Lives of the First World War

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ID: 5172909

Reference: WO372/24

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/5178682

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6967916

Name: 7th January 1919, pg. 312

Title: London Gazette, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Edgar Carnegie Anstey

Description: Awarded Croix de Guerre, Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Edgar Carnegie Anstey, Royal Artillery https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31109/supplement/312/data.pdf

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31109/supplement/312/data.pdf
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Additional: Names and military details match (Regiment, rank and initials).

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ID: 6967927

Name: London Gazette, 1 January 1901, issue: 27262, page: 4

Title: London Gazette, Second Lieutenant Edgar Carnegie Anstey

Description: London Gazette article Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery. The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets from the Royal Military Academy to be Second Lieutenants. Dated 21st December, 1900.

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27262/page/4
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Additional: Names match exactly. Earlier career in Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery.

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ID: 6967935

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

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UPP: GBM/MCI/0646817

Additional: Names match. Military details consistent.

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6967936

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/B/1882/3/AZ/000013/219

Additional: Names match exactly (unusual name, only Edgar Carnegie Anstey registered in UK).

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 6967938

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/D/1958/4/AZ/000020/027

Additional: Names match exactly (unusual name). Age consistent with previous records.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 6984081

Name: ISBN 978 184415 889 8, pg. 281

Reference: Google Books.

Title: "The Killing Ground" by Tim Travers

Description: Appendix II: Biographies of senior officers. ANSTEY, Edgar Carnegie (Brigadier General). Born 1882. Educated Wellington College, Woolwich. Commissioned in RA in 1900. Attended Staff College 1914. Brigade Major in Dardanelles. First World War, GSO1 in France. 1920-2 Chief Staff Officer to armaments Sub-Commission. Instructor, Senior Officers School, Belagum, India 1925-8. Brigadier, RA, Western Command, India 1931-2. Brigadier, General Staff, Western Command, India, 1932-5. Retired pay 1935. Military correspondent Daily Sketch and Sunday Times 1942-4. Died 1958.

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ID: 6984093

Name: Publication date:1 June 1917, Supplement:30111, Page:5464

Title: London Gazette 4 Jun 1917, Appointment to Brevet Lieutenant Colonel

Description: 4th June 1917 His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to approve of the undermentioned rewards for distinguished service in the Field, dated 3rd June 1917. TO BE BREVET LIEUTENANT-COLONELS Maj. (temp. Lt.-Col.) E.C. Anstey, R.A.

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30111/supplement/5464
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ID: 6984098

Name: Publication date:26 July 1918, Supplement:30819, Page:8987

Title: London Gazette, 30 July 1918

Description: War Office 30th July, 1918 REGULAR FORCES COMMANDS AND STAFF. The undermentioned appointments are made:- GENERAL STAFF G.S.O.s 1st Grade - Bt. Lt.-Col. E.C. Anstey, R.A. 17th Sept. 1917,

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30819/supplement/8987
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ID: 6984116

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Hannah21187

UPP: GBM/MCI/5178678

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6984117

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Hannah21187

UPP: GBM/MCI/5178676

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6984118

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Hannah21187

UPP: GBM/MCI/5178677

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6984119

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Hannah21187

UPP: GBM/MCI/5178679

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6984120

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Hannah21187

UPP: GBM/MCI/5178680

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6984123

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

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UPP: GBM/MCI/5178681

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6986985

Title: Hazelwood School: Edgar Carnegie Anstey

Description: Brief biography of Edgar Carnegie Anstey.

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URL: http://www.hambo.org/hazelwood/view_man.php?id=117
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ID: 6986986

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/M/1922/4/AZ/000020/096

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 6986987

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/M/1951/1/AZ/000029/074

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 6987001

Title: British Generalship on the Western Front in the First World War, 1914-1918

Description: Anstey, Brigadier Edgar Carnegie (1882-1958) Wellington and R.M.A. Entered Royal Artilley, 1900; p.s.c.; West African Frontier Force, 1907-10; Brigade-Major, R.A., 1st Division, 1914-15, and 29th Division, M.E.F., 1915; G.S.O.3, G.H.Q., M.E.F., G.S.O.2, G.H.Q., M.E.F., 1915-16; G.S.O.2, G.H.Q., France, 1916-17; G.S.O.l, G.H.Q., 1917; G.S.O.1, 50th Division, 1917-18; B.G.S., Western Command, India, 1932-35; retired, 1935; G.S.O.2, Historical Section, War Cabinet, 1940-42. Military Correspondent, Sunday Times and Daily Sketch, 1942-44, and Daily Despatch and Sunday Chronicle, 1944-45, and author of (1936), The Mystery of the Blue Inns (1937), and Peace in Our Time (1945)

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URL: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/2933031/DX223287.pdf
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ID: 6988398

Title: Who Was Who: Edgar Carnegie Anstey

Description: ‘ANSTEY, Brig. Edgar Carnegie’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 , accessed 13 Oct 2014

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URL: http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U234098
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ID: 6989143

Name: Surrey Mirror, 09 April 1943

Title: Surrey Mirror, "At the Crossroads", 09 April 1943

Description: Local news re the publication of "Love Poems of a Young Man".

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Additional: Publication of this volume mentioned in biographies attached to life story.

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ID: 6989146

Name: Dundee Courier, 23 June 1928

Title: Dundee Courier: "The Buddon Shell Tragedy", 23 June 1928

Description: Newspaper article re a military accident that killed two soldiers...."A shell had fallen short and burst in the midst of the observation party. The injured - Colonel Edgar C. Anstey, L.-Bombardier Thomas Vick (both of the 8th Battery), Major Robert Freelands, gunnery instructor, and Lieut. W. R. Martyr, Royal Scots Greys - are all progressing favourably.

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ID: 7621168

Name: pg. 579 and pg. 607 (accessible via GoogleBooks).

Title: The Monthly Army List for August 1914 - Vol 1

Description: pg. 579 Royal Regiment of Artillery Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery. Captains. Anstey, E.C., p.s.c. 10 May 13 [passed staff college] pg. 607 Royal Field Artillery XXXVI.-Ewshott, Farnham. 15th Battery. Capt. Anstey, E.C. p.s.c.

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URL: http://books.google.com.sg/books?id=ImW-BAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=Anstey&f=false
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ID: 7621177

Name: Lichfield Mercury, 12 August 1932

Title: Lichfield Mercury, "Social and Personal", 12 August 1932

Description: Newspaper article re appointment to Brigadier-General.

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ID: 8537951

Title: photo in of Capt Anstey in civilian clothes

Description: newspaper cutting with named photos, from papers of member of 36th Brigade RFA August 1914

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ID: 8537986

Name: WO 95/1325/1

Title: War Diary 15th Battery within 36th Brigade RFA diary

Description: unit war diary in NA

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URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14016732
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ID: 8586397

Name: The Times, 31st Mar 1916, pg. 26

Title: The Times, "French Decorations", 31st Mar 1916

Description: Newspaper article re award of Croix de Chevalier

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