Lives of the First World War

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ID: 4601100

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=D5726440
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UPP: GBM/MCI/4605476

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 5521616

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Frank10527

UPP: GBC/1901/0024199949

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 5521621

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Frank10527

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/24594/0005/4

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 5521639

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Frank10527

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0524900

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

Source information

ID: 5521662

Title: Panel 9 Vis-en-Artois Memorial

Connected by: Frank10527

URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1749912/WALSH,%20WILLIAM
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Additional: Known as correct

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ID: 5522983

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/B/1893/4/AZ/000585/342

Additional: Birth recorded in baptism register as 1 November 1893

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 5522987

Title: Personal Knowledge of Frank Murphy

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

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

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ID: 7066378

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/1749912/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/936178

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

Source information

ID: 9224593

Title: William Walsh

Description: Photo of William Walsh at an unknown wedding. Date unknown

Connected by: Frank10527

Source information

ID: 9224735

Title: Cenotaph Shaw, Crompton

Description: Commemmorates those from this area who died in the World Wars. It contains the names of the two brothers James Patrick and William Walsh who died in WWII

Connected by: Frank10527

Source information

ID: 9224737

Title: Panel 2, Cenotaph Shaw, Crompton

Description: Shows the names of the brothers James Patrick and William Walsh killed in WWI

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Source information

ID: 9224782

Name: British and Irish Military Databases. The Naval and Military Press Ltd.

Title: William Walsh in the UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919

Description: In 1921 His Majesty's Stationery Office published, on behalf of and by authority of the War Office, two lists of those who died during the Great War. One volume, packed with minute typescript, gave the basic details of nearly 42,000 officer casualties. It required an additional eighty volumes to list all the 'other ranks' who gave their lives. Each of the original volumes represented one or more regiments, corps or other units of the British Army. Most were subdivided into battalions or similar groupings. There were often thirty or more of these per volume, each in alphabetical order.

Connected by: Frank10527

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ID: 9224797

Name: War Diaries; Class: WO 95; Item: 2 Page 243

Title: War diary

Description: William died on 12 October 1918 which is described in the war diary as "one of the most strenuous days in the history of the battalion." The diary records "we lost 11 officers and 269 OR (other ranks).

Connected by: Frank10527

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