Lives of the First World War

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ID: 9437

Reference: WO372/1

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/0009446

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7612770

Title: CWGC record

Description: Details of the cemetery where Captain Alexander is commemorated.

Connected by: Viv2034

Additional: Name, rank and military service match medal index card.

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ID: 7612778

Title: War Diary page

Description: War Diary extract from IWM Operation War Diary site.

Connected by: Viv2034

Additional: Actions of Captain Alexander given in War Diary.

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ID: 7612779

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Viv2034

UPP: BMD/B/1887/1/AZ/000008/012

Additional: Surname and initials match medal index card and CWGC record.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 7612783

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 Transcription

Connected by: Viv2034

UPP: BMD/M/1911/3/AZ/000010/146

Additional: Surname and initials match medal index card

Credit: © General Register Office

Source information

ID: 7612785

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Viv2034

UPP: GBC/1901/0016976012

Additional: Surname and initials match medal index card and location matches birth record.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 7616452

Title: Extract from Operation War Diary

Description: Captain Alexander reported as missing in war diary page of the night of 13/14 November 1914

Connected by: Viv2034

Additional: Captain Alexander reported missing after failed attack and 60+ casualties.

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ID: 7618593

Title: Folkestone and District History Society record

Description: Details of family and military service information.

Connected by: Viv2034

URL: http://www.folkestonehistory.org/index.php?page=alister-ralph-speirs-alexander
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Additional: Details about military service match card index details.

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ID: 8908672

Name: ISBN 0 948130 73 3

Title: No Easy Hopes or Lies, The World War I Letters of Lt. Arthur Preston White

Description: Letters of a former school master at Highgate School.

Connected by: Andrew1561

Additional: Page 257, Roll of Honour of the Old Chomelians who died in the First World War, 1914-1918

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ID: 8908699

Name: Page 2457

Title: London Gazette 24 March 1914

Description: Indian Medical Service Lieutenants to be Captains 28 January 1914

Connected by: Andrew1561

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28815/page/2547/data.pdf
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Additional: Shows promotion of Lieutenant Alexander to Captain in the Indian Medical Service

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ID: 8908711

Name: The 2nd-7th Gurkhas in the action at Tor, Sinai, on 12th February 1915

Title: The Gurkhas in Sinai

Description: Capt. Alistair Ralph Spiers Alexander, IMS, had been Medical Officer of 2-7 GR since the battalion left Quetta in October 1914. During the defence of Kut, serving in the trenches with 2-7 GR, he was wounded by shell-fire and succumbed to his wounds on 9 Feb 1916. He was interred in the Kut War Cemetery.

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URL: http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/489643.html
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ID: 8908724

Name: De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour Vol 3

Title: Spiers - Alexander AR Captain Indian Army

Description: Obituary

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URL: http://ww1photos.com/DeRuv/Vol3/Spiers-AlexanderARCapt.html
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ID: 8908760

Title: University College Hospital War Memorial

Description: Mentioned

Connected by: Andrew1561

URL: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/191294/
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