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St John, New Brunswick [20]

St John NB [13]

St John [12]

St. John [12]

St John, Cornwall, England [10]

St John, Cornwall [8]

St. John, New Brunswick [7]

Sherborne St John, Hampshire [5]

Cowley St John, Oxford [3]

St John, Jersey, Channel Islands [2]

St John, New Brunswich [2]

Stanton St John, Oxford, Oxfordshire [2]

Terrington St John, Norfolk [2]

129 North John Street, St Rollox, Glasgow [1]

Barford St John, Banbury, Oxfordshire [1]

Berwick St John, Wiltshire [1]

Berwick St John,Wiltshire [1]

Carlton, St John, New Brunswick [1]

Gannow St John [1]

Gulzarbagh, St John, Bengal [1]

Parish of St John, Ladywood, Birmingham [1]

Peasedown St John, Somerset [1]

Peasedown St. John, Somerset [1]

Sherborne St. John. Hampshire. [1]

St John N B [1]

St John, Blackburn [1]

St John, Blackpool, Lancashire [1]

St John, Breconshire [1]

St John, Devon [1]

St John, Middlesborough, Yorkshire [1]

St John, N B [1]

St John, NB [1]

St John, Paddington [1]

St John, St Peters Past, Guernsey [1]

St John, Surrey [1]

St John, Workington, Cumberland [1]

St. John New Brunswick [1]

St. John, Bury, Lancashire [1]

St. John, Kidderminster, Worcs [1]

St. John, Quebec [1]

Stanton St John, Oxford [1]

st john, cornwall [1]

Rank

Private [35]

Nursing Sister [10]

Corporal [8]

Sapper [4]

Second Lieutenant [4]

Lieutenant [3]

Acting Serjeant [2]

Captain [2]

Major [2]

Nursing Sister, Matron [2]

Warrant Officer Class 2 [2]

Battery Sergeant Major [1]

Battery Serjeant Major [1]

Bombardier [1]

Colour Serjeant [1]

Company Quarter Master Serjeant [1]

Cyclist [1]

Driver [1]

Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class [1]

Engine Room Artificer 4th Class [1]

Guardsman [1]

Gunner [1]

Lance Sergeant [1]

Nursing sister [1]

Pioneer [1]

Private Lance Corporal [1]

Sergeant [1]

Serjeant [1]

Shoeing Smith [1]

Staff Serjeant [1]

Unit

Canadian Army Medical Corps [16]

British West Indies Regiment [6]

Hampshire Regiment [5]

The Hampshire Regiment [4]

Army Service Corps [3]

Canadian Infantry [3]

Royal Engineers [3]

Royal Warwickshire Regiment [3]

Canadian Engineers [2]

Hussars [2]

Labour Corps [2]

Tank Corps [2]

19th (Queen Alexander's Own Royal) Hussars [1]

1st Seige Battery [1]

6th King's Shropshire Light Infantry [1]

Army Medical Corps [1]

Army Service Corps General Headquarters [1]

C.F.A. [1]

Canadian Field Artillery [1]

Canadian Garrison Artillery [1]

Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment) [1]

Canadian Infantry(Quebec Regiment) [1]

Canadian Infantry, 20th Bttln [1]

Canadian Railway Troops [1]

Corps of Hussars [1]

East Kent Regiment [1]

East Lancashire Regiment [1]

Grenadier Guards [1]

HMS Lion [1]

HMS Tamar [1]

Harvard Unit [1]

IRISH GUARDS [1]

Jamaica War Contingent [1]

King's Own Scottish Borderers [1]

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry [1]

King's Shropshire Light Infantry [1]

Lancers [1]

Machine Gun Corps [1]

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) [1]

Norfolk Regiment [1]

Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry) [1]

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry [1]

Royal Army Medical Corps [1]

Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force [1]

Royal Fusiliers [1]

Royal Garrison Artillery [1]

Royal Irish Rifles [1]

Royal Jersey Artillery [1]

Royal Jersey Artillery Militia attached Royal Army Service Corps [1]

Royal Marine Artillery [1]

Service

British Army [44]

Canadian Expeditionary Force [44]

Air Force (RAF/RFC) [14]

Australian Imperial Force [7]

Royal Navy [6]

Other Empire Force [3]

Last name first letter

B [16]

P [14]

L [11]

C [9]

M [9]

H [8]

S [8]

R [7]

D [6]

G [5]

J [5]

W [5]

A [4]

F [4]

N [4]

E [3]

T [3]

I [2]

K [2]

Q [2]

Contribution

Military Service [105]

Merchant Navy [15]

Country

United Kingdom [15]

Canada [7]

Panama [1]

United States [1]

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St John, New Brunswick [20] St John NB [13] St John [12] St. John [12] St John, Cornwall, England [10] St John, Cornwall [8] St. John, New Brunswick [7] Sherborne St John, Hampshire [5] Cowley St John, Oxford [3] St John, Jersey, Channel Islands [2] St John, New Brunswich [2] Stanton St John, Oxford, Oxfordshire [2] Terrington St John, Norfolk [2] 129 North John Street, St Rollox, Glasgow [1] Barford St John, Banbury, Oxfordshire [1] Berwick St John, Wiltshire [1] Berwick St John,Wiltshire [1] Carlton, St John, New Brunswick [1] Gannow St John [1] Gulzarbagh, St John, Bengal [1] Parish of St John, Ladywood, Birmingham [1] Peasedown St John, Somerset [1] Peasedown St. John, Somerset [1] Sherborne St. John. Hampshire. [1] St John N B [1] St John, Blackburn [1] St John, Blackpool, Lancashire [1] St John, Breconshire [1] St John, Devon [1] St John, Middlesborough, Yorkshire [1] St John, N B [1] St John, NB [1] St John, Paddington [1] St John, St Peters Past, Guernsey [1] St John, Surrey [1] St John, Workington, Cumberland [1] St. John New Brunswick [1] St. John, Bury, Lancashire [1] St. John, Kidderminster, Worcs [1] St. John, Quebec [1] Stanton St John, Oxford [1] st john, cornwall [1]

Rank

Private [35] Nursing Sister [10] Corporal [8] Sapper [4] Second Lieutenant [4] Lieutenant [3] Acting Serjeant [2] Captain [2] Major [2] Nursing Sister, Matron [2] Warrant Officer Class 2 [2] Battery Sergeant Major [1] Battery Serjeant Major [1] Bombardier [1] Colour Serjeant [1] Company Quarter Master Serjeant [1] Cyclist [1] Driver [1] Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class [1] Engine Room Artificer 4th Class [1] Guardsman [1] Gunner [1] Lance Sergeant [1] Nursing sister [1] Pioneer [1] Private Lance Corporal [1] Sergeant [1] Serjeant [1] Shoeing Smith [1] Staff Serjeant [1]

Unit

Canadian Army Medical Corps [16] British West Indies Regiment [6] Hampshire Regiment [5] The Hampshire Regiment [4] Army Service Corps [3] Canadian Infantry [3] Royal Engineers [3] Royal Warwickshire Regiment [3] Canadian Engineers [2] Hussars [2] Labour Corps [2] Tank Corps [2] 19th (Queen Alexander's Own Royal) Hussars [1] 1st Seige Battery [1] 6th King's Shropshire Light Infantry [1] Army Medical Corps [1] Army Service Corps General Headquarters [1] C.F.A. [1] Canadian Field Artillery [1] Canadian Garrison Artillery [1] Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment) [1] Canadian Infantry(Quebec Regiment) [1] Canadian Infantry, 20th Bttln [1] Canadian Railway Troops [1] Corps of Hussars [1] East Kent Regiment [1] East Lancashire Regiment [1] Grenadier Guards [1] HMS Lion [1] HMS Tamar [1] Harvard Unit [1] IRISH GUARDS [1] Jamaica War Contingent [1] King's Own Scottish Borderers [1] King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry [1] King's Shropshire Light Infantry [1] Lancers [1] Machine Gun Corps [1] Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) [1] Norfolk Regiment [1] Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry) [1] Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry [1] Royal Army Medical Corps [1] Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force [1] Royal Fusiliers [1] Royal Garrison Artillery [1] Royal Irish Rifles [1] Royal Jersey Artillery [1] Royal Jersey Artillery Militia attached Royal Army Service Corps [1] Royal Marine Artillery [1]

Service

British Army [44] Canadian Expeditionary Force [44] Air Force (RAF/RFC) [14] Australian Imperial Force [7] Royal Navy [6] Other Empire Force [3]

Last name first letter

B [16] P [14] L [11] C [9] M [9] H [8] S [8] R [7] D [6] G [5] J [5] W [5] A [4] F [4] N [4] E [3] T [3] I [2] K [2] Q [2]

Contribution

Military Service [105] Merchant Navy [15]

Country

United Kingdom [15] Canada [7] Panama [1] United States [1]

John Edward Parris

Born 1874

Died 1953

British Army 127133 Pioneer Royal Engineers Signal Company

British Army 127133 Sapper Royal Engineers Signal Company

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Joseph Blackett

Born 1891

Other Empire Force 11054 Private Jamaica War Contingent

British Army 11831 Private British West Indies Regiment 9th Battalion

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Glenn Riggins

Born 1893

Died 1918

British Army WR/319936 Sapper Royal Engineers Inland Water Transport

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William Henry Atcheson

Born 1868

Died 1939

Canadian Expeditionary Force 69010

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Frank Sharples Jones

Born 1896

Died 1915

British Army 511 Private Welsh Guards 1st battalion

British Army 21073 Private Grenadier Guards

British Army 511 Guardsman Welsh Guards 1st Battalion

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Arthur Ware

Born 1894

British Army 9814 Private Hussars

British Army 32816 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment

British Army 41021 Private Royal Irish Rifles

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William Alexander Atchison

Born 1893

Canadian Expeditionary Force 536222

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Robert Whitmarsh

Born 1879

Died 1954

Air Force (RAF/RFC) 57681

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Fergus Herbert Elgin Mackain

Born 1886

Died 1924

British Army 4299 Private Royal Fusiliers 23rd (First Sportsman's)

British Army S/343429 Private Army Service Corps

British Army 4299 Private Royal Fusiliers 30th (Reserve)

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Frederick Charles Cooper

Born 1882

Died 1917

British Army 32512 Private Hampshire Regiment

British Army 32512 Private The Hampshire Regiment 1st Battalion

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Walter Miles

Born 1877

Died 1915

British Army 14579 Private Hampshire Regiment

British Army 14579 Private The Hampshire Regiment 1st Battalion

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Richard Paul Innis

Born 1893

British Army 14077 Private British West Indies Regiment 10th Battalion

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John Shorey

Born 1889

British Army 15357 Private British West Indies Regiment

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William Johnson

Born 1890

Other Empire Force 587 St. Lucia Volunteers

British Army 11282 Acting Serjeant British West Indies Regiment 8th Battalion

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Frank William Snape

Born 1893

Died 1915

British Army Second Lieutenant Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry) 3rd Battalion

British Army Second Lieutenant King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

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Edith Mccafferty, Rrc

Born 1877

Other Empire Force

Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister, Matron Canadian Army Medical Corps

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Constance Elspeth Bruce

Born 1887

Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps 1st Canadian General Hospital

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Lewis Pete Loader

Born 1899

Died 1918

British Army 200049 Private Lance Corporal Tank Corps

British Army 200049 Corporal Tank Corps

British Army 200049 Corporal The Royal Tank Corps 1st Battalion

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George Irwin Brown

Born 1891

Died 1916

British Army 11967 Private 6th King's Shropshire Light Infantry

British Army 11967 Private King's Shropshire Light Infantry 6th Battalion.

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Anna Irene Stamers

Born 1888

Died 1918

Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps

Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps H.M. Hospital Ship Llandovery Castle

Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Army Medical Corps P.Q.

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