Lives of the First World War

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ID: 834278

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=D1821545
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UPP: GBM/MCI/0835072

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7040336

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/164237/
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UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/71865

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Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 7900686

Title: Birth Record

Description: Reg. Q3 Wayland District. Censuses say Born Gt Hockham. Baptised Gt. Hockham 26 July 1881

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Additional: He is one of 11 WW1 casualties on my village RofH. Also listed are his brothers W Bertie & George A.

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ID: 7900690

Title: Pte F W Clarke photograph

Description: He had been a professional soldier before WW1. I think this is c.1901 - Boer War uniform

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ID: 7900692

Name: Norfolk Record Office PD 486/6

Reference: NRO

Title: Baptism Record

Description: Gt & Lt Hockham Baptism Register 1856 - 1903 p.56 entry 447. Bapt'd July 26 1881 Frederic[sic] Walter Clark[sic] (son of James & Emma, abode Hockham.

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ID: 7900695

Title: Killed in Action

Description: From Thetford & Watton Times 4 Aug 1917. His family had moved to Shropham before 1891 & remained there. Frederick was a soldier in 1901 & a farm labourer in Shropham in 1911. His father died in 1906.

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ID: 7900699

Title: Gravestone

Description: Ramscappelle Road Military Cemetery 11.D.7. 18013 PRIVATE/ F.W.CLARKE/ NORTHAMPTONSHIRE REGT./ 6TH JULY 1917. AGE 36./ REST IN PEACE. CWGC CERTIFICATE 'In Memory of Private F Clarke 18013, 1st Bn., Northamptonshire Regiment who died age 36 on 06 July 1917. Son of James and Emma Jane Clarke, of Shropham, Attleborough, Norfolk. Remembered with honour Ramscappelle Road Military Cemetery. photo from TWGPP with my thanks.

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Additional: He was the only casualty in his Bn on that day. The War Diary says they were not in action but were holding the line.

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ID: 7900825

Title: Shropham, Norfolk RofH

Description: 11 WW1 casualties, Pte F W Clarke is 4th from top.

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Additional: Situated on N Wall inside Parish Church.

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ID: 7900826

Title: Tower of London RofH

Description: HIs name was read on 4 Oct 2014 at the Sunset Ceremony.

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ID: 7945113

Title: Short Biography

Description: Birth, Baptism, Family, Service & Death information

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Additional: Part of my research into the Shropham Roll of Honour

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ID: 9647074

Name: England and Wales Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915

Title: Birth Index Record (Ancestry)

Description: Frederick Walter Clarke Reg. Q3 1881 Wayland district, Norfolk. vol 4b page 255

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URL: https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=dqE5489&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&db=freebmdbirth&gsfn=Frederick%20Walter&gsln=Clarke&cp=0&gskw=wayland&msbdy=1881&msbpn__ftp=norfolk,%20england,%20united%20kingdom&msbpn=5276&new=1&rank=1&uidh=9i6&redir=false&gss=angs-d&pcat=34&fh=0&h=37839168&recoff=&ml_rpos=1
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ID: 9647120

Name: Norfolk, Church of England Marriages & Banns, 1754 - 1940

Title: Marriage record of parents, Ancestry

Description: Shropham Church November 2? 1875 James Clarke, bachelor, Engine Driver (ie threshing machine). Emma Jane Macrow spinster. Both of full age and of Shropham.

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URL: https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=61043&h=306416&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=dqE5490&_phstart=successSource
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ID: 9647420

Name: British Army Service Records

Title: Army Service 1900 FindmyPast

Description: Enlisted 28 May 1900. Norfolk Reg't 7yrs (later changed to 8 yrs) with the Colours /5 Reserve. 18yrs 11months, 5' 61/2", Chest 331/2" max 35". Fresh Complexion, Hazel eyes, brown Hair. He served in the Boer War and received Medals with clasps for Transvaal, Orange Free State and Cape Colony. Transferred to the Reserve 27 May 1908.

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URL: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBM/WO97/4533/373864
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