Lives of the First World War

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ID: 4193746

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=D5318737
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UPP: GBM/MCI/4197773

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6656721

Reference: gbm_derevigny

Title: De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918 Transcription

Connected by: debbie2674

UPP: GBM/DR/13239

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Credit: © Naval and Military Press

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ID: 6656723

Reference: wwisd

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

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UPP: GBM/WWISD/1011767

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Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 6656724

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: debbie2674

UPP: GBC/1901/0012010677

Additional: match

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 6657524

Title: wikipedia entry

Description: biographical details

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URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sorley
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ID: 6657530

Title: in uniform

Description: photo in uniform

Connected by: debbie2674

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ID: 6657531

Title: details of his life and poetry

Description: details of his life, including example of his poetry

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URL: http://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/sorley.htm
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ID: 7089905

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/1769484/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/952242

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Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 8545542

Title: All the Hills and Vales Along by Charles Sorley

Description: The Poetry Society website

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: http://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/all-the-hills-and-vales-along/
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ID: 8545569

Name: Catalogue number: Documents.22827

Title: Papers in IWM Collections

Description: Photocopies of ten ms poems (14pp) and three ms letters (10pp) written March 1913 - August 1915, partly while at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, and then with 7th (Service) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment (35th Brigade in 12th (Eastern) Division) from August 1914 to his death in action at Hulluch, north of Loos (13 October 1915). The poems were later published in 'Marlborough and Other Poems' (Cambridge University Press, 1916), and the letter to his Aunt Mary contains details about conditions in France and Belgium (August 1915). Together with a ts script (5pp) for a ceremony dedicating 'Sorley's Signpost' at Marlborough College (October 1976), and an issue of 'The Marlburian' containing an account of the dedication ceremony.

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030029740
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ID: 8852676

Name: photo by Thom Atkinson

Title: The Telegraph - Inventories of War

Description: Photograph of Charles Sorley's kit bag.

Connected by: Kristen1288

URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/11006139/Inventories-of-war-soldiers-kit-from-1066-to-2014.html
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ID: 8852686

Name: by Charles Sorley, 1916

Title: Marlborough and Other Poems

Description: Posthumously published collection of poems.

Connected by: Kristen1288

URL: https://archive.org/details/marlboroughother00sorluoft
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ID: 8878747

Name: page 54, published in 1919

Title: The New Elizabethans - The Absolute Poet

Description: 'The New Elizabethans: A first selection of the lives of young men who have fallen in the great war' by E B Osborn contains a chapter about Charles Hamilton Sorley.

Connected by: Kristen1288

URL: https://archive.org/details/newelizabethansf00osbo
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ID: 8893829

Title: Loos memorial

Description: Remembered on Panel 37 & 38

Connected by: Patricia68049

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ID: 8893848

Title: Scottish Poetry Library

Description: Biography of Sorley

Connected by: Patricia68049

URL: http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poets/charles-hamilton-sorley
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ID: 9136941

Title: Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France 2

Description: Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France where Charles Sorley is honoured and remembered.

Connected by: Vincent96527

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ID: 9136943

Title: Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France 3

Description: Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France where Charles Sorley is honoured and remembered.

Connected by: Vincent96527

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ID: 9137047

Title: BBC Scotland Article - Charles Sorley.

Connected by: Vincent96527

URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-42752781
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ID: 9137053

Title: Suffolk Regiment Cap Badge

Description: Suffolk Regiment Cap Badge, similar to the one which would have been worn by Charles Sorley.

Connected by: Vincent96527

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ID: 9137055

Title: 1914-15 Star

Description: 1914-15 Star, similar to the one which would have been awarded to Charles Sorley.

Connected by: Vincent96527

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ID: 9137057

Title: Victory Medal

Description: Victory Medal, similar to the one which would have been awarded to Charles Sorley.

Connected by: Vincent96527

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ID: 9137058

Title: British War Medal

Description: British War Medal, similar to the one which would have been awarded to Charles Sorley.

Connected by: Vincent96527

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ID: 9137062

Title: Ancestry - Register of Soldiers Effects

Connected by: Vincent96527

URL: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/60506/42511_6117462_0265-00208?pid=63204&backurl=https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gss%3Dangs-c%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26msT%3D1%26gsfn%3Dcharles%2Bhamilton%26gsfn_x%3DNP_NN_NIC%26gsln%3Dsorley%26gsln_x%3D0%26cpxt%3D1%26cp%3D11%26MSAV%3D1%26uidh%3D60j%26pcat%3D39%26h%3D63204%26recoff%3D3%2B4%2B5%26dbid%3D60506%26indiv%3D1%26ml_rpos%3D10%26hovR%3D1&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true
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ID: 9352071

Name: The Cambridge Magazine, 6/11/1915

Reference: Cambridge University Library

Title: Captain C H Sorley

Description: Obituary of Captain C H Sorley.

Connected by: Joanna19174

Additional: Name, rank, regiment, and date of death match.

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ID: 9524177

Title: "When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead" with discussion

Description: Discussion with biographical details and excerpts from Sorley's letters.

Connected by: Connie110407

URL: https://behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2015/05/when-you-see-millions-of-mouthless-dead.html
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ID: 9524184

Title: Robert Graves' poem remembering Charles Sorley

Description: "Sorley's Weather" (written by Robert Graves) and Sorley's poem "Rain"

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URL: https://behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-ghost-of-sorley.html
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