Lives of the First World War

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ID: 5147878

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.

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UPP: GBM/MCI/5153478

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 5487351

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/03233/0245/3

Additional: This information corresponds with details that Annie herself provided in an interview with IWM recorded in 1973.

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ID: 5487390

Name: Martin, Annie May - Catalogue Number 42

Title: IWM interview with Annie May Martin, 1973

Description: REEL 1 Aspects of life in Britain, pre-1914. Aspects of joining Women's Army Auxiliary Corps: reasons for joining WAAC; lack of training; accommodation; relations between ranks. Recollections of period with WAAC, France, 1917-1919: duties as wireless telegraphist; living conditions. REEL 2 Continues: uniform; food rations; relations with local population; communicating with home front; knowledge of war's progress; attitude towards the Germans; casualties; relations between Allies. REEL 3 Continues: opinion of US Army; Armistice; hostility of British public towards former WAACs; contribution of women to war effort; social life in France; telegraphists' duties.

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80000042
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Additional: Matches information on Medal Index Card

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ID: 5487683

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: GBC/1891/0004818840

Additional: Matches information from 1911 census

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 5487687

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: BMD/B/1890/3/AZ/000368/214

Additional: Matches 1891 and 1911 Census

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 5491216

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Melanie24

UPP: GBC/1901/0003891042

Additional: Although she appears here as 'Nannie M' rather than 'Annie' all the other details including address, names, ages and birthplaces all match with her family as seen on the 1891 and 1911 census.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 5491308

Name: The British Journal of Nursing - 26 Jan 1918. Pg 66-67

Title: The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps - Les Tommets

Description: Report by Mrs Lancelot Andrews, Contoller of Recruiting for WAAC describing the formation, organisation and work of the WAAC.

Connected by: Melanie24

URL: http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME060-1918/page066-volume60-26thjanuary1918.pdf
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Additional: Explains the basis on which Annie served in the WAAC and refers briefly to the improtance of the work of the telegraphists.

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ID: 5491317

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

Connected by: Melanie24

UPP: BMD/D/1981/4/AZ/000763/022

Additional: The date of birth given matches that on the WAAC service record.

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ID: 5491537

Name: WO 398/144/17

Title: WAAC service record for Annie Martin

Description: Women's Army Auxiliary Corp Service record for Annie May Martin

Connected by: Melanie24

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Additional: The details all match with the informatio supplied in her oral history interview with IWM in 1973.

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ID: 7901889

Title: Women's Army Auxiliary Corps

Description: Women's Army Auxiliary Corps poster

Connected by: Peter34996

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