Lives of the First World War

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ID: 4946881

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.

UPP: GBM/MCI/4951682

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8702357

Title: 'Heavy casualties. Wounded, wounded, wounded': stories of the battle of the Somme

Description: 1 July 2016, The Guardian. Features Cockburn.

Connected by: Edward43379

URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/01/heavy-casualties-wounded-wounded-wounded-readers-stories-of-the-battle-of-the-somme
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ID: 8702409

Title: Cockburn

Description: From https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/01/heavy-casualties-wounded-wounded-wounded-readers-stories-of-the-battle-of-the-somme

Connected by: Edward43379

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ID: 8953749

Name: Grand daughter Sheila Brownlee in the Guardian 10/11/2014

Title: Women during WW1

Description: Third reader's story with notes from British military nurse historian Sue Light The title Ruby Chapman is Nursing Sister Ruby Cockburn's married name.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/guardianwitness-blog/2014/nov/10/-sp-women-first-world-war-readers-stories-photos-memories
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Additional: The title Ruby Chapman is Nursing Sister Ruby Cockburn's married name.

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ID: 8953750

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2005 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: BMD/M/1919/3/AZ/000282/040

Additional: Matches information in the Guardian that Ruby Cockburn married Philip Chapman in 1919

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8953754

Name: British Red Cross

Title: Miss Ruby Cockburn

Description: Personnel File for Miss Ruby Cockburn "previous engagement No. 13 G.H Malassiese Hosp, St Omer; No. 2 Rouen; No 5 Wimereux; No.16 A Train; No 8 Le Touquet; No 8 Boulogne; Californie from Cannes"

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://www.redcross.org.uk/About-us/Who-we-are/History-and-origin/First-World-War/Card?fname=Ruby&sname=Cockburn&id=44553&first=true
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Additional: Matches name and information from the Guardian that she served on an ambulance train.

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ID: 8953755

Reference: gbm_british_red_cross_reg1914_18

Title: British Red Cross Register of Overseas Volunteers 1914-1918 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBM/REDCRO/1755

Additional: Matches Nursing Sister Ruby Cockburn and service with the Red Cross at Boulogne

Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast

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ID: 8953756

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: BMD/B/1884/4/AZ/000114/350

Additional: First apparent match for name Ruby Cockburn and year of birth 1884

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8958314

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: BMD/D/1966/3/AZ/000143/058

Additional: Matches married name Ruby Chapman and information from the Guardian - previously connected - that " She died in the late 1960s surrounded by family in Bournemouth."

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8958325

Reference: gbm_rrcr

Title: Register of the Royal Red Cross, 1883-1994 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBM/RRCR/00002681

Additional: Matches name and details of Ruby Cockburn

Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast

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ID: 8958360

Name: The British Journal of Nursing August 3, 1918 page 78

Title: THE ROYAL RED CROSS,

Description: British Red Cross Society Sister Ruby Cockburn

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME061-1918/page078-volume61-03rdaugust1918.pdf
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Additional: Matches name and details

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