Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 7749865

Reference: BT351

Title: Merchant Navy Seamen: 1914-1918

Description: These records consist of over 157,000 index cards recording the issue of the British War Medal and the Mercantile Marine Medal to merchant seamen and officers in the First World War.

URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8105411
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UPP: GBM/BT351/007009

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 9424115

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1891/0027172285

Additional: occupation

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9424119

Reference: 1881gbc

Title: 1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1881/0022339905

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9476179

Title: Remembrance

Description: poppies

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Source information

ID: 9579093

Name: Bath Postal Museum, 2001-06-059

Title: Letter recovered from HMS Ermine

Description: A foolscap cover addressed to Officer Commanding, 3rd Royal Marine Bn., c/o S.N.O. Mudros has the date stamp ARMY POST OFFICE SX 11 1 AU 17. There is a m/s endorsement in ink "Saved from / Fleet Messenger / "Ermine" 2.8.17". There is a red oval receipt mark of 4.8.17. The backstamps read: "BASE POST OFFICE X 1 AU 17 and ARMY POST OFFICE SX3 4 AU 17." The Fleet Messenger H.M.S. Ermine was sunk by an explosion at 0055 hours 2 August 1917 during Salonika operations in lat. 40" 39 North, long. 23" 34 East. She was a trawler built in 1903 of 181 tons and had one three pounder gun.

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URL: https://bathpostalmuseum.org.uk/ermine-1917.html
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Additional: HMS Ermine was first in the Navy List August 1915, Skipper Albert Thundercliffe, R.N.R.

Source information

ID: 9579097

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/D/1936/4/AZ/000958/091

Credit: © General Register Office

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