Lives of the First World War

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ID: 4167472

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.

UPP: GBM/MCI/4171474

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 5520626

Reference: gbm_wo363-4

Title: British Army Service Records 1914-1920 Transcription

Connected by: Roger22215

UPP: GBM/WO363-4/7325264/27/562

Additional: Surname and first name match. Service number matches that on medal in possession of the family. His widow's name [Edith Hunting] and those of their son [Chas Edward RUFFELL] and daughter [Winifred Violet Ada RUFFELL]. Address of this family [66 Prebend Street, Islington N1] known by his daughter Winifred.

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 5520640

Reference: bmd_overseas_deaths_arr1

Title: GRO WAR DEATHS ARMY OTHER RANKS (1914 to1921) Transcription

Connected by: Roger22215

UPP: BMD/OVS/ARR1/003394/121

Additional: Surname and first name match as do service number and regiment. Date of death known by the family.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 5520645

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Roger22215

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0506773

Additional: Surname and first name match as do service number and regiment. Date of death known to family.

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

Source information

ID: 5520659

Title: Thomas William RUFFELL

Description: The only photograph that exists of him. Taken about 1909 when he was 24.

Connected by: Roger22215

Source information

ID: 5520716

Name: Application number: W005968

Reference: Copy obtained from General Record Office

Title: Copy of birth certificate

Description: This is a copy of the full birth certificate. I obtained it on 12th December 1995.

Connected by: Roger22215

Additional: Thomas William Ruffell served as Thomas Smith. In the service records this was accepted on application by his widow.

Source information

ID: 5520722

Name: True copy of entry no. 10 in Register Book of Marriages for Kingston, Surrey

Reference: Passed down in the family

Title: Marriage certificate

Description: Marriage of my grandfather Thomas Ruffell to my grandmother Edith Adamson.

Connected by: Roger22215

Additional: Thomas Ruffell served as Thomas Smith. This is accepted in the service records on application by his widow.

Source information

ID: 5520766

Title: Memorial Plaque

Description: Memorial plaque and accompanying letter. Awarded to the next of kin of those who lost their life whilst on active service during WW1.

Connected by: Roger22215

Additional: This was awarded to my grandmother on the death of her husband Thomas Ruffell [alias Smith]. Handed to me in 2006 by my cousin.

Source information

ID: 5520774

Title: Memorial Plaque

Description: Edge of the plaque showing service number, rank and name.

Connected by: Roger22215

Additional: My grandfather, Thomas William Ruffell, served as Thomas Smith. This is confirmed in the service records.

Source information

ID: 5520780

Title: 1914 Star and British war medals.

Description: Awarded to Thomas Smith.

Connected by: Roger22215

Additional: My grandfather Thomas William Ruffell served as Thomas Smith. This is confirmed in the service records.

Source information

ID: 5520787

Title: Reverse of 1914 Star and British War medals

Description: Awarded to Thoimas Smith 5685, KRRC.

Connected by: Roger22215

Additional: My grandfather Thomas William Ruffell served as Thomas Smith. This is confirmed in the service records.

Source information

ID: 5520816

Title: King's Royal Rifle Corps memorial.

Description: Memorial in front of the Bellewarde Leisure Park, Menin Road [out of Ypres, Belgium]. On the site of the Hooge Chateau bitterly contested throughout the war.

Connected by: Roger22215

Additional: My grandfather Thomas William Ruffell served as Thomas Smith. This is confirmed in the service records. He was in 2nd Battalion KRRC.

Source information

ID: 5520823

Title: Panel on Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium

Description: Members of the King's Royal Rifle Corps who have no known grave. Smith T. is near the bottom.

Connected by: Roger22215

Additional: My grandfather Thomas William Ruffell served as Thomas Smith. This is confirmed in the service records.

Source information

ID: 5520838

Name: Application number: F2000/8916/X

Reference: Copy obtained from General Record Office

Title: Copy of death certificate for Thomas Smith

Description: This is a copy of the death certificate. I obtained it on 11th September 2000.

Connected by: Roger22215

Additional: My grandfather Thomas William Ruffell served as Thomas Smith. This is confirmed in the service records.

Source information

ID: 5948109

Title: Personal Knowledge of Roger Carnt

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

Connected by: Roger22215

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

Source information

ID: 6152498

Name: Search for Thomas and Edith Ruffell aged 25 and 22.

Reference: Ancestry

Title: 1911 Census

Connected by: Roger22215

Additional: All names and ages match as does the addres = 6 Canon Street, Islington

Source information

ID: 6152557

Name: 93 Queen's Cottages Islington

Reference: Ancestry

Title: 1901 Census

Description: At home with his mother, brother, half brothers and half sister. Search for Thomas RUFFEL (ie not the final 'L') aged 15.

Connected by: Roger22215

Additional: All family names match, ages too.

Source information

ID: 7466838

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/725324

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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