Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 4472310

Reference: WO372/20

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=D5597507
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UPP: GBM/MCI/4476543

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 6987635

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Anne1202

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0371049

Additional: Names, military details match the records held by the CWGC Messines British Cemetery Belgium

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

Source information

ID: 6987639

Name: Chawleigh Private Ernest Tonkins

Title: Devon Heritage

Description: Chawleigh the four war memorials

Connected by: Anne1202

URL: http://www.devonheritage.org/places/chawleigh
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Additional: Names, military details and date of death match the records held by the CSGC

Source information

ID: 6987645

Title: Messines Ridge British Cemetery

Description: Cemetery where Private Ernest George Tonkins of the Cheshire Regiment is buried and commemorated

Connected by: Anne1202

Source information

ID: 7207790

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/482717/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/366886

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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