Lives of the First World War

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ID: 831287

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.

UPP: GBM/MCI/0832081

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7332117

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.

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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/578679

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Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 7901491

Name: Birth registration, Bernard Clarke, Jan-Mar 1885, Stow, Suffolk 4a 747

Title: Birth record in Free BMD database

Description: Transcribed GRO Indexes. Birth registration, Bernard Clarke, Jan-Mar 1885, Stow, Suffolk 4a 747

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ID: 7901495

Name: Census 1891 England, Suffolk, Tostock, District 13, accessed via Ancestry

Title: Census 1891 England, Suffolk, Tostock

Description: The census information recorded Bernard Clarke (aged 6, scholar) at home with his father, Samuel (50, general labourer); his mother, Ann E. (39); and siblings, Harry (17, general labourer), Ernest (14, scholar), Samuel (13, scholar), Arthur (11, scholar), Edlen (10), Ethel (7), Lily (3) and Walter (2). They lived at the Green, Tostock, Sufolk. His parents and sibling were all born in Tostock. The census details were as of the night of 5/6 April 1891.

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ID: 7901502

Name: Census 1901 England, Yorkshire, Terrington with Wiganthorpe, District 1, accessed via Ancestry

Title: Census 1901 England, Yorkshire, Terrington with Wiganthorpe

Description: The census information recorded Bernard Clarke (aged 16, general farm servant) residing with John Swann (47, farmer), John's wife Alice M. Swann (42) and general servant domestic, Lilly Jackson (18). They lived at Cotterill Farm, Terrington, Yorkshire. The census details were as of the night of 31 March/1 April 1901.

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ID: 7901547

Name: Census 1911 England, Surrey, Aldershot, District 13, accessed via Ancestry

Title: Census 1911 England, Surrey, Aldershot

Description: The census information recorded Bernard Clark (aged 26, born in Tostock, Suffolk) serving as a Private in the 2nd Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment and based at Barrosa Barracks, Stanhope Lines, Aldershot, Surrey.

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ID: 7901572

Name: Marriage registration, Bernard Clarke and Else S. Cousins, Jul-Sep 1915, Chesterton 3b 1323

Title: Marriage record in Free BMD database

Description: Transcribed GRO Indexes, Marriage registration, Bernard Clarke and Else S. Cousins, Jul-Sep 1915, Chesterton 3b 1323

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ID: 7901575

Name: Cambridgeshire Family History Society

Title: Trumpington Parish Marriage Registers

Description: Entry in the Trumpington Marriage Register 1915: Jul 12 CLARKE Bernard 30 bachelor Pte 2 Suffolk Regt of London Rd son of Samuel steward - COUSINS Elsie Snowdrop 23 spinster of London Rd daughter of Herbert labourer by licence witnesses: Herbert COUSINS, Lily CLARKE

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ID: 7901582

Name: Cambridgeshire Family History Society

Title: Trumpington Parish Burial Registers

Description: Entry in the Trumpington Burial Register 1915: Apr 12 COUSINS Bernard Cyril Clarke of London Road, Trumpington 8 months

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ID: 7901589

Name: Birth registration, Cyril Bernard Clarke Cousins, Jul-Sep 1914, Cosford 2a 1788a

Title: Birth record of son in Free BMD database

Description: Transcribed GRO Indexes. Birth registration, Cyril Bernard Clarke Cousins, Jul-Sep 1914, Cosford 2a 1788a

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ID: 7901614

Name: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Description: The CWGC record indicated that Private Bernard Clarke, Regtl no. 6745, served with the 2nd Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment, and he died on 18 June 1917. His name was entered on Bay 4 of the Arras Memorial at Arras, Pas de Calais, France. His next of kin details were entered in the memorial register: son of Samuel and Eliza Clarke, of "Honeysuckles", Tostock, Bury St. Edmunds; husband of Elsie S. Clarke, of London Road, Trumpington, Cambridge

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ID: 7901623

Name: British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920, access via Ancestry

Title: British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920

Description: Entry for Bernard Clarke, Private serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment, Regtl No. 6745, was entitled to the award of the 14 Star and clasp, the Victory Medal and the British War Medal. He was killed in action on 18 June 1917.

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ID: 8069795

Name: Application Number 6423833-1

Reference: Copy obtained from the General Register Office

Title: Birth certificate of son, born 27 January 1917

Description: This is a copy of the full birth certificate of Victor Francis Percival Clarke, born on 27 January 1917, at London Road, Trumpington. His father was George Bernard Clarke, Private 6745, 2nd Suffolk Regiment. His father's occupation was previously a Butler, Valet (domestic). Victor's mother was Elsie Snowdrop Clarke of London Road, Trumpington.

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ID: 8070190

Title: Bernard Clarke's widow, Elsie Snowdrop Clarke

Description: Photograph of Elsie Snowdrop Clarke, nee Cousins, standing outside her home on London Road (now known as Trumpington High Street), Trumpington. The picture was loaned by Bernard's son, Vic Clarke, to Shirley Brown and was published in Trumpington Local History Group's 'Trumpington: Past & Present', Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing Limited, 2003, p.76.

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ID: 8523593

Name: Cambridge Daily News Thursday 26 July 1917 p.4 via Brit. Newspaper Archive

Title: Cambridge Daily News Thursday 26 July 1917 p.4

Description: Newspaper entry: "The Official Lists. The following local casualties are announced in the official lists issued on Wednesday night: Killed. Suffolk R.-- Pte B. Clarke (Trumpington), ..."

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