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.
Additional: Name, rank and regiment match. Note also that Neville Middleton is on the same list - both from the same Platoon on 14th Royal Warwickshire Regiment (Birmingham Pals)
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ID: 6997009
Name: London Gazette 5 October 1915 Issue 29316 Page 9764
Title: Promotion to Second Lieutenant
Description: The Lancashire Fusiliers
The undermentioned to be temporary Second Lieutenants:
Henry Bertram Cartwright. Dated 27th August 1915
Lucas Neville Middleton. Dated 30th August 1915
Additional: Name, rank and Regiment match. Note that Neville Middleton is on the same list - in the same platoon of 14th Royal Warwickshire Regiment (Birmingham Pals)
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ID: 6997017
Reference: gbm_bir_pals
Title: Birmingham City Battalions 1914-1918 Transcription
Connected by: Andrew10867
UPP: GBM/BIR-PALS/130
Additional: Name and date of commission roughly matches announcement of commission in London Gazette
Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast
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ID: 6997031
Reference: gbm_bir_pals
Title: Birmingham City Battalions 1914-1918 Transcription
Connected by: Andrew10867
UPP: GBM/BIR-PALS/947
Additional: Name, Regiment and Service number match
Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast
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ID: 6997033
Title: Birmingham Daily Post 04 September 1914
Description: THE "CITY" BATTALION
LIST OF APPLICANTS
We give below the list of applicants for the "City" Battalion who yesterday registered their names at the "Daily Post" Office. The total number up to date is 3,444.
The offices of the "Post" will be open for registration from 9 a.m. till 10 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow, when the register will be closed.
The names are as follows:
ANDERTON, S., Eagle Cliff, Strensham Hill, Moseley.
...
ALLEN, C.B., 134, Belgrave Road.
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CARTWRIGHT, H.B., Erlescote, Victoria Road, Sutton Coldfield.
...
FARNELL, A.B., 76 Leonard Road, Handsworth
FARNELL, A.C., 76 Leonard Road, Handsworth
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HOE, A., 84 Station Road, Kings Norton
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JUKES, A.E., 84 Station Road, Kings Norton
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LINDNER, C.A., 25 Broad Street, Birmingham
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SANDERS, V.G., 35, Westfield Road, Edgbaston.
SANDERS, H.J., 35, Westfield Road, Edgbaston.
...
Title: British Officers taken Prisoner of War 1914-1918 Transcription
Connected by: Andrew10867
UPP: GMB/BOPOW/2028
Additional: Name, Rank and Regiment match. Also his medal card states "Exonerated Officers List/C'. This is an indication he had been a prisoner of war
Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast
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ID: 6997170
Title: Census of Ireland 1901
Description: Hy Bertram Cartwright, Son, Church of Ireland, Cannot Read, 6, M, -, -, Co Tipperary
Description: CARTWRIGHT Henry Bertram of 21 Royal Road Sutton Coldfield Warwickshire died 18 July 1964 Probate Birmingham 22 October to Phyllis Gertrude Cartwright widow £2933