Lives of the First World War

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ID: 4012501

Reference: WO372/18

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=D5136302
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UPP: GBM/MCI/4016403

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7457761

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

URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/916622/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/724300

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

Source information

ID: 8969901

Title: Bugler Samuel Shields

Description: In uniform about 1915

Connected by: Kay44475

Source information

ID: 8969910

Name: 1898 610/A63

Title: Birth certificate

Description: born at Elbow Lane, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire on 24 May 1898 to Samuel Shields engine fitter and Elizabeth Gray Dunsmore

Connected by: Kay44475

URL: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
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