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Alderley Edge, Cheshire [1]

Basingstoke [1]

Bedford [1]

Blithfield [1]

Bramley, Yorkshire [1]

Brookfield, Fremington, Devon [1]

Castleknock, Dublin [1]

Chester, Cheshire [1]

Cumberland [1]

Fulstone, New Mill, Huddersfield, Yorkshire [1]

Goole [1]

Handsworth, Staffordshire [1]

Heaton Norris, Lancashire [1]

Holyhead, Anglesey [1]

Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales [1]

Houghton, near Carlisle, Cumberland [1]

Kingussie Scotland [1]

Kirkby, Lancashire [1]

Leeds [1]

Leeds, Yorkshire [1]

Leicester,Leicestershire [1]

Llangollen [1]

London [1]

Oxton, Birkenhead [1]

Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales [1]

Penrith, Cumberland [1]

Perth [1]

Plymouth, Devon [1]

Queenstown, County Cork [1]

Shrewsbury [1]

South Koorg [1]

St Bee's Cumberland [1]

St. Bees, Cumberland [1]

Stockport, Cheshire [1]

Ulverston, Lancashire [1]

Walthamstow Essex [1]

Whitechapel Lancashire [1]

Whitehaven [1]

Wolverhampton [1]

Rank

Second Lieutenant [119]

Lieutenant [57]

Private [50]

Captain [39]

Lance Corporal [8]

Corporal [6]

Major [6]

Temporary Captain [5]

Serjeant [3]

2nd Lieutenant [2]

Acting Corporal [2]

Flight Cadet [2]

Gunner [2]

Temporary Second Lieutenant [2]

Acting Bombardier [1]

Acting Captain [1]

Assistant Clerk [1]

Captain Fitter [1]

Colour Serjeant [1]

Commissary [1]

Company Serjeant Major [1]

Flight Lieutenant [1]

Lance Serjeant [1]

Lieutenant Colonel [1]

Midshipman [1]

Pioneer [1]

Sapper [1]

Second Lieutenant (Temporary Lieutenant) [1]

Second Lieutenant Temporary Lieutenant [1]

Sub Lieutenant [1]

Sub-Lieutenant [1]

Temporary Lieutenant [1]

Temporary Lieutenant Acting Captain [1]

Unit

Border Regiment [20]

Machine Gun Corps [14]

London Regiment [13]

Northumberland Fusiliers [11]

Manchester Regiment [10]

Royal Fusiliers [10]

Royal Engineers [9]

Royal Field Artillery [9]

Royal Air Force [8]

Royal Flying Corps [8]

Durham Light Infantry [6]

Liverpool Regiment [6]

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [5]

Yorkshire Regiment [5]

Cheshire Regiment [4]

East Yorkshire Regiment [4]

Essex Regiment [4]

Royal Garrison Artillery [4]

Royal Naval Division [4]

Royal Scots [4]

West Yorkshire Regiment [4]

Army Service Corps [3]

Gordon Highlanders [3]

King's Royal Rifle Corps [3]

Lincolnshire Regiment [3]

Loyal North Lancashire Regiment [3]

Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment [3]

Royal Army Medical Corps [3]

Royal Warwickshire Regiment [3]

Royal Welsh Fusiliers [3]

Royal West Kent Regiment [3]

South Lancashire Regiment [3]

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) [3]

General List [2]

General List Royal Flying Corps [2]

Honourable Artillery Company [2]

King's Own Scottish Borderers [2]

Lancashire Fusiliers [2]

Middlesex Regiment [2]

North Staffordshire Regiment [2]

Northumberland Regiment [2]

Royal Army Service Corps [2]

Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force [2]

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers [2]

The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) [2]

Welsh Regiment [2]

Worcestershire Regiment [2]

1/6th Liverpool Regiment [1]

12th Liverpool Regiment [1]

16th Lancers [1]

Service

British Army [183]

Air Force (RAF/RFC) [12]

Royal Navy [8]

Australian Imperial Force [2]

Canadian Expeditionary Force [2]

Indian Army [1]

Last name first letter

R [20]

B [18]

C [18]

S [18]

G [16]

H [15]

M [14]

P [12]

W [12]

J [10]

D [8]

F [8]

T [7]

A [6]

N [6]

K [5]

I [4]

L [4]

E [2]

U [1]

Y [1]

Contribution

Military Service [204]

Country

United Kingdom [31]

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Place of birth

Alderley Edge, Cheshire [1] Basingstoke [1] Bedford [1] Blithfield [1] Bramley, Yorkshire [1] Brookfield, Fremington, Devon [1] Castleknock, Dublin [1] Chester, Cheshire [1] Cumberland [1] Fulstone, New Mill, Huddersfield, Yorkshire [1] Goole [1] Handsworth, Staffordshire [1] Heaton Norris, Lancashire [1] Holyhead, Anglesey [1] Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales [1] Houghton, near Carlisle, Cumberland [1] Kingussie Scotland [1] Kirkby, Lancashire [1] Leeds [1] Leeds, Yorkshire [1] Leicester,Leicestershire [1] Llangollen [1] London [1] Oxton, Birkenhead [1] Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales [1] Penrith, Cumberland [1] Perth [1] Plymouth, Devon [1] Queenstown, County Cork [1] Shrewsbury [1] South Koorg [1] St Bee's Cumberland [1] St. Bees, Cumberland [1] Stockport, Cheshire [1] Ulverston, Lancashire [1] Walthamstow Essex [1] Whitechapel Lancashire [1] Whitehaven [1] Wolverhampton [1]

Rank

Second Lieutenant [119] Lieutenant [57] Private [50] Captain [39] Lance Corporal [8] Corporal [6] Major [6] Temporary Captain [5] Serjeant [3] 2nd Lieutenant [2] Acting Corporal [2] Flight Cadet [2] Gunner [2] Temporary Second Lieutenant [2] Acting Bombardier [1] Acting Captain [1] Assistant Clerk [1] Captain Fitter [1] Colour Serjeant [1] Commissary [1] Company Serjeant Major [1] Flight Lieutenant [1] Lance Serjeant [1] Lieutenant Colonel [1] Midshipman [1] Pioneer [1] Sapper [1] Second Lieutenant (Temporary Lieutenant) [1] Second Lieutenant Temporary Lieutenant [1] Sub Lieutenant [1] Sub-Lieutenant [1] Temporary Lieutenant [1] Temporary Lieutenant Acting Captain [1]

Unit

Border Regiment [20] Machine Gun Corps [14] London Regiment [13] Northumberland Fusiliers [11] Manchester Regiment [10] Royal Fusiliers [10] Royal Engineers [9] Royal Field Artillery [9] Royal Air Force [8] Royal Flying Corps [8] Durham Light Infantry [6] Liverpool Regiment [6] Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [5] Yorkshire Regiment [5] Cheshire Regiment [4] East Yorkshire Regiment [4] Essex Regiment [4] Royal Garrison Artillery [4] Royal Naval Division [4] Royal Scots [4] West Yorkshire Regiment [4] Army Service Corps [3] Gordon Highlanders [3] King's Royal Rifle Corps [3] Lincolnshire Regiment [3] Loyal North Lancashire Regiment [3] Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment [3] Royal Army Medical Corps [3] Royal Warwickshire Regiment [3] Royal Welsh Fusiliers [3] Royal West Kent Regiment [3] South Lancashire Regiment [3] West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) [3] General List [2] General List Royal Flying Corps [2] Honourable Artillery Company [2] King's Own Scottish Borderers [2] Lancashire Fusiliers [2] Middlesex Regiment [2] North Staffordshire Regiment [2] Northumberland Regiment [2] Royal Army Service Corps [2] Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force [2] Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers [2] The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) [2] Welsh Regiment [2] Worcestershire Regiment [2] 1/6th Liverpool Regiment [1] 12th Liverpool Regiment [1] 16th Lancers [1]

Service

British Army [183] Air Force (RAF/RFC) [12] Royal Navy [8] Australian Imperial Force [2] Canadian Expeditionary Force [2] Indian Army [1]

Last name first letter

R [20] B [18] C [18] S [18] G [16] H [15] M [14] P [12] W [12] J [10] D [8] F [8] T [7] A [6] N [6] K [5] I [4] L [4] E [2] U [1] Y [1]

Contribution

Military Service [204]

Country

United Kingdom [31]

Francis Henry Stanley Hawkesworth

Born 1894

Died 1915

British Army Second Lieutenant Border Regiment

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Sydney Bunten Brown

Australian Imperial Force 197

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Walter Scott Glegg

Died 1916

British Army Second Lieutenant King's Royal Rifle Corps

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Robert Edward Gardiner

Born 1896

Died 1917

British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery

British Army 141767 Gunner Royal Field Artillery

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Daniel Adamson

Born 1896

Died 1919

British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Engineers

British Army Lieutenant Royal Engineers

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Robert Coventry F. Blair

Died 1919

British Army 50181 Acting Corporal South Lancashire Regiment

British Army 50181 Corporal South Lancashire Regiment

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John Stanley Graham

Born 1895

Died 1918

British Army Second Lieutenant Welsh Regiment 4 Battalion (Territorial Force)

British Army 4259 Private The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 2/5 Battalion (Territorial Force)

British Army Second Lieutenant Welsh Regiment

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Rowland Percival Baxter

Died 1916

British Army Second Lieutenant Border Regiment 5th bord Battalion

British Army Second Lieutenant Border Regiment

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Hubert Standley Belcher

Born 1894

Died 1918

British Army 1941 Private Denbigh Yeomanry

British Army 49737 Private Cheshire Regiment

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John Banks

Died 1917

British Army 3980 Private Border Regiment

British Army 241591 Border Regiment

British Army 241591 Private Border Regiment

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Cyril Graham

Born 1896

Died 1915

British Army Second Lieutenant Border Regiment bord Battalion

British Army Lieutenant Border Regiment

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Henry Norman Johnson

Born 1894

Died 1917

British Army Second Lieutenant Manchester Regiment

British Army Lieutenant Manchester Regiment

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William Torcliff Johnston

Born 1897

Died 1917

British Army Second Lieutenant Manchester Regiment

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David Carment Watson

Born 1900

Died 1918

British Army 515012 Private London Regiment

British Army 313054 Private Gordon Highlanders

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William Harrison Wilson

Born 1898

Died 1918

British Army 17556 Private Royal Scots

British Army 17556 Lance Corporal Royal Scots

British Army Second Lieutenant Border Regiment attached Durham Light Infantry

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William W Nelson

Died 1918

British Army 766394 Private London Regiment

British Army 766394 Private London Regiment (Artists' Rifles)

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Ramsay

Born 1897

Died 1919

British Army M2/192182 Private Army Service Corps

British Army M2/192182 Private Royal Army Service Corps 57th Division Motor Transport Company

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John Wilfred Robinson

Born 1894

Died 1916

British Army Second Lieutenant Northumberland Fusiliers

British Army Acting Captain Northumberland Fusiliers

British Army Captain Northumberland Fusiliers

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John Routledge

Born 1896

Died 1917

British Army 16282 Corporal Royal Scots

British Army Temporary Second Lieutenant King's Own Scottish Borderers

British Army Second Lieutenant King's Own Scottish Borderers

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William Lang Glendinning

Born 1888

Died 1918

Canadian Expeditionary Force 443156

Canadian Expeditionary Force 443156 Private Canadian Infantry 102nd Bn.

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