Lives of the First World War

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ID: 4868970

Reference: WO372/22

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=D5994479
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UPP: GBM/MCI/4873515

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7409473

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.

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URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/775093/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/606232

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Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 9401828

Title: Private George Woods. Suffolk Regt. 18574

Description: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty Records Transcription for Pte.George Woods. Killed in Action, France 10 May 1917

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ID: 9401868

Title: \Pte. George Woods. Suffolk Regiment 18574

Description: British Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-19. My Heritage Research Record. Pte George Woods 2nd Btn. Suffolk Regiment killed in action May 10 1917

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ID: 9402035

Title: Private George Woods. Suffolk Regiment 18574

Description: 1911 England & Wales Census - My Heritage research recording John and Emma as parents of George age 8 and his siblings living in their cottage in Front Street. Mendlesham. George was known amongst his friends as "Tubby" Woods. See letter written by Private Spencer Colchester to his mother from the "Front" after the battle in front of Monchy 10 May 1917 where "poor Tubby Woods died".

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ID: 9402136

Title: Private George Woods. Suffolk Regiment 18574

Description: England and Wales Census1911 - My Heritage Research, recording George age 18, living with his parents John and Emma Woods and his siblings at an address in Front Street, Mendlesham. George was known amongst his friends as "Tubby" Woods. See letter written by Private Spencer Colchester from the "Front" to his mother in which he mentions the battle that took place in front of Monchy where "poor Tubby Woods" died 10 May 1917.

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ID: 9402227

Title: Private George Woods. Suffolk Regiment 18574

Description: England and Wales Census 1901 - My Heritage research recording details of John Woods and his wife Emma. Their son George Woods age 8 and his siblings.

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ID: 9402326

Title: Private George Woods. Suffolk Regiment 18574

Description: My Heritage Research. The Woods family details are similar to those in the 1901Census. In my Barfoot Family Tree I have connection through my maternal Grandmother and Great Grandmother with George Woods, his parents John and Emma and his siblings. Their birth dates and further details are provided including the birth of George recorded circa1893.

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ID: 9402611

Title: Pte George Woods 18574 2nd Btn. Suffolk Regtiment.

Description: Copy of a letter from Pte Spencer Colchester 43713 2nd Btn. Suffolk Regiment (my father-in-law) written from the BEF Western Front to his mother and family which includes description of many men lost in the battle to take Guemappe and in the line in front of Monchy. "Poor Tubby Woods was killed here". Spencer Colchester and Tubby Woods both lived in the parish of Mendlesham and would have known each other from early school days and sharing in village activities.

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ID: 9402655

Title: Pte George Woods 18574 2nd Btn. Suffolk Regtiment.

Description: Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Arras Memorial. Private George Woods 18574 is remembered on the Arras War Memorial Bay 4. Pas de Calais, France. Death date 10 May 1917

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ID: 9402819

Title: Pte George Woods 18574 2nd Btn. Suffolk Regtiment.

Description: George Allan Woods, 2nd Suffolks is commemorated on the First World War Memorial in Mendlesham Parish Church of St. Mary's in Suffolk. With the Inscription I "Built and Erected by the Church People of Mendlesham in lasting memory of the following who fell in the Great War 1914-1919". There are 24 names recorded on the Memorial. Research into George's second name recorded as Allan on the Memorial has been unsuccessful with no evidence found but it may have been included on the Memorial by special request of his family.

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