Lives of the First World War

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ID: 4477531

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.

UPP: GBM/MCI/4481768

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8503200

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Peter6648

UPP: GBM/MCI/5415867

Additional: Surname, three initials, regiment and rank match seeding document

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8503202

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Peter6648

UPP: GBM/MCI/5415868

Additional: Surname, three initials, rank and regiment (Household Cavalry/Life Guards) match seeding document

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8503205

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Peter6648

UPP: GBM/WWISD/1002590

Additional: His full name on the record matches his initials on the seeding document. His regiment and rank also match

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

Source information

ID: 8503210

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

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

Connected by: Peter6648

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/90261

Additional: Surname and initials match seeding document, despite no initials in the transcription. CWGC record matches 'Soldiers Died...'

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 8503312

Name: Article 101530

Title: ODNB Article: Carruthers, Pamela Isabel Jameson

Description: Pamela Carruthers was a showjumping champion and course designer. She was born on 11 August 1916 at 19 Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh, the only child of Thomas George Jameson Torrie (1880–1916), a lieutenant-colonel in the Life Guards, and his wife, Esmé Muriel, née Crabbe (1895–1984). Her parents had married in Killin, Perthshire, on 6 September 1915, and her father was killed in action on the western front in November 1916"

Connected by: Peter6648

URL: http://oxforddnb.com/view/article/101530
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Additional: In the current absence of official data this peer reviewed article on his daughter by Susanna Hedenborg in the ODNB provides vital facts

Source information

ID: 8536482

Name: The College Cheltenham 1928

Title: Cheltenham College Register 1841 - 1927

Description: List of students who attended Cheltenham College

Connected by: Beverly42842

Additional: Name, rank, and regiment match

Source information

ID: 9064108

Name: Christopher Andrew (1986)

Reference: Own Copy of Book

Title: Her Majesty's Secret Service

Description: Major T.G.J Torrie of the Lucknow Cavalry ...appointed Commandant of the newly established Intelligence Corps - dated 4th August 1914." (chapter 4).

Connected by: Jonathan101862

Additional: Matches name and military details.

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ID: 9064138

Name: THE LONDON GAZETTE, JANUARY 24, 1899.

Title: The London Gazette

Description: " The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets, from the Royal Military College, to be Second Lieutenants, with a view to their appointment to the Indian Staff Corps. Dated 25th January, 1899 : Thomas George Jameson Torrie."

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27045/page/463/data.pdf
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Additional: Matches full name.

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ID: 9065119

Name: Publication date:23 August 1901

Title: The London Gazette

Description: Second Lieutenants to be Lieutenants. Dated 26th February, 1901. Thomas George Jameson Torrie

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27348/page/5594
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Additional: Matches full name.

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