Lives of the First World War

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ID: 5025337

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=D6151731
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UPP: GBM/MCI/5030767

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7944077

Title: Clare Deacon

Connected by: Peter5151

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ID: 7944079

Title: Clare Deacon

Connected by: Peter5151

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ID: 7944091

Title: Clare Deacon

Connected by: Peter5151

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ID: 7944092

Title: Clare Deacon Biography

Description: Clare Deacon Biography - from the Roll of Honour of Tasmanian Women

Connected by: Peter5151

Additional: http://www.dpac.tas.gov.au/divisions/csrt/programs_and_services/tasmanian_honour_roll_of_women/inductees/2006/clare_deacon2

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ID: 7944095

Title: Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women - Sister Clare Deacon MM

Description: Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women

Connected by: Peter5151

URL: http://www.dpac.tas.gov.au/divisions/csrt/programs_and_services/tasmanian_honour_roll_of_women/inductees/2006/clare_deacon2
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ID: 8614454

Reference: anz_first_au_imp

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

Connected by: Kristen1288

UPP: ANZ/FIRST-AU0IMP/144134

Additional: Details within the service record show that this Clare Deacon won the military medal, and that other details match. The name "Clara" is corrected to "Clare" within the record.

Credit: © The National Archives of Australia

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ID: 9136723

Title: Australian Attestation Paper

Description: Sister Clara Deacon M.M.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

Additional: Downloaded to own computer from Ancestry.co.uk a permitted option

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ID: 9136732

Name: National Archives of Australia

Title: Deacon Clara

Description: Attestation paper showing promotion to Sister and Military Medal.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/records/181769
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Additional: Matches, except at some point the name Clara became Clare.

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ID: 9136743

Name: Barrett J. Carr published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, (MUP), 1981

Title: Deacon, Clare (1891–1952)

Description: Biography

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/deacon-clare-5926
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Additional: Matches name, Military details and years of birth and death.

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ID: 9136750

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

Title: The London Gazette

Description: "AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE Nursing-Sister Clare Deacon, Aust. A.N.S"

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30312/supplement/10038
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Additional: Matches name, the first name in the Gazette is Clare, and matches military details - Australian Imperial Force, Australian Army Nursing Service and rank of Sister.

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ID: 9136756

Name: Museum's Administrative Records

Title: IWM to Ward J.

Description: Regarding Military Medal awarded to: Nursing Sister Clare Deacon, Staff Nurse Jane Derren, Nursing Sister Dorothy Gwendolen Cawood, Nursing Sister Alice Ross-King dated 3rd October 1917.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1020011337
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Additional: What I find confusing is at some point the first name Clara was changed to Clare otherwise it all matches.

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ID: 9136771

Reference: au_aif_embarkation_roll

Title: Australian Imperial Force Embarkation Roll 1914-1918 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: ANZ/AIF/EMBARKATIONROLL/268271

Additional: Matches name and place of birth - also date of enlistment.

Credit: © Australian War Memorial

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ID: 9136816

Name: Australian War Memorial

Title: Nurses under fire

Description: Scroll down "Dorothy Cawood, Mary Jane Derrer and Clare Deacon"

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.awm.gov.au/wartime/50/stewart_nurse
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Additional: Matches Clare Deacon.

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ID: 9136821

Name: RSL Virtual War Memorial

Title: Clare Deacon MM

Description: Biography and details of service.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/explore/people/56011
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Additional: Matches Clare Deacon M.M.

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