Lives of the First World War

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ID: 4944596

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=D6070297
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UPP: GBM/MCI/4949333

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8647150

Title: Portrait photograph of Miss Meta Burgiss

Description: Object description: Miss Meta Burgiss, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died on active service 31 January 1919. Inscription: Meta Burgiss who died on active service, 31.1.19.

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ID: 9240563

Name: 75452002; Nurse Meta Burgess

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Description: Meta was one of the casualties added to the CWGC WW1 War Dead Roll on 5th August 2015.

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URL: https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/75452002/burgess,-meta/
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ID: 9261240

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

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Additional: Image © 2018 Nursing Memorial Appeal, kindly made available for use on Lives of the First World War.

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ID: 9314229

Title: In From the Cold Project

Description: The In From the Cold Project (IFCP) was formed to research and identify all service men and women missing from the official Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) list of casualties from the First and Second World Wars, in order to get these soldiers, sailors and airmen their due recognition. This person is one of the cases submitted by IFCP and accepted for commemoration by CWGC. Further information can be found by searching the Casualties In From The Cold list on the IFCP web site.

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URL: http://www.infromthecold.org/
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