Lives of the First World War

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ID: 553854

Reference: WO372/3

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=D1539714
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UPP: GBM/MCI/0554290

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7150742

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/58362/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/128251

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: 7546012

Title: Portrait photograph of Philip Anthony Brown

Description: Lieutenant Philip Anthony Brown 13 Battalion, Durham Light Infantry Son of Anthony and Jane Chalmers Brown, of "Broomhill," Southend Rd., Beckenham, Kent. A graduate of New College Oxford, he was killed in action aged 29 on 4 November 1915 at Armentieres. He is buried at Ration Farm Military Cemetery, La Chapelle-d'Armentieres. His brother, Captain T A Brown was killed near Loos in 1917.

Connected by: Charlotte33

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ID: 7657264

Title: WEA tutor remembered

Description: The Workers' Educational Association is searching for more information about the life of one of its most popular early tutors, the historian Philip Anthony Brown.

Connected by: Nigel58445

URL: http://ne.wea.org.uk/news/moving-tribute-wea-world-war-1-hero
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Additional: Further evidence about Philip Brown's links with the WEA may be found in: Nigel Todd, 'A WorkingClass Hero is Something to Be: the Origins of the Workers' Educational Association in the North East to 1920' in Jonathan Brown (ed), The Right to Learn: the WEA in the North of England 1910-2010, (WEA, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2010, ISBN 978-0-900823-89-3)

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ID: 7657266

Name: The Highway, May 1915 (Workers' Educational Association monthly magazine)

Reference: WEA national archive, TUC Collection, London Metropolitan University

Title: Letter from Philip Anthony Brown

Description: Letter to WEA national magazine explaining how he had decided to join the army and describing life at a training camp prior to departure for France.

Connected by: Nigel58445

Additional: Clear link to WEA

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ID: 7657342

Title: Beckenham War Memorial

Connected by: Trevor321