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Place of birth

Plympton, Devon [16]

Plymouth, Devon [8]

Plympton Devon [5]

Plymouth [4]

Plympton St Mary, Devon [3]

Cornwood, Devon [2]

Plympton [2]

Altrincham, Cheshire [1]

Belfast, Northern Ireland [1]

Blackawton, Devon [1]

Bradninch, Devon [1]

Bristol [1]

Calcutta, Bengal [1]

Colebrook, Devon [1]

Compton Gifford, Devon [1]

Congresbury, Somerset [1]

Crabtree, Devon [1]

Devonport, Devon [1]

Dolton, Devon [1]

Dolton, nr Hatherleigh, Devon [1]

Eggbuckland, Plymouth, Devon [1]

Honiton, Devon [1]

Ludlow, Shropshire [1]

Modbury, Devon [1]

New Mills, Derbyshire [1]

Padstow, Cornwall [1]

Penzance [1]

Plympton St Marys [1]

Plympton, Devon, England [1]

Princetown, Devon [1]

Rickham, Devon [1]

Roborough, Devon [1]

Rochdale, Lancashire [1]

Saint Austell, Cornwall [1]

South Brent near Plympton [1]

South Brent, Devon [1]

Southsea [1]

Sparkwell, Plympton, Devon [1]

St Austell, Cornwall [1]

Stoke Damerel, Devon [1]

Tavistock, Devon [1]

Teignmouth, Devon [1]

Tormoham, Devon [1]

Torquay, Devon [1]

Venton, Plympton, Devon [1]

Woodleigh, Devon [1]

Rank

Private [41]

Corporal [6]

Stoker 1st Class [6]

Second Lieutenant [5]

Stoker 2nd Class [5]

Leading Stoker [4]

Lieutenant [4]

Stoker [4]

Gunner [3]

Major [3]

Ordinary Seaman [3]

Serjeant [3]

Able Seaman [2]

Boy [2]

Lance Corporal [2]

Petty Officer Stoker [2]

Sergeant [2]

Stoker Petty Officer [2]

2nd Lieutenant [1]

Acting Bombardier [1]

Acting Chief Stoker [1]

Acting Leading Seaman [1]

Acting Leading Stoker [1]

Acting Petty Officer Stoker [1]

Assistant Constructor 2nd Class (Admiralty) [1]

Bach [1]

Boy 1st Class [1]

Boy 2nd Class [1]

Boy I [1]

Boy II [1]

Captain [1]

Chief Stoker [1]

Chief Yeoman of Signals [1]

Cook's Mate [1]

Driver [1]

Lance Serjeant [1]

Leading Signalman [1]

Leading Stoker 1st Class [1]

Leading Stoker 2nd Class [1]

Nurse [1]

Ordinary Signalman [1]

Rifleman [1]

Sapper [1]

Signalman [1]

Temporary Captain [1]

Unit

Devonshire Regiment [19]

Royal Garrison Artillery [8]

Vivid I [7]

HMS Defence [5]

Royal Fusiliers [5]

Vivid II [5]

Coldstream Guards [4]

Machine Gun Corps [4]

Vivid [4]

London Regiment [3]

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) [3]

Monmouth [3]

Royal Engineers [3]

Somerset Light Infantry [3]

Defiance [2]

Donegal [2]

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry [2]

Gibraltar [2]

HMS Indus [2]

Highflyer [2]

Implacable [2]

Impregnable [2]

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [2]

Royal Arthur [2]

Royal Warwickshire Regiment [2]

Royal West Kent Regiment [2]

Vivid 2 [2]

Admiralty Civilian - HMS Queen Mary [1]

Algerine [1]

Andromeda [1]

Army Service Corps [1]

Attached Machine Gun Corps [1]

Berwick [1]

Carnarvon [1]

Challenger [1]

Challenger (Monmouth) [1]

Cornwallis [1]

Defence [1]

Devonport Naval Base (HMS Vivid) [1]

Devonshire Militia [1]

East Lancashire Regiment [1]

Edgar [1]

Europa [1]

Europa II [1]

Euryalus [1]

Forth [1]

French Red Cross [1]

Gloucestershire Regiment [1]

HM Submarine E30 [1]

HMS Albion [1]

Service

British Army [56]

Royal Navy [24]

Air Force (RAF/RFC) [1]

Canadian Expeditionary Force [1]

Indian Army [1]

Last name first letter

B [13]

C [10]

H [10]

G [8]

S [7]

P [6]

L [4]

F [3]

M [3]

R [3]

W [3]

A [2]

E [2]

T [2]

D [1]

J [1]

K [1]

N [1]

Contribution

Military Service [73]

Country

United Kingdom [77]

India [2]

Bermuda [1]

Malta [1]

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Place of birth

Plympton, Devon [16] Plymouth, Devon [8] Plympton Devon [5] Plymouth [4] Plympton St Mary, Devon [3] Cornwood, Devon [2] Plympton [2] Altrincham, Cheshire [1] Belfast, Northern Ireland [1] Blackawton, Devon [1] Bradninch, Devon [1] Bristol [1] Calcutta, Bengal [1] Colebrook, Devon [1] Compton Gifford, Devon [1] Congresbury, Somerset [1] Crabtree, Devon [1] Devonport, Devon [1] Dolton, Devon [1] Dolton, nr Hatherleigh, Devon [1] Eggbuckland, Plymouth, Devon [1] Honiton, Devon [1] Ludlow, Shropshire [1] Modbury, Devon [1] New Mills, Derbyshire [1] Padstow, Cornwall [1] Penzance [1] Plympton St Marys [1] Plympton, Devon, England [1] Princetown, Devon [1] Rickham, Devon [1] Roborough, Devon [1] Rochdale, Lancashire [1] Saint Austell, Cornwall [1] South Brent near Plympton [1] South Brent, Devon [1] Southsea [1] Sparkwell, Plympton, Devon [1] St Austell, Cornwall [1] Stoke Damerel, Devon [1] Tavistock, Devon [1] Teignmouth, Devon [1] Tormoham, Devon [1] Torquay, Devon [1] Venton, Plympton, Devon [1] Woodleigh, Devon [1]

Rank

Private [41] Corporal [6] Stoker 1st Class [6] Second Lieutenant [5] Stoker 2nd Class [5] Leading Stoker [4] Lieutenant [4] Stoker [4] Gunner [3] Major [3] Ordinary Seaman [3] Serjeant [3] Able Seaman [2] Boy [2] Lance Corporal [2] Petty Officer Stoker [2] Sergeant [2] Stoker Petty Officer [2] 2nd Lieutenant [1] Acting Bombardier [1] Acting Chief Stoker [1] Acting Leading Seaman [1] Acting Leading Stoker [1] Acting Petty Officer Stoker [1] Assistant Constructor 2nd Class (Admiralty) [1] Bach [1] Boy 1st Class [1] Boy 2nd Class [1] Boy I [1] Boy II [1] Captain [1] Chief Stoker [1] Chief Yeoman of Signals [1] Cook's Mate [1] Driver [1] Lance Serjeant [1] Leading Signalman [1] Leading Stoker 1st Class [1] Leading Stoker 2nd Class [1] Nurse [1] Ordinary Signalman [1] Rifleman [1] Sapper [1] Signalman [1] Temporary Captain [1]

Unit

Devonshire Regiment [19] Royal Garrison Artillery [8] Vivid I [7] HMS Defence [5] Royal Fusiliers [5] Vivid II [5] Coldstream Guards [4] Machine Gun Corps [4] Vivid [4] London Regiment [3] Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) [3] Monmouth [3] Royal Engineers [3] Somerset Light Infantry [3] Defiance [2] Donegal [2] Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry [2] Gibraltar [2] HMS Indus [2] Highflyer [2] Implacable [2] Impregnable [2] Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [2] Royal Arthur [2] Royal Warwickshire Regiment [2] Royal West Kent Regiment [2] Vivid 2 [2] Admiralty Civilian - HMS Queen Mary [1] Algerine [1] Andromeda [1] Army Service Corps [1] Attached Machine Gun Corps [1] Berwick [1] Carnarvon [1] Challenger [1] Challenger (Monmouth) [1] Cornwallis [1] Defence [1] Devonport Naval Base (HMS Vivid) [1] Devonshire Militia [1] East Lancashire Regiment [1] Edgar [1] Europa [1] Europa II [1] Euryalus [1] Forth [1] French Red Cross [1] Gloucestershire Regiment [1] HM Submarine E30 [1] HMS Albion [1]

Service

British Army [56] Royal Navy [24] Air Force (RAF/RFC) [1] Canadian Expeditionary Force [1] Indian Army [1]

Last name first letter

B [13] C [10] H [10] G [8] S [7] P [6] L [4] F [3] M [3] R [3] W [3] A [2] E [2] T [2] D [1] J [1] K [1] N [1]

Contribution

Military Service [73]

Country

United Kingdom [77] India [2] Bermuda [1] Malta [1]

Claude Martin

Born 1877

Died 1917

British Army Second Lieutenant Coldstream Guards

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Albert George Campbell

Born 1898

Died 1917

British Army 203380 Private Devonshire Regiment 2nd Battalion

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Thomas Alfred Hayward

Born 1879

Died 1916

Royal Navy Stoker Royal Naval Barracks, Keyham, Devonport

Royal Navy 292724 Stoker Vivid 2

Royal Navy 292724 Stoker Magnificent

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Albert Edward Rabley

Born 1894

Died 1918

British Army 28780 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment

British Army GS/76075 Private London Regiment

British Army GS/76075 Private Royal Fusiliers

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Wallace Pascoe

Born 1898

Died 1918

British Army 28965 Private Somerset Light Infantry

British Army 28965 Lance Corporal Somerset Light Infantry

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Reginald Pengelly

Born 1888

Died 1916

Royal Navy 234671 Stoker 1st Class HMS Defence

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Charles Stuart Hayes James

Born 1899

Died 1918

British Army 45091 Private Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

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Charles Grigg

Born 1888

Died 1917

British Army 33686 Private Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

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Donald Brodby Cumming

Born 1891

Died 1978

Indian Army Second Lieutenant Reserve of Officers

Air Force (RAF/RFC) Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps

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Harry Hobson

Born 1897

Died 1979

British Army 11122 Private Welsh Regiment

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Harold James Gorman

Born 1898

Died 1917

British Army 89455 Private Machine Gun Corps

British Army 89455 Private Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

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Harry Edward Gilbert

Born 1875

Died 1916

Royal Navy 159239 Chief Yeoman of Signals HMS Defence

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Francis Palmer Selleck Horne

Born 1878

Died 1916

Royal Navy 290860 Petty Officer Stoker HMS Defence

Royal Navy 290860 Stoker 2nd Class HMS Vivid II

Royal Navy 290860 Stoker HMS Vivid II

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Percy Stephen Bate Hurrell

Born 1889

Died 1917

British Army 44096 Private Devonshire Regiment

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William Albert Conday

Born 1888

Died 1917

British Army 27123 Private Somerset Light Infantry

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William Martin Cottle

Born 1895

Died 1917

British Army 2456 Private Devonshire Regiment 1st Battalion

British Army 345199 Private Devonshire Regiment 16th Battalion

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Courtney Harold Drake

Born 1899

Died 1918

British Army 70624 Private Devonshire Regiment

British Army 34389 Private Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

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Ernest Wood

Born 1879

Died 1916

Royal Navy 193330 Able Seaman HMS Defence

Royal Navy 193330 Boy 2nd Class HMS Curacoa

Royal Navy 193330 Boy 1st Class HMS Curacoa

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Reginald Ernest Elliott

Born 1892

Died 1915

British Army GS10869 Private Royal Fusiliers

Royal Navy 365451 Boy

British Army 2004 Private Royal Army Medical Corps

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Albert Edward Blake

Born 1890

Died 1917

British Army 32698 Serjeant Royal Garrison Artillery

British Army 32698 Sergeant Royal Garrison Artillery 303 Siege Battery

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