclays Bank Limited”, P W Matthews & A W Tuke, 1926, page 396.

Connected by: James201

Additional: Image copyright Barclays Group Archives www.archive.barclays.com, document reference 3/5050. This image has kindly been made available by Barclays Group Archives for publication on Lives of the First World War for personal use only, and is subject to Barclays Group Archives terms of use. For permission to publish this image in any form of publication please contact Barclays Group Archives via www.archive.barclays.com/contact.

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ID: 9622218

Title: Original Barclays Bank Memorial

Description: Image of the original Barclays Bank WW1 memorial panel formerly in the Great Hall at 54 Lombard Street. Published in Spread Eagle (the staff magazine of Barclays Bank), volume 26 (1951), page 461

Connected by: James201

Additional: Image copyright Barclays Group Archives www.archive.barclays.com. This image has kindly been made available by Barclays Group Archives for publication on Lives of the First World War for personal use only, and is subject to Barclays Group Archives terms of use. For permission to publish this image in any form of publication please contact Barclays Group Archives via www.archive.barclays.com/contact