Lives of the First World War
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Born 1895
Died 1970
British Army VAD British Red Cross Society Fargo Military Hospital, Salisbury Plain
British Army VAD Nurse Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service No 4 General Hospital, France
More about Margaret Edith Basford -
Born 1878
Died 1921
Royal Navy Acting Warrant Victualling Officer H.M.S. "Queen Elizabeth"
More about John Henry Bell -
Born 1882
British Army C/5616 Private Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 2nd. Batallion
British Army 2107 Private Royal Army Medical Corps 21 Field Ambulance
Royal Navy 365670 Sapphire II
More about William Henry Boorman -
Born 1891
Died 1938
British Army Lieutenant Royal Irish Regiment
British Army Captain Royal Irish Regiment
More about Kenneth Foulkes -
Born 1887
Died 1918
British Army 6775 Private London Regiment
British Army 323574 Rifleman London Regiment 6th (City of London) Battalion (Rifles).
More about John Olver -
Born 1882
Died 1917
Royal Navy 5118 2nd Corporal Royal Marines Divisional Engineers Deal
More about Thomas Alfred Wing -
Born 1888
Died 1916
Royal Navy 271709 Engine Room Artificer 5th Class HMSs Tenedos, Sappho, Egmont, Queen
Royal Navy 271709 Acting Engine Room Artificer 4th Class HMS Queen
Royal Navy 271709 Engine Room Artificer 4th Class HMSs Queen, Vivid II, Leander,Forth, Egmont
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More about Samuel David Mitchell Fitzwater -
Born 1871
Died 1940
British Army 78258 Company Serjeant Major Royal Garrison Artillery
British Army SR/3127 then 278127 Warrant Officer Class II Royal Garrison Artillery
More about George Edward Bowhay -
Born 1869
Died 1915
Royal Navy 158112 Chief Engine Room Artificer 1st Class HMS Goliath
More about Alfred Albert Patten -
Born 1891
Died 1917
British Army GS/62394 Private Royal Fusiliers 9th Btn
More about Albert Lear Soper -
Born 1885
Died 1917
Royal Navy 213650
Royal Navy Able Seaman HMS Mary Rose
More about William John Blackwood -
Born 1894
Died 1916
Royal Navy L547 Officers Steward 2nd Class HMSs Assistance, Hecla
Royal Navy L547 Officers Steward 3rd Class HMS Dominion
Royal Navy L547 Officers Cook 3rd class HMS Britannia
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More about William Luxton Kelley -
Born 1886
Died 1918
British Army 23983 Private Devonshire Regiment
British Army 27089 Private Somerset Light Infantry 3rd Battalion
More about Richard Elliott -
Born 1895
Died 1916
British Army 3942 Private Middlesex Regiment 2/8th Battalion
British Army 3942 Private Middlesex 10th Battalion
British Army 3942 Private Middlesex 2/8th Battalion
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More about Ernest William Band -
Born 1897
Died 1915
British Army 9423 Private Gloucestershire Regiment
British Army 9423 Lance Corporal Gloucestershire Regiment "D" Coy. 2nd Bn.
More about Percival Cyril Fitzpatrick -
Born 1865
Died 1915
Royal Navy 132020 Chief Armourer HMS Goliath
More about John William Brown -
Born 1871
British Army 330190 Pioneer Royal Engineers
More about William John Trethewy -
Born 1874
Died 1955
British Army Lieutenant Labour Corps
British Army 938 Honourable Artillery Company 104th Provisional, 3rd Battalion
More about George Edward Russell Patey -
Born 1864
Died 1915
Royal Navy 108554 Petty Officer 1st Class HMS Heroic
More about James Marks -