Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 517390

Reference: WO372/3

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=D1503223
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UPP: GBM/MCI/0517799

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9257241

Name: ISBN 978-1-8621812-6-7

Reference: Huddersfield Central Library, Holmfirth Library

Title: Huddersfield’s Roll of Honour: 1914-1922

Description: A book detailing the 3,439 servicemen of Huddersfield and district who gave their lives during the First World War

Connected by: Holmfirth126389

Source information

ID: 9257242

Name: Local Newspaper

Reference: Huddersfield Central Library, Holmfirth Library

Title: Holmfirth Express 4 August 1917

Description: Article reporting that Irving Brook is a PoW

Connected by: Holmfirth126389

Source information

ID: 9257245

Name: Local Newspaper

Reference: Huddersfield Central Library, Holmfirth Library

Title: Holmfirth Express 19 May 1917

Description: Article reporting Irving Brook missing and wounded

Connected by: Holmfirth126389

Source information

ID: 9257247

Name: Local Newspaper

Reference: Huddersfield Central Library, Holmfirth Library

Title: Holmfirth Express 29 June 1918

Description: rticle reporting the death of Irving Brook

Connected by: Holmfirth126389

Source information

ID: 9257248

Name: Irving Brook

Title: Ancestry UK

Description: A subscription genealogical website

Connected by: Holmfirth126389

URL: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
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Source information

ID: 9257251

Title: Irving Brook

Description: Extract from article in Holmfirth Express 29 June 1918

Connected by: Holmfirth126389

Source information

ID: 9257255

Title: Irving Brook gravestone

Description: Photo of gravestone in the burial ground of Lydgate Chapel, New Mill, West Yorkshire taken by Vivien Aizlewood

Connected by: Holmfirth126389

Source information

ID: 9277760

Title: Irving Brook

Description: Detail of photo in Holmfirth Express 29 June 1918

Connected by: Holmfirth126389

Source information

ID: 9485732

Title: Irving Brook

Description: Detail of photo in Holmfirth Express 29 June 1918

Connected by: Holmfirth126389

Source information

ID: 9533758

Title: Irving Brook's Shaving Mirror

Description: Photo of Irvin's nickel silver shaving mirror and case kept in his breast pocket showing the mark made by the bullet which ricocheted into his jaw, still in possession of the family

Connected by: Holmfirth126389

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