Lives of the First World War

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ID: 5466444

Reference: WO372/27

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.

UPP: GBM/MCI/5472394

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9629200

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records Transcription

Connected by: Frances39865

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/428060

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Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 9629258

Name: Woodleigh Deanery Magazine Oct1916 first part

Reference: Kingsbridge Cookworthy Local Records office

Title: Parish magazine

Description: ROLL OF HONOUR _ Mr and Mrs Longridge and their family are more than visitors among us. For many years they have spent the summer months in their house at Tor Cross and have been given generous support to our Church work. They may be assured of our condolence in their recent bereavement from the loss of their eldest son, Colonel Longridge, who fell in the recent offensive on the Western Front while leading his men. LIEUT_COLONEL JAMES ATKINSON LONGBRIDGE, C.M.G., Indian Army, who fell on Aug 18, was the second son of Michael Longridge, M.Inst.C.E. and grandson of James Atkinson Longridge, M.Inst.C.E., inventor, designer, and owner of the first rifled B.L. “wire gun”. He was educated at the Grange, Folkestone, Malvern college, and Sandhurst, where he was placed second in the final examination. He joins the Royal West Surrey Regiment in 1895 and entered the Indian Army two years later

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ID: 9629265

Name: Woodleigh Deanery Magazine Oct 1916 second part

Reference: Kingsbridge Cookworthy Local Records office

Title: Parish magazine

Description: He took part in the Boxer and Somaliland campaigns and afterwards passed the Indian Staff College with distinction. In 1912 he was selected for the combined appointments of staff officer attached to the Military department of the Indian Affairs for the Committee of Imperial defence. In September 1914, he gave up these appointments to join the Army in France on the staff of the Indian contingent , and in 1915 he became chief of the staff division. Colonel Longridge was the holder of three medals, was mentioned five times in dispatches and was made C.M.G in June 1916. He was killed instantaneously on August 18, aged 41. He married Alice Lilian, daughter of General Berkeley, Indian Army.

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ID: 9629305

Reference: 1881gbc

Title: 1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Frances39865

UPP: GBC/1881/0017908646

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Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9629319

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Frances39865

UPP: GBM/MCI/5392466

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Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9629325

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Frances39865

UPP: GBM/MCI/5392467

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Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9629329

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Frances39865

UPP: GBM/MCI/5392468

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Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9629331

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Frances39865

UPP: GBM/MCI/5424629

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Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9629335

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Frances39865

UPP: GBC/1891/0015954760

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Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9629345

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Frances39865

UPP: BMD/B/1875/1/AZ/000345/326

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Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9629361

Name: Streatham St Peter and St Paul

Title: babtisms at Sreatham

Description: irst name(s) James Atkinson Last name Longridge Birth year - Baptism year 1875 Baptism date 15 Feb 1875 Baptism place Streatham St Peter and St Paul Relationship Son Father's first name(s) Michael Mother's first name(s) Georgina Frederica Nepean Parent's occupation Civil Engineer Residence Balham County Surrey Country England

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URL: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS/SURREY/FHS/BAP/000038288
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