Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 6261111

Reference: ADM188

Title: Royal Navy Seamen 1899-1919

Description: The Royal Navy Seamen records contain the complete service histories of 373,000 ratings who joined the service between 1899 and 1919.

UPP: GBM/ADM188/10873

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 9222128

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: BMD/D/1940/4/AZ/000094/144

Additional: Matches name and approximate year of birth.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9222133

Name: Beckenham Crematorium and Cemetery

Title: CWGC

Description: "Volunteer BLEKSLEY, WALTER CHARLES Died 17/10/1940 Aged 56 35th County of London (Civil Service) Bn. Home Guard Son of Frederick Charles and Emma Bleksley; husband of J. Bleksley, of Beckenham."

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2824608/bleksley,-walter-charles/
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Additional: Matches name, year of death and age at death 56.

Source information

ID: 9222152

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: BMD/B/1885/3/AZ/000054/078

Additional: Matches full name and year of birth.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9222154

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2005 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: BMD/M/1919/1/AZ/000082/089

Additional: Matches name and information in the CWGC record.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9222156

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBC/1891/0005179293

Additional: Matches name, approximate year of birth, place of birth and names of parents.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9222309

Title: Probate Record

Description: Bleksley, Walter Charles of 26, Upper Elmers End Road Beckenham

Connected by: Jonathan101862

Additional: Saved from Ancestry.co.uk

Source information

ID: 9222324

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBC/1901/0013622639

Additional: Matches name,approximate year and place of birth.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9222332

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/34973/0480/25

Additional: Matches name, approximate year of birth and place of birth - also rank of Able Bodied Seaman.

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 9222338

Name: Ronan Thomas 01/04/2011.

Title: 10 Downing Street 14 October 1940

Description: "In the late evening of 17 October bombs were again dropped directly on the Treasury Buildings (killing two)"

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://www.westendatwar.org.uk/page/10_downing_street
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Additional: Matches place and date of death.

Source information

ID: 9222342

Name: BT

Title: September 7, 1940: German bombs rain down on London as the Blitz begins

Description: About the London Blitz with video and photograph.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://home.bt.com/news/on-this-day/september-7-1940-german-bombs-rain-down-on-london-as-the-blitz-begins-11364002258473
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Additional: About the London Blitz with video and photograph.

Source information

ID: 9222346

Name: IWM Staff 1 February 2018

Title: Growing up in the Second World War

Description: Very interesting - lots of photographs and informative text.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/growing-up-in-the-second-world-war
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Additional: photographs and informative text.

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ID: 9222353

Name: IWM Staff 5 January 2018

Title: 15 powerful photos of the Blitz.

Description: 15 photographs taken during the Blitz.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/15-powerful-photos-of-the-blitz
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Additional: Able Bodied Seaman Walter Charles Bleksley served during the First World War and as a volunteer in the Home Guard during the Second.

Source information

ID: 9222361

Name: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24332937

Title: Volunteer Walter Charles Bleksley

Description: Beckenham Cemetery Sec. S.12. Grave 17864.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24332937
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Additional: Matches name, date of death and service information.

Source information

ID: 9224458

Title: Cross of Sacrifice

Description: Beckenham Crematorium and Cemetery

Connected by: Jonathan101862

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