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Royal Berkshire Regiment [1]

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Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) [1]

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Royal Navy [15]

British Army [14]

Australian Imperial Force [2]

Other Empire Force [1]

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Wigston, Leicester, Leicestershire [12] Wigston, Leicestershire [12] Wigston Magna, Leicestershire [11] South Wigston, Leicestershire [6] Wigston Magna, Leicester, Leicestershire [5] Wigston [2] Wigston Magna, Leicester [2] Great Wigston, Leicestershire [1] South Wigston England [1] South Wigston, Leicester, Leicestershire [1] South Wigston, Leics [1] Wigston England [1] Wigston Leicester [1] Wigston Leicestershire [1] Wigston Magna near Leicester, Leicestershire [1] Wigston Magnar, Leicestershire [1] Wigston, Leicester [1] Wigston, Lincolnshire [1]

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Private [12] Corporal [2] Second Lieutenant [2] Serjeant [2] Acting Corporal [1] Horseman [1] Lance Serjeant [1] Lieutenant [1] Senior Reserve Attendant [1] Sergeant [1]

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Leicestershire Regiment [5] Corps of Hussars [3] Machine Gun Corps [2] 2nd Battalion Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment [1] Devonshire Regiment [1] East Yorkshire Regiment [1] Hussars [1] King's Royal Rifle Corps [1] Labour Corps [1] Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) [1] Mercantile Marine (Merchant Navy) [1] Mercantile Marine: SS Anglo Californian (London) [1] Northamptonshire Regiment [1] Royal Berkshire Regiment [1] Royal Warwickshire Regiment [1] Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) [1] West Yorkshire Regiment [1]

Service

Air Force (RAF/RFC) [30] Royal Navy [15] British Army [14] Australian Imperial Force [2] Other Empire Force [1]

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M [9] B [8] W [7] P [6] S [5] F [4] G [4] H [4] D [3] C [2] N [2] E [1] J [1] L [1] O [1] R [1] T [1] V [1]

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Military Service [60]

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United Kingdom [4]

Ernest Humberstone

Born 1896

Died 1954

British Army 87789 Private Machine Gun Corps (Various battalions, latterly the ....) 53rd Battalion

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Ernest Edward Daniel Johnson

Born 1890

Died 1915

British Army 2562 Private Corps of Hussars

British Army 2562 Private Leicestershire Regiment 1st Battalion

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Alfred James Tomlinson

Born 1893

Died 1915

British Army 1863 Private Corps of Hussars

British Army 1863 Private Leicestershire Regiment 1st Battalion

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Cyril Bertie Preston

Born 1893

Died 1918

British Army 28831 Acting Corporal Machine Gun Corps

British Army R/17107 King's Royal Rifle Corps

British Army 28831 Corporal Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 60th Bn.

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Albert Edward Stevens

Born 1878

Air Force (RAF/RFC) 160463

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Albert Edward Stanyon

Born 1887

Air Force (RAF/RFC) 278326

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Fred Osborne Rawson

Born 1878

Air Force (RAF/RFC) 191830

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Arthur Bowsher Ward

Born 1892

Died 1918

British Army 1031 Corporal West Yorkshire Regiment 15th Battalion (Leeds City Battalion)

British Army 1031 Private West Yorkshire Regiment 15th Battalion (Leeds City Battalion)

British Army 1031 Serjeant West Yorkshire Regiment 19th Battalion

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Frank Colver

Born 1888

Died 1917

British Army 10131 Private 2nd Battalion Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment

British Army 10131 Private Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

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William Ewart Boulter

Born 1892

Died 1955

British Army 14603 Serjeant Northamptonshire Regiment

British Army Second Lieutenant Northamptonshire Regiment

British Army Lieutenant Northamptonshire Regiment

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Frederick Norman

Born 1885

Died 1947

British Army 6482 Private Hussars

British Army 47556 Private Corps of Hussars

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Harry Partridge

Born 1885

Air Force (RAF/RFC) 209163

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Charles Edwin Freer

Born 1895

Air Force (RAF/RFC) 235695

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James Edward Mason

Died 1914

British Army 3315 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 2nd Battalion.

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Edward Mayfield

Died 1916

British Army 25744 Private Leicestershire Regiment 6th Bn.

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Joseph Frederick Pursey

Born 1895

Air Force (RAF/RFC) 146539

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George Barlett

Born 1874

Air Force (RAF/RFC) 191253

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Wilfred Lawson Wilde

Born 1885

Air Force (RAF/RFC) 160993

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Alexander Pawley

Born 1871

Air Force (RAF/RFC) 291308

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Herbert Ward

Born 1894

Air Force (RAF/RFC) 167410

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