Lives of the First World War

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ID: 4167428

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=D5292394
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UPP: GBM/MCI/4171430

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8653002

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Linda571

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0351686

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 8653004

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

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

Connected by: Linda571

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/63482

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 8653015

Name: Smith, Thomas 19842

Title: Army Register of Soldiers' Effects

Description: A listing of the disposal of back pay and war gratuity for deceased soldiers. Usually gives next of kin.

Connected by: Linda571

URL: http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/60506/42511_6117462_0117-00097/774017?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dUKArmyRegistersEffects%26gss%3dsfs28_ms_db%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gsfn%3dthomas%26gsfn_x%3d0%26gsln%3dsmith%26gsln_x%3d0%26_F8007A65%3d19842%26MSAV%3d1%26uidh%3dln3&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults
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ID: 8653022

Name: 8 Sep 1917

Reference: Barnsley Archives

Title: Barnsley Chronicle

Description: A newspaper cutting reporting the death of this man.

Connected by: Linda571

Additional: We know Thomas died in August 1917, this piece refers to Hemingfield and is just a few weeks later, the usual time it took a death to be recorded.

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ID: 8653028

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Linda571

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/27615/0081/7

Additional: We know Thomas's sister, his sole legatee in Soldiers' Effects is called Susannah Lockwood. Here he is boarding with her and her husband Fred.

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8847282

Title: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry badge

Description: A metal badge depicting a white rose inside the coil of a brass horn.

Connected by: Linda571

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ID: 8990229

Title: T Smith named on Jump War Memorial

Description: A pillar of pale stone with large plinth above. T Smith is named towards the bottom of the list.

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ID: 8990231

Name: BWMP #JMP03

Title: Barnsley War Memorials Project - Jump War Memorial

Description: A web page with photo of this war memorial and transcription of names, links to other information.

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URL: http://www.barnsleywarmemorials.org.uk/2013/11/jump-war-memorial-cemetery-road-jump.html
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Additional: Thomas Smith is remembered here.

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