Lives of the First World War

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ID: 646408

Reference: WO372/1

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=D1632334
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UPP: GBM/MCI/0646908

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 6967748

Title: Medal Index Card (Index)

Description: Medal index card on Ancestry has full service numbers. Source Information: Ancestry.com. British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: Army Medal Office. WWI Medal Index Cards. In the care of The Western Front Association website.

Connected by: Hannah21187

URL: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&gss=angs-c&gsfn=reginald+frederick&gsln=anstey&gskw=exeter&uidh=avq&pcat=39&h=138319&recoff=9+10+11&db=MedalRolls&indiv=1&ml_rpos=1
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Additional: Names, regiments and partial service numbers match.

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ID: 6967751

Name: Reginald Fredrick Anstey, Service Number: 40165

Title: CWGC Reginald Fredrick Anstey

Description: Rank:Private Service No:40165 Date of Death:01/12/1918 Age:21 Regiment/Service:Gloucestershire Regiment formerly Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry Grave Reference: North-west of church. Cemetery:IDDESLEIGH (ST. JAMES) CHURCHYARD Additional Information: Son of John and Sarah Ann Anstey, of Smytham Farm, Iddesleigh.

Connected by: Hannah21187

URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/350280/ANSTEY,%20REGINALD%20FREDRICK
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Additional: Names and military details (regiments, service number) match

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ID: 6967752

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

Connected by: Hannah21187

UPP: BMD/D/1918/4/AZ/000031/110

Additional: Names, date of death and age match.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 6967754

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Hannah21187

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/13132/0001/4

Additional: Names match. Parents and residence consistent with CWGC information.

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 6967755

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Hannah21187

UPP: GBC/1901/0017935482

Additional: Names match. Age, family, place of birth/residence consistent with previous information.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 6967756

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Hannah21187

UPP: BMD/B/1897/4/AZ/000014/008

Additional: Names match. Age and place of birth consistent with previous information (census). Iddesleigh is in Okehampton registration district.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 6990096

Name: Western Times, 5 December 1919

Title: Western Times: "In Loving Memory", 5 December 1919

Description: Death notice in Western Times.

Connected by: Hannah21187

Source information

ID: 7190660

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/350280/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/255610

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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