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Bury, Lancashire [2]

Ballachurry, Andreas, Isle of Man [1]

Bedfordshire [1]

Belfast [1]

Benares [1]

Bengal [1]

Birkenhead, Cheshire [1]

Birkenhead, Wirral [1]

Castletown, Isle of Man [1]

Castletown, Isle of Wight [1]

Douglas [1]

Egremont, Cheshire [1]

Fallowfield, Manchester [1]

Ford, Devon [1]

Hackney [1]

Halifax, Yorkshire [1]

Hunterville [1]

Johannesburg, Transvaal [1]

Liverpool [1]

Liverpool, Lancashire [1]

London [1]

Luton, Bedfordshire [1]

Lymm, Cheshire [1]

Maghull, Lancs [1]

Manchester ENGLAND [1]

Monimail, Fifeshire [1]

P [1]

Peel, Isle of Man [1]

Penrith,Cumberland. [1]

Preston, Lancashire [1]

Ramsgate, Kent [1]

Sale, Cheshire [1]

Saltburn, Yorkshire [1]

Scarborough [1]

Sudbury, Suffolk [1]

Swindon [1]

Timperley, Altrincham, Cheshire [1]

Toxteth Park, Liverpool [1]

Tralee Co Kerry [1]

Winster, Derbyshire [1]

Yorks Ossett [1]

Rank

Second Lieutenant [49]

Private [38]

Lieutenant [30]

Captain [28]

Lance Corporal [9]

Major [8]

Corporal [5]

Temporary Lieutenant [5]

Lieutenant Colonel [4]

Serjeant [4]

Temporary Second Lieutenant [3]

Temporary Captain [2]

Acting Serjeant [1]

Cadet [1]

Commander [1]

Driver [1]

Engine Room Artificer [1]

Engine Room Artificer 1st Class [1]

Guardsman [1]

Gunner [1]

Lieutenant Acting Captain [1]

Lieutenant Captain [1]

Reverend [1]

Sapper [1]

Second Engineer [1]

Sub-Lieutenant [1]

Trimmer [1]

Warrant Officer Class 2 [1]

Unit

Liverpool Regiment [13]

Royal Flying Corps [8]

Royal Fusiliers [8]

Cheshire Regiment [7]

Machine Gun Corps [6]

Indian Army [5]

London Regiment [5]

Manchester Regiment [5]

Royal Field Artillery [5]

Canadian Infantry [4]

Royal Engineers [4]

West Riding Regiment [4]

West Yorkshire Regiment [4]

Cameron Highlanders [3]

Devonshire Regiment [3]

Lancashire Fusiliers [3]

Royal Air Force [3]

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

Yorkshire Regiment [3]

Bedfordshire Regiment [2]

Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry [2]

East Lancashire Regiment [2]

Grenadier Guards [2]

King's Royal Rifle Corps [2]

Loyal North Lancashire Regiment [2]

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) [2]

Officer Training Corps [2]

Royal Army Medical Corps [2]

Royal Army Medical Corps Territorial Force [2]

Royal Garrison Artillery [2]

Royal Welsh Fusiliers [2]

South Lancashire Regiment [2]

South Wales Borderers [2]

1/6th West Riding Regiment [1]

17th Cavalry, deputy Political Resident to Persia [1]

18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars [1]

31st British Columbia Horse [1]

4th Royal Scots [1]

54th Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment) [1]

5th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment) [1]

93rd Burma Infantry [1]

94th Russell's Infantry [1]

9th Lancers [1]

Canadian Engineers [1]

Canadian Infantry Battalion/Canadian Forces [1]

Canadian Infantry Brigade [1]

Canadian Scottish [1]

Coldstream Guards [1]

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry [1]

Fife and Forfar Yeomanry [1]

Service

British Army [116]

Air Force (RAF/RFC) [9]

Canadian Expeditionary Force [7]

Other Empire Force [4]

Royal Navy [4]

Indian Army [3]

New Zealand Expeditionary Force [2]

Australian Imperial Force [1]

Last name first letter

S [18]

B [17]

M [14]

C [10]

T [10]

H [9]

G [7]

A [6]

L [6]

N [6]

E [5]

P [5]

R [5]

W [4]

F [3]

J [3]

K [3]

D [1]

O [1]

Q [1]

V [1]

Contribution

Military Service [131]

Country

United Kingdom [23]

Ireland [1]

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People [135] Stories Communities

Place of birth

Bury, Lancashire [2] Ballachurry, Andreas, Isle of Man [1] Bedfordshire [1] Belfast [1] Benares [1] Bengal [1] Birkenhead, Cheshire [1] Birkenhead, Wirral [1] Castletown, Isle of Man [1] Castletown, Isle of Wight [1] Douglas [1] Egremont, Cheshire [1] Fallowfield, Manchester [1] Ford, Devon [1] Hackney [1] Halifax, Yorkshire [1] Hunterville [1] Johannesburg, Transvaal [1] Liverpool [1] Liverpool, Lancashire [1] London [1] Luton, Bedfordshire [1] Lymm, Cheshire [1] Maghull, Lancs [1] Manchester ENGLAND [1] Monimail, Fifeshire [1] P [1] Peel, Isle of Man [1] Penrith,Cumberland. [1] Preston, Lancashire [1] Ramsgate, Kent [1] Sale, Cheshire [1] Saltburn, Yorkshire [1] Scarborough [1] Sudbury, Suffolk [1] Swindon [1] Timperley, Altrincham, Cheshire [1] Toxteth Park, Liverpool [1] Tralee Co Kerry [1] Winster, Derbyshire [1] Yorks Ossett [1]

Rank

Second Lieutenant [49] Private [38] Lieutenant [30] Captain [28] Lance Corporal [9] Major [8] Corporal [5] Temporary Lieutenant [5] Lieutenant Colonel [4] Serjeant [4] Temporary Second Lieutenant [3] Temporary Captain [2] Acting Serjeant [1] Cadet [1] Commander [1] Driver [1] Engine Room Artificer [1] Engine Room Artificer 1st Class [1] Guardsman [1] Gunner [1] Lieutenant Acting Captain [1] Lieutenant Captain [1] Reverend [1] Sapper [1] Second Engineer [1] Sub-Lieutenant [1] Trimmer [1] Warrant Officer Class 2 [1]

Unit

Liverpool Regiment [13] Royal Flying Corps [8] Royal Fusiliers [8] Cheshire Regiment [7] Machine Gun Corps [6] Indian Army [5] London Regiment [5] Manchester Regiment [5] Royal Field Artillery [5] Canadian Infantry [4] Royal Engineers [4] West Riding Regiment [4] West Yorkshire Regiment [4] Cameron Highlanders [3] Devonshire Regiment [3] Lancashire Fusiliers [3] Royal Air Force [3] West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) [3] Yorkshire Regiment [3] Bedfordshire Regiment [2] Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry [2] East Lancashire Regiment [2] Grenadier Guards [2] King's Royal Rifle Corps [2] Loyal North Lancashire Regiment [2] Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) [2] Officer Training Corps [2] Royal Army Medical Corps [2] Royal Army Medical Corps Territorial Force [2] Royal Garrison Artillery [2] Royal Welsh Fusiliers [2] South Lancashire Regiment [2] South Wales Borderers [2] 1/6th West Riding Regiment [1] 17th Cavalry, deputy Political Resident to Persia [1] 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars [1] 31st British Columbia Horse [1] 4th Royal Scots [1] 54th Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment) [1] 5th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment) [1] 93rd Burma Infantry [1] 94th Russell's Infantry [1] 9th Lancers [1] Canadian Engineers [1] Canadian Infantry Battalion/Canadian Forces [1] Canadian Infantry Brigade [1] Canadian Scottish [1] Coldstream Guards [1] Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry [1] Fife and Forfar Yeomanry [1]

Service

British Army [116] Air Force (RAF/RFC) [9] Canadian Expeditionary Force [7] Other Empire Force [4] Royal Navy [4] Indian Army [3] New Zealand Expeditionary Force [2] Australian Imperial Force [1]

Last name first letter

S [18] B [17] M [14] C [10] T [10] H [9] G [7] A [6] L [6] N [6] E [5] P [5] R [5] W [4] F [3] J [3] K [3] D [1] O [1] Q [1] V [1]

Contribution

Military Service [131]

Country

United Kingdom [23] Ireland [1]

Ronald Edward Wilson

Born 1885

Died 1916

British Army Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps

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Ewan Alfred Jackson

Born 1874

Died 1917

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 25532 Wellington Infantry Regiment 2nd Battalion

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Claude Leonard Eyre Muntz

Born 1880

Died 1916

Royal Navy Captain

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Robert Buck Broster

Born 1893

Died 1918

British Army 6/2777 Private West Riding Regiment

British Army Second Lieutenant 1/6th West Riding Regiment

British Army Lieutenant Acting Captain 1/6th West Riding Regiment

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George Hamilton Williamson

Born 1889

Died 1917

British Army Lieutenant King's Royal Rifle Corps

British Army Captain King's Royal Rifle Corps 7th Battalion

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Charles Stanley Nicholson

Born 1887

Died 1916

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 23/535 New Zealand Machine Gun Corps

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Eric Bernard Hough

Born 1896

Died 1918

British Army 21514 Lance Corporal Liverpool Regiment

British Army Second Lieutenant Liverpool Regiment

British Army Captain Liverpool Regiment 19th Battalion

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William Eric Nixon

Born 1897

Died 1917

British Army Captain King's Own Scottish Borderers attached Royal Flying Corps

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Charles William Boote

Born 1889

Died 1916

British Army Second Lieutenant Cheshire Regiment 8th Battalion

British Army Captain Cheshire Regiment 8th Battalion

British Army Captain Cheshire Regiment

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Morrice Greer

Born 1882

Died 1917

British Army Captain Royal Army Medical Corps Territorial Force

British Army Captain Royal Army Medical Corps

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Donald Eastwood

Born 1892

Died 1917

British Army 1769 Private King's Liverpool Regiment

British Army Captain King's Liverpool Regiment

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Richard Powell Scholefield

Born 1885

Died 1916

British Army Private Liverpool Regiment

British Army Temporary Second Lieutenant Cheshire Regiment

British Army Second Lieutenant Cheshire Regiment

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Cyril Hamilton Reid Scholefield

Born 1895

Died 1918

British Army Captain Royal Garrison Artillery

British Army Major Royal Garrison Artillery

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Norman James Kerr

Born 1895

Died 1916

British Army 14575 Private Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

British Army Second Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps

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Robert Burnet

Born 1876

Died 1915

British Army Lieutenant Colonel Royal Army Medical Corps Territorial Force

British Army Lieutenant Colonel Royal Army Medical Corps

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Cyril Hubert Snell

Born 1890

Died 1917

British Army 2859 Private Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry

British Army Second Lieutenant Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry

British Army Lieutenant Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry

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Arthur Houghton

Born 1890

Died 1918

British Army SE/16673 Private Royal Army Veterinary Corps

British Army Second Lieutenant Worcestershire Regiment

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Alexander Thomson

Born 1891

Died 1915

British Army S/16464 Private Cameron Highlanders

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George Edward Shepherd

Born 1896

Died 1916

British Army 15152 Private Liverpool Regiment

British Army 22806 Private Machine Gun Corps

British Army 22806 Private Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

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Leslie Eastwood

Born 1885

Died 1915

British Army Second Lieutenant King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)

British Army Second Lieutenant King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 6th

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