Lives of the First World War

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ID: 5100902

Reference: WO372/4

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/5106346

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7530935

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

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/866864

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: 7734720

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Howard41513

UPP: GBC/1891/0009529321

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 7734725

Name: RG13

Title: 1901 Census, Trumpington

Description: Census record for family of C M Chaplin, although he was not there himself

Connected by: Howard41513

URL: http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/7814/CAMRG13_1526_1528-0461/8723470?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3duki1901%26rank%3d1%26new%3d1%26so%3d3%26MSAV%3d1%26gss%3dms_r_db%26gsfn%3darthur%26gsln%3dchaplin%26msbdy%3d1876%26msbpn__ftp%3dLeytonstone%252c%2bEssex%252c%2bEngland%26msbpn%3d1663985%26msbpn_PInfo%3d8-%257c0%257c0%257c3257%257c3251%257c0%257c0%257c0%257c5264%257c1663985%257c0%257c%26dbOnly%3d_F00079A7%257c_F00079A7_x%26dbOnly%3d_F0005DFC%257c_F0005DFC_x%26dbOnly%3d_83004006%257c_83004006_x%26dbOnly%3d_F0005DFB%257c_F0005DFB_x%26dbOnly%3d_F0007AD6%257c_F0007AD6_x%26dbOnly%3d_F0006867%257c_F0006867_x%26dbOnly%3d_F0005C4F%257c_F0005C4F_x%26dbOnly%3d_F0005E11%257c_F0005E11_x%26dbOnly%3d_F0005906%257c_F0005906_x%26uidh%3dpl8&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults
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ID: 8554077

Reference: gbm_can_att

Title: Canadian Expeditonary Force attestations 1914-1918 Transcription

Connected by: Selena49658

UPP: GBM/CAN-ATT/37740

Credit: © Libraries and Archives Canada

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ID: 8554079

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Selena49658

UPP: GBM/WWISD/1039619

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 8866068

Title: Charles Montague Chaplin

Description: Undated negative PC 862.19, J. Palmer Clarke Studios, Post Office Terrace, Cambridge. Negative held in the Cambridgeshire Collection.

Connected by: Howard41513

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ID: 8866069

Title: Charles Montague Chaplin

Description: Undated negative PC 862.18, J. Palmer Clarke Studios, Post Office Terrace, Cambridge. Negative held in the Cambridgeshire Collection.

Connected by: Howard41513

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ID: 8866070

Title: London Gazette 17 July 1917

Description: Promotion from Officer Cadet to 2nd Lieutenant

Connected by: Howard41513

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30187/supplement/7202
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ID: 8877818

Name: BL_0000758_19171016_055_0003.pdf

Reference: British Newspaper Archive

Title: Newspaper report of Lt Charles Chaplin missing

Description: Cambridge Daily News 16 Oct 1917

Connected by: Howard41513

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ID: 8936654

Name: UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, London, September 1922, accessed via Ancestry

Title: UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, London, September 1922

Description: Entry for Charles' widow, Elizabeth J. Chaplin (39) and daughter, Alice A. Chaplin (7 and a half years), who arrived from Canada on 6 September 1922, to stay at Dalreagh, Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Connected by: Wendy54828

URL: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/1518/30807_A000721-00010?pid=19037911&backurl=http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc%3DoQh317%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26gss%3Dangs-c%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26msT%3D1%26gsfn%3Delizabeth%2520joan%26gsfn_x%3DNP_NN_NIC%26gsln%3Dchaplin%26gsln_x%3D1%26cpxt%3D1%26cp%3D11%26MSAV%3D1%26MSV%3D0%26uidh%3D223%26pcat%3D40%26h%3D19037911%26dbid%3D1518%26indiv%3D1%26ml_rpos%3D1&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=oQh317&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true
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ID: 8937276

Title: Charles Montague Chaplin, Memorial, Trumpington

Description: Photograph of a memorial to Charles Montague Chaplin, who died on 26 September 1917, included on the headstone of his parents, Alice Mary and Arthur Edward Chaplin and his sister, Alice Caroline Chaplin. To the left of the photograph is the headstone and grave of his brother, Arthur Hugh Bales Chaplin at Trumpington Churchyard Extension. The churchyard extension is located at the junction of Hauxton Road and Shelford Road, Trumpington. Photograph: 15 June 2017.

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ID: 8937278

Title: Charles Montague Chaplin, Memorial, Trumpington

Description: Photograph of a memorial to Charles Montague Chaplin, who died on 26 September 1917, included on the headstone of his parents, Alice Mary and Arthur Edward Chaplin and his sister, Alice Caroline Chaplin, at Trumpington Churchyard Extension. The churchyard extension is located at the junction of Hauxton Road and Shelford Road, Trumpington. Photograph: 15 June 2017.

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