Lives of the First World War

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ID: 5188460

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.

URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D6315241
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UPP: GBM/MCI/5194242

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6658029

Name: Publication date: 24 November 1914, Supplement: 28985, Page: 9958

Title: Victoria Cross citation, the London Gazette

Description: London Gazette website

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28985/supplement/9957
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ID: 6658031

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission record

Description: CWGC website

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/103600/JOHNSTON,%20WILLIAM%20HENRY
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ID: 6658034

Reference: wwisd

Title: Soldiers died in the Great War 1914-1919 Transcription

Connected by: Charlotte33

UPP: GBM/WWISD/1006270

Additional: Matches Commonwealth War Graves Commission record

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 6658298

Title: Page on William Henry Johnston

Description: Memorials to Valour website

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: http://memorialstovalour.co.uk/vc540.html
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ID: 6658315

Title: Portriat photograph of William Henry Johnston

Description: Head portrait press cutting. Major William Henry Johnston VC. Unit: Brigade Major, 15th Infantry Brigade, Royal Engineers. Death: 08 June 1915 Ypres, Western Front. CWGC family information: Son of Mary Johnston, of 36, Cathcart Rd., South Kensington, London, and the late Maj. William Johnston.

Connected by: Charlotte33

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ID: 7049068

Reference: CWGCCASUALIWM

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records

Description: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) commemorate First World War servicemen and women and members of some civilian organisations who died before 31 August 1921 while in Commonwealth military service or of causes attributable to service.

Connected by: Imperial1

URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/103600/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/27596

Additional: This record has been automatically matched to the Life Story by IWM, using rules based on name, rank, number, regiment and service.

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 9067679

Title: War diary entry about his death

Description: Killed at 7:30 PM by a machine gun. Buried the next day at 6:30 PM at Frezenberg Chateau. This says he was killed 7/6- this website says 8/6.

Connected by: Edwin110085

Source information

ID: 9067740

Title: Another war diary entry about his death

Description: Killed between trenches 48 + 49.

Connected by: Edwin110085

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