Lives of the First World War

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ID: 8508329

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

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

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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/299652

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 8508330

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/B/1899/1/AZ/000551/032

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8508331

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/18336/0491/5

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8508332

Reference: wwisd

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

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UPP: GBM/WWISD/0648789

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

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ID: 8508333

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1901/0018085820

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8508337

Title: WW1 Memorial

Description: WW1 Memorial that was in St Barnabas Church Erdington until it was destroyed by fire in 2007. This soldier's name was on the memorial. Photograph used with kind permission of Tony Wooley. © Tony Wooley

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ID: 8508340

Title: Morpeth Herald 31 August 1917

Description: Report on the drowning of nine servicemen.

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ID: 8508342

Title: Birmingham Gazette 27 August 1917

Description: Report on the death of Harry B Southern

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ID: 8508344

Title: Birmingham Daily Post 27 August 1917

Description: A report on the death of Harry B Southern

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ID: 8508346

Title: World War One at home

Description: "On 24 August 1917, nine soldiers drowned swimming off Blyth beach in Northumberland. They were among a group of around 600 soldiers from the Royal Warwickshire regiment on a training march. It was a hot day and they were given permission to go into the sea but many could barely swim. Newspaper reports of the inquests of the nine men suggest that the tide was on the way out and those that died were swimming between the West Pier and the Link House, an area dangerous at low tide. There was no boat on the beach so many soldiers attempted to rescue those in trouble by linking hands but the current was too strong. Most of the bodies were returned to their relatives in the Midlands by train transported to the station by military wagons covered in the Union Flag, watched by many local people. The body of Lieutenant Kenneth Brown, which was only recovered from the sea several days later, is buried in Horton Churchyard."

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