Lives of the First World War

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ID: 5386864

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=D6513797
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UPP: GBM/MCI/5392752

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6149284

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Richard13654

UPP: GBM/MCI/5151283

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6149286

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Richard13654

UPP: GBM/MCI/5392751

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6149289

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Richard13654

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/08039/0149/1

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6151109

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

Connected by: Richard13654

UPP: BMD/D/1962/3/AZ/000580/086

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8589004

Title: Her Diary of a nursing sister on the Western Front

Description: diary of a nursing sister on the western front 194-1915. Published anonymously. Free, digital online version.

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URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18910/18910-h/18910-h.htm#I
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Additional: details match

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ID: 8589012

Title: short biography and photos

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URL: http://kateluard.co.uk/about-kate-luard
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ID: 8589014

Title: Kate Luard in uniform

Description: iniform

Connected by: debbie2674

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ID: 8589015

Title: Kate Luard

Connected by: debbie2674

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ID: 8635628

Title: Letters home

Connected by: debbie2674

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ID: 8965606

Name: The London Gazette 31 May 1918 Supplement:30716 Page:6474

Title: The London Gazette

Description: "AWABDED A BAR TO THE ROYAL RED CROSS. Miss Kate Evelyn Luard, R.R.C., Sister-inCharge, Q.A.I.M.N.S. (R.)."

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30716/supplement/6474
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Additional: Matches full name and details.

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ID: 8965609

Reference: gbm_rrcr

Title: Register of the Royal Red Cross, 1883-1994 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBM/RRCR/00000191

Additional: Matches Miss Kate Luard

Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast

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ID: 8965618

Name: Royal British Legion

Title: Letters from the Front Line

Description: Opening Paragraph "ister Kate Luard served as a nurse in the 2nd Boer War, but it was on the Western front where she was to leave her mark. While head nurse at a casualty station during Passchendaele she sent daily letters to her family, recording her extraordinary experiences in stark detail." and "Kate enlisted two days after war was declared, joining the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. She served in France and Belgium until 1918."

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URL: http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/community/stories/remembrance/letters-from-the-front-line-at-passchendaele/
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Additional: Matches Kate Luard of the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve.

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ID: 8965623

Name: Oxfordshire Health Archives NHS

Title: Peppard Sanatorium, Henley on Thames

Description: Matches address and occupation in 1911 Census.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://www.oxfordshirehealtharchives.nhs.uk/hospitals/peppard_sanatorium.htm
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Additional: Matches address and occupation in 1911 Census.

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ID: 9592662

Name: ISBN 978-1-910777-12-1

Title: 'A Touch of paradise in Hell'

Description: Tubby writes an account of their working together and states the fact that she was the only woman 'to come down the line' to reach Talbot House..

Connected by: Sylvia3155

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