Lives of the First World War

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ID: 5913101

Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 3102 - 5

Title: Canadian Attestation Papers

Description: At the time of their enrollment in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Officer’s completed a Declaration Paper, volunteers a two sided Attestation Paper and conscripts a single sided Enlistment form. They each contain brief details about the individual. Images supplied by Libraries and Archives Canada. This source was connected by Imperial War Museums.

UPP: GBM/CAN-ATT/389120

Credit: © Libraries and Archives Canada

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ID: 6647405

Title: Personal Knowledge of Sylvia Chaplin

Description: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

Connected by: Sylvia3155

Additional: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

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ID: 7256874

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

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/319789

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

Source information

ID: 7962146

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Sylvia3155

UPP: GBC/1901/0019225716

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 7962150

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 Transcription

Connected by: Sylvia3155

UPP: BMD/M/1894/4/AZ/000117/046

Additional: Marriage certificate in family archives

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 7962155

Reference: 1881gbc

Title: 1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Sylvia3155

UPP: GBC/1881/0008324517

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 7962180

Name: The National Archives WO97-2788-099-001/007

Reference: Accessed through www.findmypast.co.uk

Title: Archive records online

Description: Attestation and Service Records of John Fishbourne's military service as a professional soldier in the Royal Field/Horse Artillery 1879 (aged 15years) to 1901. Served in India

Connected by: Sylvia3155

Additional: Family records substantiate this evidence

Source information

ID: 7962674

Title: Mary Elizabeth Fishbourne c.1920

Description: Mary Elizabeth, wife of John, wearing around her neck the Canadian Memorial Cross that she received after the war.

Connected by: Sylvia3155

Additional: Photograph in the Fishbourne Family Archive together with the Memorial Cross.

Source information

ID: 7962679

Title: WW1 Canadian Memorial Cross

Description: Canadian Memorial Cross issued to closest family relative of those who died in the war. Inscribed with soldiers name on the rear.

Connected by: Sylvia3155

Additional: Artefact contained in the Fishbourne Family Archive together with photographs and family documents.

Source information

ID: 7962693

Title: Rear surface of WW1 Canadian Memorial Cross

Description: Inscribed 349279 Gnr. J. Fishbourne

Connected by: Sylvia3155

Additional: The rear inscription on the Canadian Memorial Cross sent to Mary Elizabeth after the war and now held in Fishbourne Family Archive.

Source information

ID: 7962697

Title: War Memorial St Lambert, Canada

Description: It is said that more soldiers enlisted into the C.E.F from the small town of St Lambert than almost anywhere else in Canada. John's name is recorded on the memorial.

Connected by: Sylvia3155

Source information

ID: 7962705

Title: WW1 St Lambert Memorial

Description: Inscription bearing the names of men from St Lambert who lost their lives in WW1 among them, John Fishbourne.

Connected by: Sylvia3155

Additional: Photo taken in 1959 by grandson of Peter Henry Fishbourne (John's brother) on a visit to Canadian descendants of William Fishbourne (John's other brother)

Source information

ID: 7962723

Title: Marriage Certificate 15.11.1894

Description: Marriage of Mary Elizabeth Buckby to John Fishbourne

Connected by: Sylvia3155

Additional: Marriage Certificate held in Fishbourne Family Archive

Source information

ID: 7962729

Title: Grave XXI.CC.13 Lijssenthoek, Belgium

Description: Headstone of John Fishbourne's grave. This photograph is mounted and was sent to his widow by the War Graves Commission

Connected by: Sylvia3155

Source information

ID: 7962871

Name: Passenger lists

Title: Canadian Passenger Lists 1865-1935

Description: 17.08.1905 John Fishbourne, aged 40, occupation army, is recorded on the passenger list of HMS Kensington travelling from Liverpool to Quebec to join his brother.

Connected by: Sylvia3155

URL: http://www.ancestry.co.uk
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Additional: Known in the family that John travelled to Canada to join his brother William Fishbourne. Mary Elizabeth did not join him and he did not return. They had no children.

Source information

ID: 7962915

Name: RG150, Accession 1992-93/166 Box 3102-5

Title: Soldiers of the First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force database

Description: These are the service and casualty records for John Fishbourne from when he enlisted in 1916 to his death in Belgium in November 1917.

Connected by: Sylvia3155

URL: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/index-e.html
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ID: 7962963

Name: 5th Artillary Brigade

Title: 'Actions in the Field' CEF daily logs ie War Diaries

Description: War Diaries for action around John's death Oct-Nov 1917

Connected by: Sylvia3155

URL: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/020152 e.html
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Additional: War Diary gave an understanding of the action that was being fought by the CEF at the time of John's death.

Source information

ID: 8452485

Title: John Fishbourne From Ireland A Soldier's Tale

Description: The life story of John Fishbourne including his military career both in the British and Canadian Armies drawn from research into family and official archives by the Chaplin family.

Connected by: Sylvia3155

URL: http://www.british-immigrants-in-montreal.com
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