Lives of the First World War

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ID: 450506

Reference: WO372/3

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=D1436292
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UPP: GBM/MCI/0450868

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7480243

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/877820/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/701791

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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ID: 8451171

Name: Vol. 1 Aug-Dec 1914; The Biographies: pg. 43

Title: The Bond of Sacrifice: David Erskine Boyle

Description: Entry in "The Bond of Sacrifice: a biographical record of all British officers who fell in the Great War".

Connected by: Hannah21187

URL: https://archive.org/stream/bondofsacrificeb01clut#page/42/mode/2up
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ID: 8451172

Title: The Bond of Sacrifice: David Erskine Boyle

Description: As featured in "The Bond of Sacrifice"

Connected by: Hannah21187

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ID: 8451173

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Hannah21187

UPP: GBM/WWISD/1013929

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 8451174

Reference: gbm_bond_of_sac

Title: British Army, Bond of Sacrifice: Officers Died in the Great War 1914-1916 Transcription

Connected by: Hannah21187

UPP: GBM/BONDOFSACRIFICE/181

Credit: © Trustees of the Honourable Artillery Company, London, England

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ID: 8451175

Reference: gbm_derevigny

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

Connected by: Hannah21187

UPP: GBM/DR/7481

Credit: © Naval and Military Press

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ID: 8451176

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Hannah21187

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/06336/0246/5

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8451177

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Hannah21187

UPP: GBC/1891/0035387933

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9078879

Title: Lieutenant David Erskine Boyle

Description: Lieutenant David Erskine Boyle. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. Death: 26 August 1914 Cambrai Western Front. Son of the late Rear-Admiral Robert Hornby Boyle.

Connected by: James201

Additional: From the IWM Bond of Sacrifice Collection - http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205290967

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ID: 9563650

Title: Poems dedicated to and about David, written by his sister Mary E. Boyle (1916)

Description: From Mary Boyle's "Aftermath," dedicated “To David, my brother, killed at Le Cateau, August 26th, 1914.”

Connected by: Connie110407

URL: https://behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2019/02/aftermath.html
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Additional: The names and details match.

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