Lives of the First World War

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ID: 7840356

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/D8014766
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UPP: GBM/BT351/097654

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9115105

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Alexander119331

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/05553/0157/7

Additional: 1911 C A Foy is in the Merchant Navy, boarding in Southsea, Portsmouth. Names, dates and place of birth match other records.

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 9115111

Reference: bmd_maritime_deaths

Title: Deaths at sea, 1781-1968 Transcription

Connected by: Alexander119331

UPP: BMD/D/MARITIME/545449

Additional: Names, dates and place of birth (Brazil) match.

Credit: © Findmypast

Source information

ID: 9283004

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Alexander119331

UPP: GBC/1901/0010797935

Additional: Above details match. Surname miss transcribed as Fay, should read Foy.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9283011

Title: CWGC record for C A Foy, Died WW2 Commemorated Tower Hill Memorial, London

Description: Master FOY, CECIL ARNOLD Died 12/04/1941 Aged 53 S.S. Retriever (London) Merchant Navy Son of Frank Burridge Foy and Beatrice Louise Foy; husband of Elaine Foy, of Cape Town, South Africa. Awarded Lloyd's Medal.

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URL: https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2787032/foy,-cecil-arnold/
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Additional: Above details match.

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ID: 9283028

Title: Bedford Modern School World War Two Memorial

Description: C A Foy appears on the School WW2 Memorial. His name is listed on the woodern panels and he appears in the WW2 book of Remembrance.

Connected by: Alexander119331

Additional: School WW2 Memorial

Source information

ID: 9283030

Title: Tower Hill Memorial WW1 and WW2

Description: Master C A Foy appears on this memorial.

Connected by: Alexander119331

Source information

ID: 9297809

Name: December 1935, Ed XX, No.4 Pages 226 and 227

Reference: Bedford Modern School Archive

Title: Bedford Modern School Eagle Magazine

Description: School magazine, containing letters from OBMs to School and School news.

Connected by: Alexander119331

Additional: Above details match.

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ID: 9316144

Name: Vol XXIII, No.5, page 364

Reference: Bedford Modern School Archive

Title: Bedford Modern School Eagle Magazine dated March 1942

Description: A death notice in the Old Boy's Section of the Eagle for C A Foy killed by enemy action.

Connected by: Alexander119331

Additional: Above details match.

Source information

ID: 9316219

Name: Vol. XXIV, No.1, Dec 1942, page 62

Reference: Bedford Modern School Archive

Title: Bedford Modern School Eagle Magazine dated December 1942

Description: C A Foy posthumously awarded the LLoyds Medal for his actions during the sinking of his vessel.

Connected by: Alexander119331

Additional: Above details match.

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