Lives of the First World War

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ID: 4720488

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=D5845915
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UPP: GBM/MCI/4724951

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7262990

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/521905/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/401202

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: 7944032

Name: Roll of Honour Cards

Reference: Harris Library, Preston, Lancashire

Title: Preston Roll of Honour Card

Description: Card filled in by next of kin with details of the serviceman, in order to form the Preston Roll of Honour.

Connected by: Preston43158

Additional: Gives details which would otherwise be found only in a service record, now no longer surviving. Remarks: "He was wounded on Aug. 24th 1918. Gun shot wound in head, and died in no. 10 General Hospital, Rouen. Buried Aug. 31st 1918 at St Sever Cemetery, Rouen."

Source information

ID: 7944059

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Preston43158

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0196054

Additional: Gives surname, forename, place of birth, date of death, place of enlistment, theatre, rank, battalion, regiment, number, how died.

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

Source information

ID: 7944062

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Preston43158

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/31503/0829/2

Additional: Gives surname, forename, age, address, family members, place of birth, relationship to head of household (grandson).

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 7961859

Name: Microfilm no.372

Reference: Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle.

Title: Baptisms solemnised in the Parish of Holy Trinity, Whitehaven.

Description: Gives date of baptism, name of child, names of parents, abode, occupation of father, church in which baptised.

Connected by: Preston43158

Additional: As this baptism took place in the Church of England, it is presumed that Harold Whitson was of the Anglican faith.

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