Lives of the First World War

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ID: 4945795

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=D6071528
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UPP: GBM/MCI/4950564

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6159373

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Helen3062

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0645372

Additional: Military details and name are identical to the memorial in York Minster details.

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 6159377

Reference: bmd_overseas_deaths_arr1

Title: GRO WAR DEATHS ARMY OTHER RANKS (1914 to1921) Transcription

Connected by: Helen3062

UPP: BMD/OVS/ARR1/000615/053

Additional: Links to other WW1 record - she died on 30 May 1918 and is on the York minster memorial.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 6159380

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Helen3062

UPP: BMD/B/1895/4/AZ/000095/131

Additional: WW1 death record has her born in Ogborne, Wiltshire and this is a village a few miles outside Marlborough.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 6159381

Title: Personal Knowledge of Helen Snelson

Description: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

Connected by: Helen3062

Additional: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

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ID: 6159422

Title: Personal Knowledge of Helen Snelson

Description: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

Connected by: Helen3062

Additional: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

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ID: 6159476

Title: CWGC record for Margaret Caswell

Description: CWGC record

Connected by: Helen3062

URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/78272/CASWELL,%20MARGARET%20SELINA
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Additional: All details match and is on York Minster memorial.

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ID: 6179032

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: WDYTYA24708

UPP: GBC/1901/0012884157

Additional: It connects to the birth and deat records

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 6179037

Title: Photo and facts of Margaret Selina Caswell

Description: On the National Army Museum website

Connected by: WDYTYA24708

URL: http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1998-01-34-3
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Additional: the military details confirm the match

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ID: 6179038

Name: quite a long way down the page

Title: picture of Margaret's grave

Description: photograph of war grave

Connected by: WDYTYA24708

URL: http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=44909
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Additional: military details match as well as the name

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ID: 6179046

Title: Funeral procession of Margaret and her deadd colleagues

Description: picture of the funeral processions and the names

Connected by: WDYTYA24708

URL: http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/E02354/
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Additional: military details match and names match

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ID: 6982250

Title: Commemorative Medallion, Margaret Selina Caswell, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps.

Description: Commemorative Medallion 1914-1918 issued to the next of kin of Margaret Selina Caswell, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, now in the collection of the National Army Museum.

Connected by: Edward43379

URL: http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1998-02-164-2
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ID: 6985376

Name: NAM 1998-01-34-1

Title: Scroll accompanying Commemoration Medallion 1914-1918 for Margaret Selina Caswell

Description: Now in the collection of the National Army Museum.

Connected by: Edward43379

URL: http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1998-01-34-1
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ID: 6985377

Name: NAM 1998-01-34-3

Title: Photograph of Margaret Selina Caswell, Women's Legion, 1916.

Description: Now in the collection of the National Army Museum.

Connected by: Edward43379

URL: http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1998-01-34-3
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ID: 7003160

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/78272/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/4899

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: 7900976

Title: Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps

Description: Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps poster

Connected by: Peter34996

Source information

ID: 8743046

Title: Funeral procession

Description: Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Connected by: debbie2674

Source information

ID: 8773468

Name: Catalogue number EN1/3/DEA/020/15

Title: IWM - Deaths: Other Services

Description: Letter from MJ Caswell, Margaret's mother, to the IWM regarding request for portrait.

Connected by: Kristen1288

URL: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1020011091
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