Lives of the First World War

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ID: 767709

Reference: WO372/4

Title: Medal Index Card

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.

URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D1754807
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UPP: GBM/MCI/0768334

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 6173253

Title: Personal Knowledge of Bridget Moonraker

Description: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

Connected by: Bridget3206

Additional: This source of evidence is based on a Member's Personal Knowledge.

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ID: 6173844

Title: Wiltshire Soldiers

Description: Detail page of Wiltshire Soldiers for Henry Charles Champion

Connected by: Bridget3206

URL: http://www.wiltshiresoldiers.co.uk/item-detail/?id={D04B4DB8-16E3-463E-ACA3-698C4419CE7B}
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Additional: All details match. Researched from primary sources by Richard Broadhead

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ID: 7241524

Reference: CWGCCASUALIWM

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records

Description: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) commemorate First World War servicemen and women and members of some civilian organisations who died before 31 August 1921 while in Commonwealth military service or of causes attributable to service.

Connected by: Imperial1

URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/455317/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/341531

Additional: This record has been automatically matched to the Life Story by IWM, using rules based on name, rank, number, regiment and service.

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 8909195

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Bridget3206

UPP: BMD/B/1900/1/AZ/000107/243

Additional: The only birth found via LoFWW in Wiltshire or nearby county of the right name and year to be this man.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8909197

Reference: wwisd

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

Connected by: Bridget3206

UPP: GBM/WWISD/0520127

Additional: Names, Regiment and place of birth all match.

Credit: © Naval and Military Press Ltd

Source information

ID: 8909200

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Bridget3206

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/11967/0589/4

Additional: Names, age and place of birth all match.

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8909203

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Bridget3206

UPP: GBC/1901/0012864978

Additional: Names, year of birth (age) and place of birth all match.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 8909310

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2005 Transcription

Connected by: Bridget3206

UPP: BMD/M/1897/4/AZ/000064/237

Additional: Probable marriage of this man's parents. Right district, year, forenames match censuses. Surname of bride is of family in North Bradley at the time.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8911788

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Bridget3206

UPP: GBC/1891/0011609931

Additional: Strong probability the Charles listed on this Census was this man's father, as his name and age match later Censuses. The family was later recorded living in North Bradley. NB Place of birth given here as Semington, he later gives Trowbridge; the Workhouse for Trowbridge was at Semington.

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ID: 8917675

Reference: 1881gbc

Title: 1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Bridget3206

UPP: GBC/1881/0009367467

Additional: This Census record appears to be the household of this man's paternal grandparents, with his father as a boy. Names and ages of parents and children match other records, in right geographical area.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8924243

Title: Baptism H C Champion, North Bradley Parish Reg.

Description: Source Citation Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre; Chippenham, Wiltshire, England; Wiltshire Parish Registers; Reference Number: 2400/1 Source Information Ancestry.com. Wiltshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1916 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017.

Connected by: Bridget3206

Additional: Note date of birth (27 Jan 1900) also noted on entry.

Source information

ID: 8924245

Name: Wilts & Swindon History Centre; Wiltshire Parish Registers; Ref No: 2400/1

Title: Baptism of HC Champion in North Bradley

Description: Parish Register, via Ancestry online database (see Image)

Connected by: Bridget3206

URL: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=bmr2&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=henry%20charles&gsfn_x=NP_NN&gsln=champion&gsln_x=NP_NN&msbdy=1900&_83004003-n_xcl=f&cpxt=1&cp=4&MSAV=1&MSV=0&uidh=a0g&gss=angs-c&pcat=34&h=929563&dbid=61188&indiv=1&ml_rpos=1
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Additional: Names of the man himself and his parents match a number of other records, also place where family is recorded as living.

Source information

ID: 8930587

Reference: 1891gbc

Title: 1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Bridget3206

UPP: GBC/1891/0011600933

Additional: Names and age match his mother. Also right geographically, unlike others of broadly similar name.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8930620

Name: ISBN-10: 0956382517; ISBN-13: 978-0956382511

Reference: Trowbridge Library

Title: The Great War: Trowbridge Soldiers Author: Richard Broadhead

Description: Collection of names of men of Trowbridge and surrounding villages killed in WW1, with some biographical details of many and photographs of some.

Connected by: Bridget3206

Additional: The above details match CWGC record and other records.

Source information

ID: 8930627

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Bridget3206

UPP: BMD/B/1913/1/AZ/000255/057

Additional: Maiden name of mother and location match the family as found in marriage and census records.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 8930629

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Bridget3206

UPP: BMD/B/1915/4/AZ/000218/134

Additional: Maiden name of mother and location match the family as found in marriage and census records.

Credit: © General Register Office