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Military Service [99]

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People [278] Stories Communities

Place of birth

Scarborough, Yorkshire, England [178] Scarborough England [94] Scarborough Yorkshire England [3] Scarborough, England [1] Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. [1] Scarborough,Yorkshire, England. [1]

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Royal Naval Reserve [2] 11th Brigade [1] 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F. [1] 2nd York and Lancaster Regiment [1] Australian Infantry, A.I.F. [1] Dragoon Guards [1] Fishery Reserve [1] Fishery Reserve - Steam Trawler "Ethelwulf" (North Shields) [1] Guards Machine Gun Regiment [1] Mercantile Marine (Fishing Fleet) [1] Mercantile Marine (Merchant Navy) [1] Royal Engineers Newark Depot [1] Royal Horse Guards [1] Women's Army Auxiliary Corps [1] York and Lancaster Regiment [1]

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Australian Imperial Force [94] British Army [5] Other Empire Force [2] Royal Navy [2]

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S [36] W [34] C [33] B [21] H [21] P [16] G [15] M [15] R [14] T [11] A [10] N [9] D [8] J [8] F [7] L [6] E [5] O [5] K [3] I [1]

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Merchant Navy [179] Military Service [99]

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United Kingdom [3]

George Christopher Tate

Australian Imperial Force 126

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James Herbert Garbutt

Australian Imperial Force 1247

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Herbert Mawman

Australian Imperial Force 399

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Frederick Winn Walker

Australian Imperial Force

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Arthur Sydney Drummond

Australian Imperial Force 6752

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Henry Austin Haythorne

Australian Imperial Force 1492

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David Robinson Coulson

Australian Imperial Force 14678

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William Whelan

Australian Imperial Force 1755

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Herbert Ambler

Australian Imperial Force 3454

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Nathan Fletcher

Australian Imperial Force 2732

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William Francis Lister

Australian Imperial Force 1913

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Donald Sackville Bain

Australian Imperial Force 4134

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Frederick Metcalf

Australian Imperial Force 738

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Claud Butler Brockwell

Australian Imperial Force 3018

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John Henry Colley

Australian Imperial Force 5075

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George Thorpe

Australian Imperial Force 1182

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Thomas Ralph Steel

Australian Imperial Force 3847

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Edward Cattle

Australian Imperial Force 2356A

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John Reginald Allan

Born 1896

British Army 1831 Trooper Royal Horse Guards

British Army 5107 Trooper Guards Machine Gun Regiment

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John Stewart

Australian Imperial Force 1758

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