Lives of the First World War

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ID: 9648932

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

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

Connected by: Jane31029

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/267034

Additional: The seed record for this life story, confirming his war service in the RAF.

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 9648953

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

Connected by: Jane31029

UPP: BMD/D/1918/4/AZ/001819/019

Additional: His name fits. The Registration District and date fit with information in his CWGC Casualty Record.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9648970

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Jane31029

UPP: BMD/B/1901/1/AZ/000640/028

Additional: His name fits. The registration date fits with his age shown in his CWGC Casualty record.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9648986

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Jane31029

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/07775/0073/3

Additional: His name and age fit. His parents' names and their abode in Aldbury fit with his CWGC Casualty record.

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9649162

Name: 1918. p77, no 616, Cecil Charles Palmer Wilkin

Title: Hertfordshire Burials at St John the Baptist Aldbury

Description: Cecil Charles Palmer Wilkin, abode The Military Hospital, Tarrant Monkton, Blandford, buried at St John the Baptist, Aldbury, 4th November 1918, aged 17.

Connected by: Jane31029

URL: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBPRS%2FHERT%2F004948026%2F00416&parentid=GBPRS%2FD%2F72549550%2F1
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Additional: His name fits. His age and his death in Blandford are supported by his CWGC Casualty Record.

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ID: 9649284

Name: Aldbury (WMR 14572) Wilkin, Cecil

Title: War Memorial Register Transcription

Description: The Memorial in Aldbury Peace Memorial Institute, Hertfordshire, records his name - Cecil Wilkin - but no details of his service.

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URL: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBM/IWM-MEMO/0399972
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Additional: His name fits. This fits with his CWGC Casualty Record, which confirms his burial in Aldbury.

Source information

ID: 9649324

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Jane31029

UPP: GBC/1901/0012253606

Additional: His name fits. His mother's name fits their 1911 Census. Their abode and his age - 3 months - fits his Birth record.

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 9649386

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Jane31029

UPP: BMD/B/1907/1/AZ/000636/302

Additional: Records the birth of Cecil's sister Beatrix. Her mother's maiden name is given, which matches Cecil's mother. The Registration District fits with their abode in Aldbury. Her age fits with the family's 1911 Census return, in which she is recorded as Beatrice.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 9649429

Name: 70 Sherborne Way, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, Schedule 34.1

Title: 1939 Register entry Sister Beatrice

Description: 1939 Register entry for Cecil's sister Beatrice, b. 27th December 1906, a Secretary, unmarried, living at 70 Sherborne Way, Rickmansworth.

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URL: https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=TNA%2FR39%2F1621%2F1621H%2F003%2F26
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Additional: Her name, using Beatrice as in the 1911 Census, fits Cecil's sister. Her date of birth in late December 1906 fits her Birth registration in the first Quarter of 1907.

Source information

ID: 9649544

Name: Reference WMO250172

Title: War Memorials Online - Aldbury Peace Memorial Institute

Description: Information on the Aldbury Peace Memorial Institute, Toms Hill Road, Aldbury, HP23 5SA, which states: "ldbury Peace Memorial Institute was built by public subscription to create a home for those returning from the front after the First World War. The first action of those returning was to create their own tribute to the fallen by raising their names on a slate which is still hung inside the hall. There is a stone on the outside wall to inform passers by of the meaning of this hall but this was added much later. The Hall is now used by the village folk in order to raise revenue to maintain the building which is on good condition. The property is a registered charity..."

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URL: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/250172/
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Additional: Cecil is one of the 26 men named here.

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ID: 9649672

Title: St John the Baptist's Church Aldbury

Description: St John the Baptist's Church, where Cecil Wilkin is buried in the Churchyard.

Connected by: Jane31029

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