Lives of the First World War

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ID: 4940176

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=D6065752
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UPP: GBM/MCI/4944788

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7200447

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/340344/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/250830

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

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ID: 8989705

Title: Probate Record

Description: Astell, Ethel Frances of the 3rd Northern General Hospital Sheffield spinster died 17th December 1917 at Salonica Greece.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

Additional: Obtained from Ancestry.co.uk

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ID: 8989709

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: BMD/B/1878/3/AZ/000018/156

Additional: Matches names in the order on the Probate record and matches year of birth.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8989712

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/27867/0023/20

Additional: Matches full name in the Probate Record - "Astell, Ethel Frances of the 3rd Northern General Hospital Sheffield." - also matches place and occupation Hospital Nurse.

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8989715

Name: Wikipedia

Title: Sheffield Royal Hospital

Description: "The Hospital covered most of the block bounded to the north by West Street," The Hospital is now gone, demolished in 1981, except "for the former Mount Zion Chapel, the facade of which survives."

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_Royal_Hospital
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Additional: Matches address in the 1911 Census.

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ID: 8989724

Name: Sheffield Soldiers of the Great War

Title: Local Hospitals during WW1

Description: 3rd Northern General Hospital.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://www.sheffieldsoldierww1.co.uk/Hospital/
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Additional: Matches probate record

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ID: 8989725

Name: Nursing Memorial Appeal

Title: Nursing Memorial Appeal

Description: "Sister, TFNS Frances Ethel Astell 38 17 December 1917!

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URL: http://www.nursingmemorialappeal.org.uk/the-nurses.html
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Additional: Matches name, date of death and details of service.

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ID: 8989726

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBM/WWISD/1041363

Additional: Matches first name and surname, date of death and details of service

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 8989729

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBC/1891/0015458200

Additional: First name here is Ethel and the second initial F - matches surname, name of Father and county of birth.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8989740

Reference: 1881gbc

Title: 1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBC/1881/0012759713

Additional: Main matching evidence is the name of the Mother - Martha J Astell. Surname and county of birth also matches, though the first name here is Esther and the middle initial F.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8989749

Name: June Barnes Geni added February 17, 2017

Title: Sister Frances Ethel Astell

Description: Family History information.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.geni.com/people/Sister-Frances/6000000054558611823
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Additional: Matches information in the Life Story.

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ID: 8989758

Name: Page 254

Title: The Cross of Sacrifice

Description: The Cross of Sacrifice: Officers Who Died in the Service of British, Indian and East African Regiments and Corps, 1914-1919 S. D. & D. B. Jarvis "Astell Frances Ethel Sister died 17-2-17 TFNS "

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6IK-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PP17&lpg=PP17&dq=ethel+frances+astell&source=bl&ots=0WIlDM9w1U&sig=NhM5517oMG2aiu3WbVr7c1rFV3c&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjks7q69OfVAhVaOMAKHWELC9IQ6AEIKzAB#v=onepage&q=ethel%20frances%20astell&f=false
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Additional: Matches though there appears to be an error in the exact date of death - possibly because of proof reading.

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ID: 9261273

Title: Nurses memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum

Description: A Memorial to Voluntary Aid Detachment and Professional Nurses who lost their lives in the 1st and 2nd World Wars, at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire, dedicated and unveiled on 4th June 2018 at an event attended by HRH The Countess of Wessex GCVO, Royal Patron of the Nursing Memorial Appeal. The memorial takes the form of hands cast in bronze holding a globe carrying the names of nurses who lost their lives in service in the two World Wars. Further information about the memorial can be found on the Nursing Memorial Appeal website at www.nursingmemorialappeal.org.uk

Connected by: James201