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13th Company, 5th Division MGC [1]

172nd Overseas [1]

177th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery [1]

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Royal Marine Light Infantry: Plymouth Division [1]

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Royal Naval College, Osborne [1]

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Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) [1]

Training Reserve [1]

Worcestershire Regiment [1]

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British Army [16]

Royal Navy [6]

Australian Imperial Force [5]

Canadian Expeditionary Force [3]

Indian Army [2]

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Military Service [32]

Merchant Navy [2]

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United Kingdom [7]

Sri Lanka [1]

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Colombo [22] Colombo, Ceylon [9] Ceylon, Colombo Resident [1] Colombo Ceylon [1] Colombo, formerly Ceylon, now [1] Colombo,Ceylon. [1] Kelvin Gerve, Colombo [1]

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Machine Gun Corps [3] Canadian Army Medical Corps [2] Middlesex Regiment [2] Royal Army Medical Corps [2] Royal Marine Artillery [2] 1/1st Gurkha Rifles [1] 13th Company, 5th Division MGC [1] 172nd Overseas [1] 177th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery [1] 31st Punjabis [1] A.D.C. (extra) to Rt. Hon. Lord J. Pentland, G.C.I.E., Governor, Madras, India (on secondment from Grenadier Guards) [1] Army Service Corps [1] Britannia [1] Ceylon Engineer Volunteers [1] Coldstream Guards [1] East Lancashire Regiment [1] GOC. Sirhind Brigade [1] Grenadier Guards [1] HMS Collingwood [1] HMS THUNDERER [1] HMS Venerable [1] King's Royal Rifle Corps [1] Lincolnshire Regiment [1] Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) [1] Mercantile Marine [1] Punjabis [1] Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders [1] Royal Field Artillery [1] Royal Garrison Artillery [1] Royal Marine Light Infantry: Chatham Division [1] Royal Marine Light Infantry: Plymouth Division [1] Royal Marines Band - HMS TIGER [1] Royal Naval College, Osborne [1] Royal Navy [1] Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) [1] Training Reserve [1] Worcestershire Regiment [1]

Service

British Army [16] Royal Navy [6] Australian Imperial Force [5] Canadian Expeditionary Force [3] Indian Army [2] Other Empire Force [2] Air Force (RAF/RFC) [1]

Last name first letter

C [6] L [4] M [4] S [3] W [3] A [2] B [2] H [2] O [2] D [1] F [1] I [1] K [1] N [1] P [1] R [1] T [1]

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Military Service [32] Merchant Navy [2]

Country

United Kingdom [7] Sri Lanka [1]

Leopold Britten Mason

Born 1884

Died 1919

British Army 62792 Private Machine Gun Corps 3rd Reserve Battalion

British Army Middlesex Regiment 6th Battalion (Reserve)

British Army 62792 Private 13th Company, 5th Division MGC

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Ralph Henry Volrelin Cavendish

Born 1887

Died 1968

British Army Captain Grenadier Guards

British Army Acting Major Grenadier Guards

British Army Second Lieutenant Grenadier Guards

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Basil Arthur Horsfall

Born 1887

Died 1918

Other Empire Force Ceylon Engineer Volunteers

British Army Second Lieutenant East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion

British Army Second Lieutenant East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion attached 11th Battalion

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Frederick Duncan Campbell

Born 1883

Died 1950

Canadian Expeditionary Force Lieutenant 172nd Overseas

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Guy Campbell

Born 1887

Died 1918

Royal Navy Acting Paymaster

Royal Navy Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander HMS Venerable

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Charles William Poling

Born 1881

Died 1914

Royal Navy 8476 Bombardier Royal Marine Artillery HMS Good Hope

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Neville Raymond Stevenson Carter

Born 1880

Died 1918

Canadian Expeditionary Force 526511

Canadian Expeditionary Force 526511 Private Canadian Army Medical Corps

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Harry Noel Leslie Renton

Born 1895

Died 1915

British Army Lieutenant King's Royal Rifle Corps 9th (Service) Battalion

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James Hay Mcinnes Skinner

Born 1892

Died 1962

British Army Second Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps

British Army Captain Machine Gun Corps

British Army Second Lieutenant Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

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Arthur Stanley Cantrell

Born 1883

Died 1954

Royal Navy Acting Colonel Commandant

Royal Navy Captain RMA HMS Collingwood

Royal Navy Lieutenant Colonel Royal Marine Artillery

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James Milford Sutherland Brunker, K

Born 1854

Died 1942

Indian Army Major General GOC. Sirhind Brigade

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Edwin Nelson Davis

Born 1896

Died 1970

British Army 2156 Private Royal Army Medical Corps

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Louis Noel Francis Brown

Born 1892

British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery

British Army Acting Major 177th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery

British Army Major 177th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery

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Charles James O'sullivan

Australian Imperial Force 849

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Percival Douglas Fiddian

Australian Imperial Force 615

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James Loos

Australian Imperial Force 1166

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Arthur Henry Christian

Born 1863

Died 1926

Royal Navy Naval Cadet Britannia

Royal Navy Midshipman Royal Navy

Royal Navy Lieutenant

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Frederic Alexander Waldock

Born 1898

Died 1959

British Army 004257 Royal Field Artillery

British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery

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Sydney Frank Mcmillan

Australian Imperial Force 1994

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Albert Eric Loos

Australian Imperial Force 7749

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