Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 4547363

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.

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UPP: GBM/MCI/4551692

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 6645959

Title: Personal Knowledge of Anne Holland

Description: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

Connected by: Anne38050

Additional: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

Source information

ID: 6646452

Title: Henry Vandome

Description: In uniform at home, Bethnal Green

Connected by: Anne38050

Source information

ID: 6646455

Title: Henry Vandome in uniform

Description: Henry Vandome in uniform taken when he was home on leave November 1915

Connected by: Anne38050

Additional: This is my great uncle Henry Vandome, taken by the 'London Portrait Company' and printed on a postcard

Source information

ID: 6646460

Title: certificate 1910

Description: This is a certificate of education from the army council, dated May 1910, when Henry Vandome had joined the Special Reserves

Connected by: Anne38050

Additional: Aged 19, Henry Vandome had lost his job on the railways, so joined the army special reserves.

Source information

ID: 6646464

Title: letter

Description: letter to his brothers, dated 5th August 1914, just as war had been declared

Connected by: Anne38050

Additional: My great uncle was writing from the family home in Bethnal Green to his younger brothers who were away at a camp.

Source information

ID: 6646468

Title: detail from letter

Description: Here is a detail from the letter dated 5th August 1914, where he mentions being ordered to the front and for the family not to worry, 'this war will affect me very little'.

Connected by: Anne38050

Additional: It did affect him - he was killed in action, August 1917

Source information

ID: 6646477

Title: war memorial at Liverpool Street Station

Description: Henry Vandome was working for the Great Eastern Railway when he was killed in August 1917. His name appears on the war memorial at Liverpool Street Station

Connected by: Anne38050

Additional: He was killed in action and is buried at Dickebusch New Military Cemetery Extension, index number B29, Belgium

Source information

ID: 6655341

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Anne38050

UPP: BMD/B/1891/2/AZ/000622/330

Additional: from family tree research I know that Henry Vandome was born 24.2.1891 in Bethnal Green

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 6655344

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Anne38050

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0393894

Additional: From family history collection we have records of his death and burial

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

Source information

ID: 6655346

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Anne38050

UPP: GBM/MCI/5167251

Additional: This record matches known details of Gunner Henry Vandome

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 6655347

Reference: gbm_ramm

Title: Royal Artillery Military Medal awards Transcription

Connected by: Anne38050

UPP: GBM/RAMM/00000985

Additional: These records match with Henry Vandome

Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast

Source information

ID: 6655351

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Anne38050

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/01431/0419/5

Additional: All the details match with family tree research on Henry Vandome

Credit: © The National Archives

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