Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 7602545

Reference: AIR76

Title: British RAF Officers 1912-1920

Description: Officers who served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) between 1912-1920. This record set contains records of around 100,000 RAF officers.

UPP: GBM/AIR76/98471

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 8660182

Reference: wwisd

Title: Soldiers died in the Great War 1914-1919 Transcription

Connected by: Andrew43023

UPP: GBM/WWISD/1030303

Additional: Names, age, all match.

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

Source information

ID: 8660192

Reference: gbm_hac_idx_cards

Title: HAC World War One record cards 1914-1919 Transcription

Connected by: Andrew43023

UPP: GBM/HAC/IDXCARDS/12031

Additional: Names, dates, military details, all match.

Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast

Source information

ID: 8660207

Reference: gbm_hac_idx_cards

Title: HAC World War One record cards 1914-1919 Transcription

Connected by: Andrew43023

UPP: GBM/HAC/IDXCARDS/12032

Additional: Names, dates, military details, all match.

Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast

Source information

ID: 8660210

Reference: gbm_hac_mem_books

Title: HAC vellum membership books 1908-1922 Transcription

Connected by: Andrew43023

UPP: GBM/HAC/MEMBOOKS/3102

Additional: Names, date, military details all match.

Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast

Source information

ID: 8660216

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Andrew43023

UPP: GBC/1901/0010601054

Additional: Surname, first name, initials, age, all match.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 8660218

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Andrew43023

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/06182/0128/20

Additional: Names, age, all match.

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 8660220

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records Transcription

Connected by: Andrew43023

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/294026

Additional: Names, dates, military details, all match.

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Source information

ID: 8660222

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 Transcription

Connected by: Andrew43023

UPP: BMD/M/1918/1/AZ/001126/083

Additional: Names match, date is plausible.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 8660224

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Andrew43023

UPP: BMD/B/1892/3/AZ/000639/146

Additional: Names, date of birth, place, all match.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 8660229

Title: Oliver Byerley Walters Wills MC, 1892 - 1918

Description: Biographical and military details: photographs of Olive in uniform, and of his grave. Sketches by him of his wedding, and of a dogfight.

Connected by: Andrew43023

URL: http://www.medtheatre.themoon.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/3A_SERVED_airindd.pdf
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Additional: All details match.

Source information

ID: 8660232

Name: Flight magazine, 14 November 1918, p1299.

Title: Obituaries

Description: Brief obituary notice.

Connected by: Andrew43023

URL: https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1918/1918%20-%201298.PDF
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Additional: All details match.

Source information

ID: 8660237

Name: Supplement to the Edinburgh Gazette, March 11, 1918. p954

Title: Military Cross

Description: Citation to T/Lt Oliver Wills' MC.

Connected by: Andrew43023

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/13220/page/954/data.pdf
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Additional: Names, military details all match.

Source information

ID: 8660249

Name: With the British Army in Flanders.

Title: Moretonhampstead - St Andrew's Church and War Memorial

Description: Excellent photographs of the war memorial panel within the church: Wills, Oliver B.W., the only Air Force death, is the last name on the roll of honour. (His father owned Pepperdon House in the parish.)

Connected by: Andrew43023

URL: http://thebignote.com/2012/03/08/moretonhampstead-st-andrews-church-war-memorial/
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Additional: Name, military details, all match.

Source information

ID: 8660256

Name: Moretonhampstead History Society

Title: Moretonhampstead's War Dead

Description: Biographical and military information for Wills, Oliver Byerley Walters.

Connected by: Andrew43023

URL: http://www.moretonhampstead.org.uk/texts/wars/ww1.ghtml
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Additional: All details match.

Source information

ID: 8660824

Reference: gbm_mci

Title: Medal Index Cards Transcription

Connected by: Fife3190

UPP: GBM/MCI/4803568

Additional: Details match

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 8661374

Name: 0099597799

Reference: Google Books

Title: A Broken World: letters, diaries and memories of the Great War. FAULKS, Sebastian.

Description: An account by Hermia Mills of how the death of Oliver Wills was first reported to his wife's family.

Connected by: Andrew43023

Additional: Family names, circumstances and date of the airman's death, all match.

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