Lives of the First World War

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ID: 5016211

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=D6142604
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UPP: GBM/MCI/5021640

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7955591

Title: Taken from the Australian War Memorial, with thanks

Description: Obituary

Connected by: Sue54478

URL: https://www.awm.gov.au/people/P10676555/#biography
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Additional: Rank

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ID: 7955602

Title: Taken from Parramatta City Council, with thanks

Description: http://arc.parracity.nsw.gov.au/blog/2014/12/07/world-war-one-parramatta-dorothy-cawood-first-sydney-nurse-awarded-a-military-medal/

Connected by: Sue54478

Source information

ID: 8614437

Reference: anz_first_au_imp

Title: First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossier Index 1914-1968 Transcription

Connected by: Kristen1288

UPP: ANZ/FIRST-AU0IMP/115969

Credit: © The National Archives of Australia

Source information

ID: 8614439

Reference: au_aif_nominal_roll

Title: Australian Imperial Force Nominal Roll 1914-1918 Transcription

Connected by: Kristen1288

UPP: ANZ/AIF/NOMINALROLL/333666

Credit: © Australian War Memorial

Source information

ID: 8614442

Reference: au_aif_embarkation_roll

Title: Australian Imperial Force Embarkation Roll 1914-1918 Transcription

Connected by: Kristen1288

UPP: ANZ/AIF/EMBARKATIONROLL/268215

Credit: © Australian War Memorial

Source information

ID: 9135670

Name: Australian War Memorial

Title: Great War Nurses

Description: Scroll down to :"Seven AANS nurses, Sisters Dorothy Cawood, Clara Deacon, Mary Jane Derrer, Alice Ross-King, Alicia Kelly, Rachael Pratt, and Pearl Corkhill, were awarded the Military Medal, "for acts of gallantry and devotion to duty under fire" while working in casualty clearing stations in France."

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.awm.gov.au/visit/exhibitions/nurses/ww1
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Additional: Matches first and last names.

Source information

ID: 9135685

Reference: au_nsw_bmd_births

Title: New South Wales Births Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: ANZ/BMD/NSW/B/0001589433

Additional: Matches name and place of birth. Sometimes it takes time to register a birth due to distance to travel to register, weather and other factors.

Credit: © NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages

Source information

ID: 9135705

Name: Jacqueline Abbott first published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, (MUP), 1979

Title: Cawood, Dorothy Gwendolen (1884–1962)

Description: Biography including information about Military Medal.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cawood-dorothy-gwendolen-5537
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Additional: Matches full name and years off birth and death.

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ID: 9136336

Name: Publication date:25 September 1917 Supplement:30312 Page:10038

Title: The London Gazette

Description: "Australian Imperial Force Nursing-Sister Dorothy Gwendoline Cawood, Australian Army Nursing Service

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30312/supplement/10038
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Additional: Matches full name and details of service.

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