Lives of the First World War

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ID: 9046233

Name: ADM 196/20/123

Title: Admiralty: Officers' Service Records

Description: Name; Smith-Cumming, Mansfield G. Date of Birth: 01 April 1859. Rank: Lieutenant. Date of Appointment: 15 January 1872. Date: 15 January 1872.

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URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7590368
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Additional: Record used as "seed data" for this Life Story.

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ID: 9046241

Name: ADM 196/39/377

Title: Admiralty: Officers' Service Records

Description: Name: Smith-Cumming, Mansfield George. Date of Birth: 01 April 1859. Rank: Captain. Date of Appointment: January 1872. Date: January 1872.

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URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7601771
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ID: 9046582

Name: Secret Intelligence Service MI6

Title: Our history

Description: Under our history:Mansfield Cumming the original "C". "In October 1914 Cumming encountered personal tragedy. He and his son were involved in a motor accident in France. Cumming's injuries were severe (broken legs and the loss of a foot) while his son suffered fatal head injuries."

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URL: https://www.sis.gov.uk/our-history.html
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Additional: Matches surname and information in the Life Story of Alistair Smith - Cumming.

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ID: 9046634

Name: Grace's Guide

Title: Mansfield Smith-Cumming

Description: Captain Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming KCMG, CB (1 April 1859 – 14 June 1923)

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URL: https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Mansfield_Smith-Cumming
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Additional: Matches name, date of birth and military details - for example rank.

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ID: 9046643

Reference: gbm_adm196_lives

Title: Royal Navy Officers 1899-1919 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBM/ADM196/11656/1

Additional: Matches name, year of birth and military details of Captain in the Royal Navy.

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9046646

Reference: gbm_rn_foreign_awards

Title: British Royal Navy, Foreign Awards to officers index 1914-1922 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBM/RN_FOREIGN_MEDALS/0107

Additional: Matches name and service in the Royal Navy.

Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast

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ID: 9046648

Reference: gbm_rn_foreign_awards

Title: British Royal Navy, Foreign Awards to officers index 1914-1922 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBM/RN_FOREIGN_MEDALS/1379

Additional: Matches name and service in the Royal Navy

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ID: 9046652

Reference: gbm_rn_foreign_awards

Title: British Royal Navy, Foreign Awards to officers index 1914-1922 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBM/RN_FOREIGN_MEDALS/2584

Additional: Matches name and service in the Royal Navy

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ID: 9046655

Reference: gbm_rnomr_1914

Title: Royal Navy Officers Medal Roll 1914-1920 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBM/RNO/26503

Additional: Matches name, rank and service.

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9046657

Reference: gbm_1914_star

Title: Royal Navy, 1914 Star Medal Roll 1914-1920 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBM/1914-STAR/7445

Additional: Matches name and service with the Royal Navy

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9046658

Reference: gbm_rn_foreign_awards

Title: British Royal Navy, Foreign Awards to officers index 1914-1922 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBM/RN_FOREIGN_MEDALS/1847

Additional: Matches name and service with the Royal Navy

Credit: Courtesy of Findmypast

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ID: 9046667

Name: Wikipedia

Title: Mansfield Smith-Cumming

Description: "Captain Sir Mansfield George Smith Cumming, KCMG, CB (1 April 1859 – 14 June 1923."

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansfield_Smith-Cumming
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Additional: Matches name, dates of birth and death and military details.

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ID: 9046679

Name: The London Gazette Publication date:14 January 1916

Title: The London Gazette

Description: "Whitehall, January 12, 1916. The KING has been pleased to give and grant unto Commander (Acting Captain) Mansfield George Smith-Cumming, C.B., R.N., His Majesty's Royal licence and authority to wear the Cross of Officer of the Legion of Honour, which Decoration has been conferred upon him by the President of the French Republic in recognition of valuable services rendered by him."

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29439/page/625
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Additional: Matches name and military details.

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ID: 9046681

Name: The London Gazette Publication date:27 June 1919

Title: The London Gazette

Description: "Admiralty, 25th June, 1919. Cdr. (retd.) to be Capt. (retd.) in recognition of services rendered during the War— Mansfield G. Smith -Cumming, C.B. llth. Nov. 1918.

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31422/page/8097
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Additional: Matches name and military details of rank and service.

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ID: 9046708

Name: Lives of the First World War

Title: Lieutenant Alastair Mansfield Smith-Cumming

Description: Life story of son.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/5193949
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Additional: Life Story of son.

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ID: 9046732

Name: Wikipedia

Title: Dame Blanche (resistance)

Description: "After the end of the war, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, head of MI6, estimated that Dame Blanche had supplied as much as 70 percent of all military intelligence collected by Allied intelligence services world-wide, not merely that from German-occupied Belgium and northern France."

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dame_Blanche_(resistance)
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Additional: Matches Mansfield Smith Cumming head of MI6

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ID: 9046754

Name: Wikipédia

Title: Dame blanche (légende)

Description: "On trouve des dames blanches attachées aux Habsbourg, aux Hohenzollern - "

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URL: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dame_blanche_(l%C3%A9gende)
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Additional: Dame Blanche (resistance) took its name from a German legend which stated that the fall of the Hohenzollern dynasty would be announced by the appearance of a woman wearing white.

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ID: 9046761

Name: English Heritage (April 2015)

Title: New Blue Plaque unveiled for Mansfield Cumming

Description: " Born Mansfield George Smith, he became Mansfield Smith-Cumming on his marriage to May Cumming in 1889, before later dropping the Smith."

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URL: http://blog.english-heritage.org.uk/blue-plaque-mansfield-smith-cumming/
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Additional: Matches name, years of birth and death and Military Details - the portrait matches one in the IWM collections.

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ID: 9046763

Reference: 1881gbc

Title: 1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBC/1881/0026110733

Additional: Matches name and previous surname, also service in the Royal Navy.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9046774

Name: Keith Jeffery in the Independent (25/9/2010)

Title: MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949

Description: "Mansfield Cumming, the founding chief of the service."

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/mi6-the-history-of-the-secret-intelligence-service-1909-1949-by-keith-jeffery-2086661.html
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Additional: Matches surname.

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ID: 9046826

Name: Spartacus Educational

Title: Mansfield Smith-Cumming

Description: Fairly lengthy biography.

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URL: http://spartacus-educational.com/SScumming.htm
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Additional: Matches

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ID: 9046829

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2005 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: BMD/M/1889/1/AZ/000241/308

Additional: Matches name George Smith and name of spouse

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9046838

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: BMD/D/1923/2/AZ/000190/144

Additional: Matches names years of birth and death and place of death.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9046854

Name: Kevin Quinlan (October 2014)

Title: The Secret War Between the Wars: MI5 in the 1920s and 1930s

Description: "Using recently declassified files of the British Security Service (MI5), The Secret War Between the Wars details the operations and tradecraft of British intelligence to thwart Communist revolutionaries, Soviet agents, and Nazi sympathizers during the interwar period."

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URL: https://boydellandbrewer.com/the-secret-war-between-the-wars-mi5-in-the-1920s-and-1930s.html
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Additional: Developments after Captain Mansfield George Smith-Cumming died in 1923.

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ID: 9046866

Name: Wikipedia

Title: Secret Intelligence Service

Description: Scroll down to Inter-War period "In the immediate post-war years under Sir Mansfield George Smith-Cumming and throughout most of the 1920s, SIS was focused on Communism, in particular, Russian Bolshevism."

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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Intelligence_Service#Inter-War_period
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Additional: Matches name.

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ID: 9046882

Name: Catalogue number HU 73464 Imperial War Museum

Title: Captain Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming R.N (1859 - 1923)

Description: Half-length portrait of Cumming in full dress uniform during the First World War when head of MI1C, the organisation that was later to become the Secret Intelligence Service.

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URL: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205039754
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Additional: Matches name, years of birth and death and Military details. All rights reserved by IWM - © IWM (HU 73464)

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ID: 9047086

Name: Allobrogia published on youtube 29 Apr 2010

Title: La Résistance/the partisan-Leonard Cohen

Description: This actually concerns the French Resistance during the Second World War by MI6. It is sung in English and French.

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URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4H9XP2qnjM
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Additional: This concerns the Second World War, which was after 1923 when Captain Mansfield George Smith-Cumming died. None the less it seems relevant.

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