Lives of the First World War

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ID: 5387426

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=D6514359
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UPP: GBM/MCI/5393314

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7647671

Title: australian dictionary of biography

Connected by: debbie2674

URL: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mccarthy-dame-emma-maud-7306
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Additional: all match

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ID: 7647683

Title: pastel

Description: Patel painting

Connected by: debbie2674

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ID: 7647685

Title: photo

Description: photo of Dame McCarthy

Connected by: debbie2674

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ID: 8560214

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Kristen1288

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/00118/0239/2

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8560215

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Kristen1288

UPP: GBM/MCI/5151642

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8560216

Title: Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps

Description: Information about the QARANC The Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps

Connected by: Kristen1288

URL: http://qaranc.co.uk/
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ID: 8560217

Title: Australian War Memorial - Dame Emma Maud McCarthy

Description: Studio portrait of Dame Emma Maud McCarthy GBE RRC.

Connected by: Kristen1288

URL: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P09900.003
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ID: 8560218

Title: Dame Emma Maud McCarthy

Description: Studio portrait of Dame Emma Maud McCarthy GBE RRC from the Australian War Memorial website.

Connected by: Kristen1288

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ID: 8560221

Name: Art.IWM ART 3204

Title: Imperial War Museum - Dame McCarthy portrait

Description: IWM: "a half length portrait of Dame Maud McCarthy, wearing her distinctive grey and red QAIMNS uniform and sitting at a desk. On the desk in front of her is a vase of roses, a wooden letter rack, two bottles of ink and a bust of an injured male patient with his arm in a sling."

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URL: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/25079
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ID: 8560224

Title: Dame McCarthy, IWM collection

Description: Art.IWM ART 3204: a half length portrait of Dame Maud McCarthy, wearing her distinctive grey and red QAIMNS uniform and sitting at a desk. On the desk in front of her is a vase of roses, a wooden letter rack, two bottles of ink and a bust of an injured male patient with his arm in a sling.

Connected by: Kristen1288

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ID: 8560228

Title: Great War Nurses - Blue plaque for Dame McCarthy

Description: Blue plaque erected at Dame McCarthy's home.

Connected by: Kristen1288

URL: http://greatwarnurses.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/the-blue-plaque-has-finally-arrived.html
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ID: 8560231

Reference: au_nsw_bmd_births

Title: New South Wales Births Transcription

Connected by: Kristen1288

UPP: ANZ/BMD/NSW/B/0001985647

Credit: © NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages

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ID: 8560233

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

Connected by: Kristen1288

UPP: BMD/D/1949/2/AZ/000627/105

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8560234

Title: National Portrait Gallery - Emma Maud McCarthy

Description: Three portraits of Emma Maud McCarthy

Connected by: Kristen1288

URL: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp05535/dame-emma-maud-mccarthy
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ID: 8560236

Name: Issue 30450, page 54

Title: The London Gazette - RRC

Description: Emma Maud McCarthy awarded a bar to the Royal Red Cross.

Connected by: Kristen1288

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30450/supplement/54/data.pdf
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ID: 8560241

Name: Issue 30905, page 11089, September 17, 1918

Title: The London Gazette - GBE

Description: Emma Maud McCarthy made Dame Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (GBE)

Connected by: Kristen1288

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30905/page/11089/data.pdf
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ID: 8592558

Title: Ms MaCcarthy

Connected by: debbie2674

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ID: 8592565

Title: Maud 1924

Description: by Bassano © National Portrait Gallery, London

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ID: 8593177

Title: Scarlett Finders website -War Diary

Description: Scarlett Finders website -War Diary. This is a transcription of a diary from 1914-1919 of the Matron of the BEF. The above link is to the beginning of the diary, with an explanation about the diary, Maud's input and includes notes on the text. It is part of the website "Scarlett Finders" which can be found at http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/index.html

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URL: http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/25.html
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Additional: all details in this document match those facts already known

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ID: 8907127

Reference: gbm_rrcr

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

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBM/RRCR/00000085

Additional: I am sure that this relates to Emma Maud McCarthy - the full name matches and so does the role - Nursing.

Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast

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ID: 9249739

Name: Wikipedia

Title: Maud McCarthy

Description: "Dame Emma Maud McCarthy GBE, RRC & Bar (22 September 1859 – 1 April 1949) was a nursing sister and British Army Matron-in-Chief."

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_McCarthy
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Additional: Matches full names and dates of birth and death.

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ID: 9249745

Name: Linda Shields, Deborah Magee 2015 ISSN 2051-6266 / 20150087

Title: A Leading Nurse in World War One: Dame Maud MCCarthy

Description: Four pages, full of information, photographs and references.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/assets/centresresearch/documents/wphs/LS%20A%20leading%20nurse%20in%20WW1.pdf
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Additional: Matches full name and military details.

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ID: 9515429

Title: MATRON IN CHIEF DAME E MAUD MCCARTHY

Description: Matron in Chief Dame E Maud McCarthy GBE RRC, British Armies in France. | Three quarter length portrait

Connected by: Yvonne27542

Additional: From the IWM Womens War Work Collection - https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205380840

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ID: 9515539

Name: Bomb Sight, mapping the WW2 Bomb Census

Title: Bombs dropped in the borough of: Kensington and Chelsea

Description: Map of the local area totally covered in red markers of where bombs fell during the Second World War, giving the statistics that between the 7th October 1940 and 6th June 1941, 467 high explosive bombs and 3 parachute bombs were dropped on Kensington and Chelsea by enemy aircraft. These statistics do not include later incidents, for example the V1 and V2 incidents, from approximately 1944..

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URL: http://bombsight.org/explore/greater-london/kensington-and-chelsea/
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Additional: Matches location of address in Chelsea, now marked by a Blue Plaque.