Lives of the First World War

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ID: 4338344

Reference: WO372/19

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/4342472

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7209095

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/386446

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: 9366405

Name: 73888

Title: Family gravestone commemorating the Swinburn brothers - IWM information

Description: Gravestone of Henry and Elizabeth Hannah Swinburn in the churchyard at Crosthwaite (St Kentigern's Church), Keswick, on which their sons John and Joseph are remembered. The part of the inscription relating to them reads .... "... ALSO OF JOHN [SWINBURN] THEIR SON/WHO WAS KILLED IN THE GREAT WAR/DEC 6TH 1917 AGED 30 YEARS/AND WAS INTERRED IN/SANCTUARY WOOD, YPRES/ALSO OF JOSEPH THEIR SON/WHO DIED OF WOUNDS APRIL 24TH 1918 AGED 37 YEARS/AND WAS INTERRED AT /ETAPLES CEMETERY"

Connected by: Yvonne27542

URL: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/73888
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ID: 9366406

Title: Family gravestone

Description: Gravestone of Henry and Elizabeth Hannah Swinburn in the churchyard at Crosthwaite (St Kentigern's Church), Keswick, on which their sons John and Joseph are remembered. The part of the inscription relating to them reads .... "... ALSO OF JOHN [SWINBURN] THEIR SON/WHO WAS KILLED IN THE GREAT WAR/DEC 6TH 1917 AGED 30 YEARS/AND WAS INTERRED IN/SANCTUARY WOOD, YPRES/ALSO OF JOSEPH THEIR SON/WHO DIED OF WOUNDS APRIL 24TH 1918 AGED 37 YEARS/AND WAS INTERRED AT /ETAPLES CEMETERY"

Connected by: Yvonne27542

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ID: 9366409

Title: Lives of the First World War record for brother John

Description: Link to Lives of the First World War record for Joseph's brother John.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

URL: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/4338341
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