Lives of the First World War

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ID: 894716

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.

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UPP: GBM/MCI/0895556

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9380906

Title: Family's WW1 Memorial Plaque for William Colledge

Description: Memorial Plaque was issued after the First World War to the next-of-kin of all British and Empire service personnel who were killed as a result of the war. The plaques (which could be described as large plaquettes) about 4.75 inches (120 mm) in diameter, were cast in bronze, and came to be known as the "Dead Man’s Penny", because of the similarity in appearance to the much smaller penny coin which itself had a diameter of only 1.215 inches (30.9 mm). 1,355,000 plaques were issued, which used a total of 450 tons of bronze, and continued to be issued into the 1930s to commemorate people who died as a consequence of the war.

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ID: 9380917

Title: Certificate downloaded from https://www.cwgc.org

Description: Buried at Bronfay Farm Military Cemetery, near Bray-sur-Somme, France

Connected by: Alistair142217