Lives of the First World War

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ID: 4939700

Reference: WO372/23

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=D6065273
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UPP: GBM/MCI/4944309

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7649233

Title: Wikipedia entry

Description: Brief life story

Connected by: Sue54478

URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_Garrett_Anderson
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Additional: Surname and other names match

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ID: 7649235

Title: Louisa Garrett Anderson

Description: Taken from the Wikipedia entry

Connected by: Sue54478

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ID: 7649249

Title: Site of Endell Street Military Hospital

Description: Plaque to mark the site of Endell Street Military Hospital 1915-1919. Established in former workhouse buildings during the First World War under the command of Dr Flora Murray & Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson, the 573-bed hospital is the only British army hospital to have been staffed entirely by women. More than 24,000 soldiers were treated here.

Connected by: Sue54478

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ID: 8545021

Name: Article 62050 by Jennian Geddes

Title: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Louisa Garrett Anderson

Description: Biography of Louisa Garrett Anderson giving full details of her WW1 service in Paris and Wimereux and then at the Endell Street Military Hospital in London with pay graded as a Major.

Connected by: Peter6648

URL: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/62050
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Additional: Name matches seeding document

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ID: 8545026

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Peter6648

UPP: BMD/B/1873/3/AZ/000011/183

Additional: Full name, year and place of birth match the information in the new article in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biogrpahy

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8545031

Reference: 1881gbc

Title: 1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Peter6648

UPP: GBC/1881/0000736180

Additional: Her own name and details and her parents' names and details match the article in the ODNB

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8545039

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Peter6648

UPP: GBC/1891/0034888141

Additional: Matches the information in the ODNB article that she attended St Leonard's School in St Andrews, where she decided to study medicine from her second term

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8545063

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

Connected by: Peter6648

UPP: BMD/D/1943/4/AZ/000017/141

Additional: Date and place of death matches the information in the ODNB article

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9061253

Name: Wikipedia

Title: Endell Street Military Hospital

Description: "The hospital was established during the First World War in May 1915 by Doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson."

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endell_Street_Military_Hospital#1918_Flu_Pandemic
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Additional: Matches full name and places where Doctor and Chief Surgeon Louisa Garrett Anderson served.