Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 4705259

Reference: WO372/21

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=D5830676
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UPP: GBM/MCI/4709712

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6189421

Title: Personal Knowledge of Maureen West

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

Connected by: Maureen15515

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

Source information

ID: 6189424

Name: 1894, Dec, Oundle, 3b/205

Reference: Copy obtained from the GRO

Title: Copy of Birth Certificate of Wilfred Scrimshaw West

Description: Copy of Birth Certificate of Wilfred Scrimshaw West obtained in the 1980s

Connected by: Maureen15515

Additional: The person's age, family details and place of birth match.

Source information

ID: 6189431

Name: GRO War Deaths Army Other Ranks (1914-1921), 1914/G.1/541

Reference: Copy from GRO

Title: Copy of Death Certificate Scrimshaw W West

Description: Copy of certificate obtained in the 1980s

Connected by: Maureen15515

Additional: This document matches on name, regimental number, place, date of death

Source information

ID: 7484963

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/1563823/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/806678

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: 9013496

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Deborah102878

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0479704

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

Source information

ID: 9013498

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Deborah102878

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/08652/0127/4

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 9013500

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Deborah102878

UPP: GBC/1901/0011954514

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9409137

Title: Wilfred Scrimshaw West

Description: L-Cpl, 1st Battn, Coldsream Guards

Connected by: Christine147926

Source information

ID: 9411255

Title: Wilfred Scrimshaw West

Description: In uniform of the Coldstream Guards

Connected by: Christine147926

Additional: This is my Great Uncle, Wilfred Scrimshaw West. Photo from a West family album, Yarwell ,Northamptonshire. UK

Source information

ID: 9411258

Title: Entry in the Roll of Honour

Description: Entry in the Roll of Honour.

Connected by: Christine147926

Additional: The Roll of Honour containing the above entry on Wilfred Scrimshaw West is owned by the West family of Yarwell, Northamptonshire UK. A story, passed on in the family, is that Wilfred’s parents did not want him to enlist but that he climbed out of a bedroom window and went anyway.

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