Lives of the First World War

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ID: 658046

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.

UPP: GBM/MCI/0658560

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7002473

Title: Fred Armitage Birth Certificate

Description: Record of Fred Armitage's birth in Huddersfield

Connected by: Mike50482

Additional: My Grandfather. Badly wounded on 1st July with 15th Royal Scots at the opening off the 1916 Somme battle, he lived until 1968

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ID: 7002482

Title: Private Fred Armitage.

Description: Studio portrait In uniform.

Connected by: Mike50482

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ID: 7002483

Title: Fred Armitage and Lilian Tucker

Description: In uniform, wearing his Royal Scots Glengarry. Also with LilianTucker

Connected by: Mike50482

Additional: This is my Grandfather and Grandmother. They met while Fred was recovering from wounds received at the opening of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916. They married in 1920. Photo was given to me by my Aunt Agnes (popularly known as Peggy).

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ID: 7002485

Title: Woodclyffe Hall, Wargrave hospital, Berks

Description: Three rows of beds in Woodclyffe Hall, part of Berkshire Red Cross VAD hospital no 58 at Wargrave near Reading. Fred Armitage is the soldier sitting on the bed in the middle of the photograph

Connected by: Mike50482

Additional: Fred Armitage is my Grandfather. He is recovering from wounds received with 34th Division on 1st July 1916. While here he met Lilian Tucker, whom he married in 1920. She is my grandmother. The third row of beds was added on 7th July because of the pressure from the opening of the Somme battle

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ID: 7002488

Title: Fred Armitage death certificate

Description: Fred Armitage Death certificate from 1968

Connected by: Mike50482

Additional: Fred Armitage death certificate. He died in Maurice House, a Royal British Legion nursing home in Westcliff, Kent. He was 82 years old. His wife, Lilian died in 1965.Thye were my grandparents

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ID: 7625091

Name: The Scotsman Monday August 14th 1916

Reference: National Newspaper Archives, Colindale

Title: The Scotsman

Description: Casualty lists of wounded. Royal Scots.

Connected by: Mike50482

Additional: Private F. Armitage, 25826 (Clayton le Moors) is included in the list of wounded. Other names show this to be a predominately a list of 15th Royal Scots casualties

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ID: 7646514

Name: Records returned for Fred Armitage

Title: First World War Campaign Medals DVD-ROM

Description: Published by The Naval & Military Press Ltd. 2014

Connected by: Mike50482

Additional: Shows Fred Armitage with 3 regimental Numbers:. 25826 Private Royal Scots; 345681 Royal Engineers and WR 281292 which gives his rank as Pioneer and unit as Royal Engineers, Railways.

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ID: 8591302

Name: Page 24

Title: The Times - 1st January 2016

Description: Article headed "Reluctant soldier's survival tells vivid story of the Somme" ... article detailing Fred's background and involvement in WW1.

Connected by: Yvonne27542

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ID: 8591892

Title: Times article 01/01/2016

Description: Th article from page 24 of the Times 1st January 2016, telling Fred 'sArmitage story

Connected by: Mike50482

Additional: Information supplied to Times by Mike Armitage, Fred's grandson

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ID: 8592214

Name: Online Times newspaper 1st January 2016

Title: Reluctant soldier’s survival tells vivid story of the Somme

Description: Article giving Fred Armitage's story. Page 24 of the newspaper.

Connected by: Mike50482

URL: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article4653674.ece
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Additional: I gave this story to the Times, via Dept. of Culture, Media and Sport as part of their WW1 centenary.

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ID: 9084297

Title: Fred Armitage War & Victory medals Obverse

Description: War & Victory medals Obverse unrestored

Connected by: Mike50482

Additional: Posted to me in August 2016 by my cousin Richard Hickmott

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ID: 9084308

Title: Fred Armitage War & Victory medals Reverse

Description: War & Victory medals reverse unrestored

Connected by: Mike50482

Additional: Posted to me in August 2016 by my cousin Richard Hickmott

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ID: 9084318

Title: Fred Armitage War & Victory medals Obverse

Description: War & Victory medals

Connected by: Mike50482

Additional: Fred Armitage's medals after cleaning, re-ribboning and mounting

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ID: 9084336

Title: Victory medal rim

Description: Close up of Fred Armitage Victory medal, showing engraving

Connected by: Mike50482

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ID: 9084339

Title: War Medal rim

Description: Close up of Fred Armitage's War medal showing engraving

Connected by: Mike50482

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ID: 9085466

Name: ISBN 1 85216 140 X

Reference: personal copy

Title: Manchester Scottish by Roger J. Dowson

Description: Published by Neil Richardson in 2000. The story of the Manchester contingent of 15th Battalion Royal Scots 1914-1918

Connected by: Mike50482

Additional: He features in the list of soldiers of 15th Battalion, Royal Scots in the book. Same name and regimental number

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