Lives of the First World War

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ID: 909068

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=D1896395
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UPP: GBM/MCI/0909922

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9318145

Title: Lionel Bertram Collis

Description: Lionel in civvies

Connected by: Amy127

Additional: This is my 2x Great Grandad's brother.

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ID: 9318170

Name: Lionel B Collis

Title: Commemorative Certificate on the CWGC Website

Description: Lionel B Collis, son of Sophia G Collis and Alfred Collis. Serre Road Cemetery No.2. Somme, France. Died: 1st April 1918 (age 22).

Connected by: Amy127

URL: https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/608409/collis,-lionel-bertram/
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Additional: Lionel's surname, regiment, date and place that he died, parents names and places match family history records.

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ID: 9318230

Name: 1895 S Quarter in STURMINSTER Volume 05A Page 214

Title: Lionel Collis Birth Certificate GRO link

Description: GRO website link to purchase PDF/certificate download.

Connected by: Amy127

URL: https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp
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Additional: The evidence matches family history research.

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ID: 9318235

Title: Pte Lionel Bertram Collis

Description: In uniform

Connected by: Amy127

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ID: 9372474

Reference: gbm_wo363-4

Title: British Army Service Records 1914-1920 Transcription

Connected by: Paul141391

UPP: GBM/WO363-4/7303411/50/1071

Additional: lionel Bertram Collis is the brother of my wife's great grandfather, his medals and photographs are in a family collection.

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 9448056

Name: See: pages 19-21.

Title: WWI Memorial Bench Edition of the Okeford Fitzpaine Magazine

Description: "The bench was unveiled... exactly 100 years to the day that Private Lionel Bertram Collis was killed in France aged 22."

Connected by: Amy127

URL: http://www.fippennynews.co.uk/print-edition-apr-2018/
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ID: 9448085

Name: L. B. Collis (second name on the list). There are further details below.

Title: War Memorial, Okeford Fitzpaine

Description: This is a website link to a picture of the war memorial at Okeford Fitzpaine in Dorset. This is the place where L.B. Collis is remembered alongside other men in the parish. All research on this website page is copyright to DORSETWW1.CO.UK.

Connected by: Amy127

URL: http://dorsetinthegreatwar.co.uk/okefordfitzpaine.html
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Additional: The person's names and details match the known facts we have for this soldier.

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ID: 9469952

Title: WWI Memorial Okeford Fitzpaine

Description: This is a photo of the WWI memorial in the churchyard at Okeford Fitzpaine.

Connected by: Amy127

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ID: 9469970

Title: A memorial rock for Lionel Bertram Collis

Description: Photograph taken of the WWI memorial in 2018.

Connected by: Amy127

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ID: 9469976

Title: WWI Memorial Bench 2018

Description: Photograph taken of the WWI Memorial Bench in Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset.

Connected by: Amy127

Additional: This is the place that LB Collis is remembered. His name also appears with further information in the WWI book attached to the bench.

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ID: 9469989

Title: LB Collis is remembered on this headstone.

Description: This gravestone is in the churchyard at Okeford Fitzpaine. His parents were Alfred and Sophia Collis.

Connected by: Amy127

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