Lives of the First World War
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Born 1891
Died 1917
Royal Navy R/34 Able Seaman Royal Naval Reserve Division Howe Battalion
Royal Navy
British Army Reserve
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More about Arthur John Brading -
Born 1892
Died 1961
Royal Navy K5572 Stoker - 2nd Class HMS Victory 2
Royal Navy K5572 Stoker - 2nd Class HMS Renown
Royal Navy K5572 Stoker - 2nd Class HMS Victory 2
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More about Harry George Treagus -
Born 1883
Died 1958
British Army 21994 Private Coldstream Guards
British Army 21994 Private Coldstream Guards 3rd Btn Coldstream Guards
British Army 21994 Guardsman Coldstream Guards Guards Garrison Company
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More about Henry White Holmes -
Born 1881
Died 1918
British Army SE20273 Private Army Veterinary Corps
More about Ethelred Arthur Osgood Gould -
Born 1861
Died 1918
British Army 20686 Private Hampshire Regiment 4th Supernumery Company, 5th Battalion
British Army 4956 Private 12th Lancers
British Army 31529 Private Royal Defence Corps
More about Joseph Edward Marshman -
Born 1883
Died 1959
Royal Navy R/6406 Ordinary Seaman Royal Naval Division 3rd Reserve Battalion
Royal Navy R/6406 Able Seaman Royal Naval Division Hood Battalion
More about John William H Houldey -
Born 1895
Died 1942
British Army WR/257615 Sapper Royal Engineers Railway Operating Train Division
British Army 188971 Sapper Royal Engineers Railway Operating Train Division
British Army 257615 Sapper RE Railway Operating Train Division Royal Engineers Railway Operating Division
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More about Maurice Victor Parsons -
Born 1895
Died 1950
British Army 9779 Private Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
British Army 49084 Private Machine Gun Corps
British Army 9779 & 49084 Private and A/Corporal Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry & MGC 1st & 12th
More about Joseph Thomas Martyn -
Born 1894
Died 1921
British Army 235452 Private Gordon Highlanders
British Army T518975 Private Royal Engineers
More about George Albert Harvey -
Born 1870
British Army 22453 Sergeant Royal Engineers Telegraph Battalion
Canadian Expeditionary Force Temporary Honorary Lieutenant Royal Canadian Engineers
Canadian Expeditionary Force Temporary Quartermaster and Honorary Captain Royal Canadian Engineers
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More about Charles Shergold -
Born 1898
Died 1970
British Army 15128 Private Hampshire 1st Battalion
British Army 15128 Private Hampshire Regiment 1st Battalion
More about Percy Eastland -
Born 1886
Died 1918
Royal Navy
Royal Navy 362474
Royal Navy 362474
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More about James Henry Simmonds -
Born 1885
Died 1951
British Army 131114 Sapper Royal Engineers 233rd Field Company
British Army 131114 Lance Corporal Royal Engineers 233rd Field Company
More about Arthur Henry Froome -
Born 1893
Died 1915
British Army 3763 Private Irish Guards 1st Battalion
British Army Private Irish Guards Reserves
British Army 3763 Private Irish Guards 1st Battalion
More about Guy Sidney Raftery -
Born 1883
Died 1942
Royal Navy 344098 Carpenter Crew
Royal Navy 344098 Leading Carpenter Crew
Royal Navy 344098 Shipwright Class II
More about Henry Smith Houldey -
Born 1895
Died 1917
British Army 13961 Private Hampshire Regiment
British Army 13961 Private Hampshire Regiment 14th (Service) Battalion
British Army 13961 Private Hampshire Regiment
More about Alfred Pelham Peachey -
Born 1894
Died 1918
British Army Lieutenant Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1st Battalion
More about Rowland William Theodore Thorowgood -
Born 1884
Died 1915
British Army 3/9173 Serjeant Hampshire Regiment 1st Battalion
British Army 3/9173 Serjeant Hampshire Regiment 1st Battalion
More about John Francis Cleall -
Born 1882
Died 1918
Air Force (RAF/RFC) 134406 Corporal Royal Air Force School of Technical Training (Holton)
More about William Yates -
Born 1895
Died 1917
British Army 8286 Air Mechanic 2nd Class Royal Flying Corps No 1st Reserve Squadron
More about Francis Edgar Jenkins