Lives of the First World War

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ID: 5152406

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=D6279109
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UPP: GBM/MCI/5158110

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7740647

Name: Documents.16722

Title: Documents in IWM Collections

Description: Account of her time as a German censor at the War Office Military Intelligence Headquarters (August 1917) and then as an Intelligence Officer in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps [WAAC] at St Omer, France (September 1917- December 1918), her work decoding intercepted German messages; Gotha air raids; the naivety of new recruits and the hardships and privations of camp life; her involvement in the camp mess and hosting a Christmas party for the local troops (December 1917); watching gassed horses being escorted from the front line (Spring 1918) and observing French refugees arriving in St Omer ahead of the German advance (March 1918); her return to the UK for a period of leave, finding the camp evacuated on her return and subsequent transfer to Etaples (April 1918), where she remained until the end of the war, returning to the UK in December 1918.

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030018648
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Additional: Matches Medal Index Card

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ID: 7740656

Name: Page 523

Title: Mabel's degree at the University of Manchester

Description: University of Manchester: Register of Graduates and Holders of Diplomas and Certificates, 1851-1958

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: http://www.mocavo.com/University-of-Manchester-Register-of-Graduates-and-Holders-of-Diplomas-and-Certificates-1851-1958-Volume-1851-1958/938712/523
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Additional: Matches documents in IWM Collections

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ID: 7740659

Name: Page 279

Title: Register of University of Manchester graduates

Description: The Victoria University of Manchester: Register of Graduates up to July 1st, 1908

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: http://www.mocavo.com/The-Victoria-University-of-Manchester-Register-of-Graduates-up-to-July-1st-1908/250818/279
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Additional: Matches other University record and IWM Documents

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ID: 7740667

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: BMD/B/1879/3/AZ/000429/174

Additional: Matches records from University of Manchester

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 7740668

Reference: 1881gbc

Title: 1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: GBC/1881/0017888605

Additional: Matches Birth record

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 7740671

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: GBC/1891/0019275717

Additional: Matches 1881 census

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 7740673

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/28895/0225/1

Additional: Matches other census records and University of Manchester records

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7740677

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: BMD/D/1938/1/AZ/000818/014

Additional: Matches birth record

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 7740680

Name: England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966

Title: Probate record for Mabel Dymond Peel

Description: Accessed on Ancestry website

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1904/31874_221814-00791/269298?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3frank%3d1%26new%3d1%26MSAV%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gss%3dangs-g%26gsfn%3dmabel%2bdymond%26gsln%3dpeel%26cpxt%3d0%26catBucket%3drs%26uidh%3duh1%26cp%3d0%26pcat%3dROOT_CATEGORY%26h%3d269298%26db%3dUKProbateCal%26indiv%3d1%26ml_rpos%3d7&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord
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Additional: Matches information from census and death record

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ID: 7946227

Title: Mabel wearing her medals on a post-war cocktail dr

Description: This was taken just after the war; we don't know where

Connected by: Sarah62635

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ID: 7946311

Title: Letter of congratulations

Description: Letter sent to Mabel congratulating her for her work on the committee of the Rouen branch of the British Legion, which she helped establish

Connected by: Sarah62635

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ID: 7946316

Title: Ration Book

Description: Ration Book for leave, on ship called 'Umaar' or 'Amaar', issue valid between 10/12/1918 and 20/12/1918

Connected by: Sarah62635

Source information

ID: 7946317

Title: Obituary

Description: Taken from the Welwyn Garden City weekly paper, it describes what is known of Mabel's war service and her post-war work with the British Legion in Rouen. Clear from this that she went back to live in France for 10 years from 1925-35

Connected by: Sarah62635

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ID: 7946318

Title: War medals

Description: Medals given to Mabel for her part in the War - I think the same as she's wearing in the main photograph

Connected by: Sarah62635

Additional: This comes from a family collection and is attributed to Mabel by her brother Harold

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