Lives of the First World War

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ID: 4966147

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=D6092338
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UPP: GBM/MCI/4971374

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6179053

Title: photo and brief description of her grave

Description: photo of grave

Connected by: WDYTYA24710

URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=10777605&PIpi=9414471
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Additional: Her date of death, the burial place and details are the same as on the official website for the cemetery and the military details are the same as the medal index card

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ID: 6179059

Name: Part-way down the page

Title: Photo of her Roll of Honour news article

Connected by: WDYTYA24710

URL: http://www.inmemories.com/Cemeteries/lijssenthoek.htm
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Additional: the persons names match and the military details match to that of the grave

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ID: 6654845

Name: 8 September 1917

Title: Brirish Journal of Nursing

Description: Details of her service and the report of her death following the the bombardment of the hospital at Abbeville by the Germans on August 21st, 1917

Connected by: Paul7983

URL: http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME059-1917/page149-volume59-08thseptember1917.pdf
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Additional: The person's names match.

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ID: 6984812

Title: Portrait photograph of Nellie Spindler

Description: Staff Nurse Nellie Spindler, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. Killed when the Germans bombed a French hospital 21 August 1917.

Connected by: Charlotte33

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ID: 6986197

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: GBM/WWISD/1031562

Additional: Matches other connected records

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 6986201

Title: Photograph of Nellie's grave

Description: Visited in 2013. Photograph taken by Charlotte Czyzyk.

Connected by: Charlotte33

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ID: 6986202

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: BMD/B/1891/3/AZ/000535/115

Additional: Matches article in British Journal of Nursing

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 6986203

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: GBC/1901/0028803501

Additional: Matches birth record and article in the British Journal of Nursing

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 6986205

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/27386/0349/2

Additional: Matches 1901 census

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7049620

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/149546/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/60603

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: 8760849

Name: Matron pays homage to First World War Nurse

Title: Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn

Description: Article about a matron from the hospital visiting Nellie's grave.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

URL: https://qehklmediahub.com/2016/10/04/matron-pays-homage-to-first-world-war-nurse-who-paid-the-ultimate-sacrifice/
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ID: 8948954

Title: Data from Lijssenthoek Cemetery website

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: http://www.lijssenthoek.be/en/adres/2688/-nellie-spindler.html
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Additional: Matches Commonwealth War Graves Commission record

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ID: 8948962

Title: Locations of 44 Casualty Clearing Station

Description: Long long trail website

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/locations-of-british-casualty-clearing-stations/locations-44-casualty-clearing-station/
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Additional: Matches Commonwealth War Graves Commission record

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ID: 8948980

Name: West Yorkshire, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1910

Title: West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1910

Description: Accessed via Ancestry website

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/2252/32355_249107-00402/6549641?backurl=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/36636171/person/19573434418/facts/citation/66406578731/edit/record
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Additional: Matches birth record

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ID: 8949074

Name: ISBN-13: 978-0956182029

Reference: Own copy

Title: Stolen Lives: Individual Tragedies of the Great War by Andrew Hamilton and Alan Reed

Description: STOLEN LIVES is a collection of biographies of soldiers (and a nurse) who were sacrificed for King and Country during the Great War. They are from a wide cross section of society.

Connected by: Charlotte33

Additional: Matches Commonwealth War Graves Commission record

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ID: 8949091

Name: WO 399/7850

Title: Nellie Spindler's Army Nursing record

Description: Accessed via The National Archives website

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C10800708
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Additional: Matches Commonwealth War Graves Commission record

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ID: 8965337

Name: Royal British Legion

Title: Letters from the Front Line

Description: "On 23 August 1917, Sister Nellie Spindler, 26, was killed, a rare event that shocked colleagues"

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/community/stories/remembrance/letters-from-the-front-line-at-passchendaele/
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Additional: Matches name, details and date of death.

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ID: 8985981

Name: Published on Aug 15 2017

Title: Clean White Sheets - song by Harp and a Monkey about Nellie

Description: Song by artist Harp and Monkey inspired by Nellie Spindler's experience and sacrifice

Connected by: Catherine91214

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w-AIXkXr3E
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ID: 9036756

Title: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen 1

Description: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium where Nellie Spindler is honoured and buried.

Connected by: Vincent96527

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ID: 9036757

Title: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen 2

Description: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium where Nellie Spindler is honoured and buried.

Connected by: Vincent96527

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ID: 9036758

Title: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen 3

Description: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium where Nellie Spindler is honoured and buried.

Connected by: Vincent96527

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ID: 9036759

Title: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen 4

Description: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium where Nellie Spindler is honoured and buried.

Connected by: Vincent96527

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ID: 9036760

Title: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen 5

Description: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium where Nellie Spindler is honoured and buried.

Connected by: Vincent96527

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ID: 9235858

Name: Page 134

Title: The British Journal of Nursing - 1st September 1917

Description: Very short article about the death of Miss Nellie Spindler. See Stories section for full transcription.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

URL: http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME059-1917/page134-volume59-01stseptember1917.pdf
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ID: 9249096

Name: CWGC 21 August 2017

Title: CASUALTIES OF PASSCHENDAELE: STAFF NURSE NELLIE SPINDLER

Description: Fairly detailed article with photographs and letter from Sister Kate Luard

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.cwgc.org/learn/news-and-events/news/2017/08/24/10/56/casualties-of-passchendaele-staff-nurse-nellie-spindler
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Additional: Matches and supplements information in the Life Story.

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ID: 9261122

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

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