Lives of the First World War

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ID: 9501720

Name: The National Archives WO 339/76730

Title: Lieutenant Robert Claude Radcliffe COCKBURN

Description: Lieutenant Robert Claude Radcliffe COCKBURN served with the Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment).

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URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1130561
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Additional: TNA record used a seeding data

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ID: 9501726

Name: 9438 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 12 SEPTEMBER, 1917

Title: London Gazette:

Description: War Office, 12th September, 1917. REGULAR FORCES. The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets, from the R. Mil. Coll., to be 2nd Lts. Dated 13th Sept. 1917: — Wilts. R.—Harry John Anderson. Robert Claude Radcliffe Cockburn.

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URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30280/supplement/9438/data.pdf
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Additional: Matches TNA record

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ID: 9501734

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/05118/0547/11

Additional: His full name matches his records at TNA, London Gazette and Berkhamsted School archives

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 9501761

Name: Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bengal, N-1-433 page 410

Title: British India Office Deaths & Burials

Description: Robert Claude Radcliffe Cockburn died 26 Oct 1918 aged 29 in Pachmarhi, Bengal

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URL: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=BL/BIND/D/517005
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Additional: His full name matches TNA and London Gazette. His year of death matches Barkhamsted School War Memorial but not exactly his In Memoriam. His age appears 10 years adrift from 1911 census and school records

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ID: 9501784

Name: Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bengal N-1-272 folio 234

Title: British India Office Births & Baptisms

Description: Robert Claude Radcliffe COCKBURN was born 12 Jan 1899 and baptised at Dibrugarh, Bengal on 12 Mar 1899 son of Robert Charles Radcliffe COCKBURN and his wife Sybil Blanche

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URL: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=BL/BIND/B/279011
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Additional: His full name and year of birth match 1911 census and Berkhamsted School Records

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ID: 9501789

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2005 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/M/1897/4/AZ/000072/240

Additional: His parents' marriage to obtain his mother's maiden name

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9501805

Name: also see SEE AB 114 HQ PACHMAHI

Title: GRO British armed forces and overseas death indices WW1

Description: added in handwriting at the bottom of the typewritten page without a year of death but stathis age was 19.

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URL: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=BMD%2FOVS%2FDARM%2F000256&parentid=BMD%2FOVS%2FDARM%2F000256%2F138
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Additional: His name and age match Berkhamsted School records and 1911 census. GRO record confirms that his was a Army Death

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ID: 9501815

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/B/1902/4/AZ/000117/163

Additional: His brother is recorded at the same school in Brighton in 1911. This is his birth certificate to see where the family was living in 1903

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9501822

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

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UPP: GBC/1901/0008889652

Additional: He is a visitor with both his parents at his maternal grandmother's house in Willesden. She was born in Cape Colony, South Africa

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9502078

Title: Berkamstedian In Memoriam

Description: Lieutenant Robert Claude Radcliffe COCKBURN, born 12th Jan 1899, died of influenza 25th Nov 1918 serving in the Wiltshire Regiment attached Indian Army. He attended Berkhamsted School from Jan 1912 to Dec 1915 boarding in Incents.

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Additional: Matches GRO officers' death certificates in India

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