Lives of the First World War
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Born 1887
Died 1916
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
British Army 4 Company Sergeant Major Royal Sussex Regiment 12th Battalion
British Army 4 Acting Regimental Sergeant Major Royal Sussex Regiment 12th Battalion
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More about Nelson Victor Carter -
Born 1881
Died 1952
British Army 4285 Private Dragoon Guards
British Army 2DG/4285 Private Dragoon Guards
British Army 4285 Lance Corporal Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) 2nd Battalion
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More about William George Durrant -
Born 1884
Died 1960
British Army 328075 Private Cambridgeshire Regiment 1st Battalion
More about Albert Gordon Medhurst -
Born 1897
Died 1990
Royal Navy Second Lieutenant Royal Marines
Royal Navy Lieutenant Royal Marines
Royal Navy Captain Royal Marines
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More about Humphry Thomas Tollemache Bart. -
Born 1888
Died 1916
British Army SD/388 Serjeant Royal Sussex Regiment 11th Battalion
More about Sidney Ware Akehurst -
Born 1875
Died 1949
British Army Army Reserves
British Army Private The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) 3rd (Reserve) Battalion
British Army G/26615 Private The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) 1st (Home Service) Garrison Battalion
More about Benjamin Shadwell -
Born 1892
Died 1922
British Army T327742 Private Army Service Corps Mechanical Transport Depot Bulford [Salisbury Plain]
More about Wilfred Froome -
Born 1887
Died 1965
British Army GS/19614 Private Royal Fusiliers 26th Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant Lancashire Fusiliers
More about Frank Victor Jacoby -
Born 1897
Died 1918
British Army G/54369 Corporal Middlesex Regiment
British Army 5245 Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army 40027 Corporal Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment) 1st Battalion
More about John Turley Parish -
Born 1896
Died 1989
British Army 35867 Worker Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps
More about Vera Lois Mockett -
Born 1877
Died 1917
British Army Lieutenant Sussex Yeomanry
British Army Captain Sussex Yeomanry
More about Alexander Boswell Campbell -
Born 1896
Died 1954
Air Force (RAF/RFC) 13131 Worker Women's Royal Air Force 78 Squadron RAF Hornchurch, Essex
More about Sibell Agnes Mayhewe -
Born 1886
Died 1949
British Army Captain Royal Army Medical Corps
British Army Major Royal Army Medical Corps
British Army Captain RAMC
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More about Henry Anstey Cookson -
Born 1876
Died 1916
British Army 29019 Private Essex Regiment
British Army 40535 Private Bedfordshire Regiment 7th Battalion
More about Amos Hickmore -
Born 1886
Died 1916
British Army Private Royal Dublin Fusiliers
British Army 40487 Gunner Royal Field Artillery C Battery
More about Albert French -
Born 1892
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 6th (Service) Battalion
British Army Lieutenant Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 6th (Service) Battalion attached 8th (Service) Battalion
More about John Eadred Tollemache -
Born 1896
Died 1920
Royal Navy Boy Sailor
Royal Navy J26800 Acting Air mechanic Class 1
Air Force (RAF/RFC) 313941 Sergeant Royal Air Force 216th Squadron
More about Edmund West Wadey Dfm -
Born 1895
Died 1971
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army 12819 Private Leicestershire Regiment 8th Battalion
British Army 12819 Temporary Second Lieutenant Royal Sussex Regiment 3rd (reserve) battalion
More about Isaac Leonard Read -
Born 1894
Died 1917
British Army Second Lieutenant Hampshire Regiment
British Army Lieutenant Hampshire Regiment
British Army 2nd Lieutenant Hampshire Regiment 6th Battalion
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More about Claude Alexander Huskisson -
Born 1883
Died 1939
Royal Navy 13658 Royal Marine Light Infantry: Chatham Division
More about John Albert Thomas Allfrey