Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 5110519

Reference: WO372/5

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.

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UPP: GBM/MCI/5115963

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8506371

Title: ICRC Historical Archives

Description: http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en

Connected by: Keith1947

Source information

ID: 8773133

Title: ICRC document PA7487

Description: Captured at Aisne 26 Sept 1914 SWB, "D" Coy 19 Nov 1884 Ogmore Vale Mrs E Court, Bridge St, Ogmore Vale, Wales

Connected by: Keith1947

Source information

ID: 9310845

Title: Missing in France

Description: This is taken from The Brecon & Radnor Express, Thursday 3rd December 1914. 'SOUTH WALES BORDERERS. LOSSES AT TSING-TAU AND IN FRANCE. The following supplementary list of casualties among non-commissioned officers and men of the South Wales Borderers was issued at the Brecon Depot on Saturday [28th November] : ' What is interesting is the particular reference to France. Those men, for whom better documentation exists, were captured near Chivy on 26th September in France. There were other groups of POWs, taken at Poelkapelle/Langemarck and at Gheluvelt on 21 and 31 October respectively, but these locations are in Belgium.

Connected by: Keith1947

Additional: The same list appears in The Times on Monday 30 November 1914, on page 12.