Lives of the First World War

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ID: 4535970

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=D5661216
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UPP: GBM/MCI/4540252

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7442447

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/817665/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/646969

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: 8476848

Title: 2nd Lt. B.C.L.Umney, Royal Fusiliers

Description: A 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers and killed in action on the 23rd July, 1916 in Delville Wood on the Somme. with no known grave, Basil is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing.

Connected by: James56261

Source information

ID: 8477257

Title: Thiepval Memorial to the Missing

Description: Basil's sacrifice is recorded on the panels of the Thiepval Memprial to the Missing on the Somme. His name can be found on Pier and face 9A.

Connected by: James56261

Additional: This photograph is part of a family collection.

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ID: 8477263

Title: Close-up of Pier and Face 9A.

Description: This close-up photograph shows Basil's name on Pier and Face 9A of the Thiepval memorial to the Missing on the Somme.

Connected by: James56261

Additional: This photograph is part of a family collection.

Source information

ID: 8477268

Title: Basil's birth certificate.

Description: This image of Basil's birth certificate was obtained whilst researching his military service at the National Archives at Kew, London.

Connected by: James56261

Additional: Courtesy of the National Archives, Kew, London.

Source information

ID: 8477269

Title: Basil's death certificate.

Description: This image of Basil's death certificate was obtained whilst researching his military service at the National Archives at Kew, London.

Connected by: James56261

Additional: Courtesy of the National Archives, Kew, London.

Source information

ID: 8477273

Title: Post Office Telegram (O.H.M.S.)

Description: This image of this Post Office Telegram (O.H.M.S.) received by Basil's father, Percy, reporting his death was obtained whilst researching his military service at the National Archives at Kew, London.

Connected by: James56261

Additional: Courtesy of the National Archives, Kew, London.

Source information

ID: 8667986

Title: Basil's British Army Medal Record Index Card

Description: Arrived in France 28th April 1916; awarded British War and Victory medals; his father, Percy Umney, lived at 3, The Terrace, Richmond, Surrey.

Connected by: James56261

Source information

ID: 8729290

Title: War memorial featuring him

Description: Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey

Connected by: Edward43379

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