Lives of the First World War

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ID: 5295967

Reference: WO372/20

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=D6422806
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UPP: GBM/MCI/5301787

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7442146

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/818527/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/647817

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: 8585601

Title: Portrait photograph from press cutting

Description: Lieutenant John West Walker. Unit: 2nd/5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 11 April 1917 Wounded and Missing in Action Western Front. Son of the Rev. Canon Gilbert George Walker and Margaret Walker, of Barkston Rectory, Grantham, Lincs. CWGC has age at death given as 19.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

Source information

ID: 8585603

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Yvonne27542

UPP: GBM/WWISD/1035067

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

Source information

ID: 8585613

Name: Page 8, column 3.

Title: Grantham Journal - 6th April 1918

Description: Short article confirming that Lt. Walker, reported missing the previous year, has now been presumed to have been killed on that date. {See transcription in Stories section.}

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URL: http://search.findmypast.co.uk/bna/viewarticle?id=bl%2f0000400%2f19180406%2f174
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ID: 8585620

Title: Partney Village War Memorial

Description: Biography of Lt. Walker, together with information about his memorials.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

URL: http://www.partneyvillage.co.uk/WW1%20Soldiers/PDFs/WALKER%20John%20West.pdf
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Source information

ID: 9423681

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Michael126217

UPP: BMD/B/1897/2/AZ/000601/113

Credit: © General Register Office

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