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Lambeth [18]

Islington [16]

Camberwell [14]

Hackney [14]

West Ham [9]

Bethnal Green [8]

Bermondsey [7]

Lewisham [7]

Battersea [6]

Debenham [6]

Islington, London [6]

Peckham [6]

Poplar [6]

Southwark [6]

Marylebone [5]

Mile End Old Town [5]

Paddington [5]

St. Olave, Bermondsey [5]

Walthamstow [5]

Wandsworth [5]

Camberwell, London [4]

Clerkenwell, Holborn [4]

Croydon [4]

Fulham [4]

Holborn [4]

Kensington, London [4]

Lambeth, London [4]

London [4]

Shoreditch [4]

Debenham, Suffolk [3]

Hackney, London [3]

Holborn, London [3]

Kensington [3]

Marylebone, London [3]

Mile End Old Town, London [3]

St. Pancras [3]

Alofi [2]

Bethnal Green, London [2]

Birmingham, Warwickshire [2]

Brighton [2]

Camberwell, Surrey [2]

Clapham [2]

Clerkenwell [2]

Edmonton [2]

Fulham, London [2]

Gisborne [2]

Greenwich [2]

Hampstead [2]

Hendon, Middlesex [2]

Hoxton, Shoreditch [2]

Rank

Private [485]

Rifleman [425]

Serjeant [88]

Lance Corporal [86]

Corporal [74]

Second Lieutenant [36]

Lieutenant [17]

Captain [15]

Company Serjeant Major [15]

Sergeant [15]

Acting Corporal [10]

Driver [7]

Lance Serjeant [7]

Warrant Officer Class 2 [5]

Acting Serjeant [4]

Colour Serjeant [3]

Sapper [3]

Acting Lance Corporal [2]

Boy 1st Class [2]

Bugler [2]

CSM [2]

Company Quarter Master Serjeant [2]

Corporal 2nd [2]

Drummer [2]

Gunner [2]

L/CPL [2]

L/Cpl [2]

L/Cpl. [2]

L/Sgt [2]

L/cpl [2]

Lieutenant Colonel [2]

Pioneer [2]

2/Lt [1]

24778 [1]

2nd Lieutenant [1]

2nd Lt. [1]

77558 [1]

A/SGT [1]

Able Seaman [1]

Acting Bombardier [1]

Acting Captain [1]

Acting Quarter Master Serjeant [1]

Acting Sergeant [1]

Acting Sub-Lieutenant [1]

Acting Warrant Officer Class 2 [1]

Acting lance Corporal [1]

Acting-Lieutenant [1]

Band Boy [1]

Boy 2nd Class [1]

CQMS [1]

Unit

London Regiment [746]

London Regiment (City of London Rifles) [102]

New Zealand Maori Contingent [12]

Royal Engineers [11]

Army Service Corps [9]

Essex Regiment [9]

Labour Corps [9]

New Zealand 1st Maori Contingent [7]

Royal Army Medical Corps [7]

Royal Field Artillery [7]

Royal Fusiliers [6]

King's Royal Rifle Corps [5]

Maori Contingent [5]

New Zealand Pioneer Battalion [5]

Rarotongan Contingent [5]

Machine Gun Corps [4]

Rarotongans, Attached B Company [4]

Royal West Kent Regiment [4]

Somerset Light Infantry [4]

3rd Maori Contingent [3]

Honourable Artillery Company [3]

1st Maori Contingent [2]

3rd Pioneer Battalion New Zealand [2]

Army Cyclist Corps [2]

Canadian Infantry [2]

Cheshire Regiment [2]

City of London Rifles [2]

County of London Regiment [2]

First Maori Contingent, A Company [2]

First Maori Contingent, B Company [2]

New Zealand Rifle Brigade [2]

New Zealand Training Unit [2]

Rifle Brigade [2]

Royal Army Service Corps [2]

Royal Garrison Artillery [2]

West Yorkshire Regiment [2]

11th Reinforcements, [1]

17th New Zealand Pioneer Battalion [1]

18th Reinforcements [1]

1st Maori Contingent [1]

1st Maori Pioneer Battalion [1]

1st NZ Maori Contingent B Company [1]

1st New Zealand Maori Contingent [1]

22 Corps [1]

2nd New Zealand Pioneer Battalion [1]

2nd Battalion Infantry Regiment [1]

2nd Maori Contingent [1]

2nd NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion [1]

3rd NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion [1]

3rd NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion, [1]

Service

British Army [824]

New Zealand Expeditionary Force [111]

Royal Navy [8]

Air Force (RAF/RFC) [6]

Australian Imperial Force [2]

Canadian Expeditionary Force [2]

Other Empire Force [1]

Last name first letter

B [104]

C [95]

P [88]

H [85]

G [66]

M [57]

S [55]

A [54]

T [54]

W [51]

F [49]

R [48]

D [25]

E [20]

K [19]

L [18]

N [17]

O [14]

J [13]

V [10]

I [5]

Y [3]

Q [1]

U [1]

Contribution

Military Service [945]

Merchant Navy [1]

Country

United Kingdom [620]

New Zealand [73]

Cook Islands [13]

Niue [11]

India [3]

Tonga [2]

Australia [1]

Canada [1]

Fiji [1]

Germany [1]

Ireland [1]

Tuvalu [1]

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People [952] Stories Communities

Place of birth

Lambeth [18] Islington [16] Camberwell [14] Hackney [14] West Ham [9] Bethnal Green [8] Bermondsey [7] Lewisham [7] Battersea [6] Debenham [6] Islington, London [6] Peckham [6] Poplar [6] Southwark [6] Marylebone [5] Mile End Old Town [5] Paddington [5] St. Olave, Bermondsey [5] Walthamstow [5] Wandsworth [5] Camberwell, London [4] Clerkenwell, Holborn [4] Croydon [4] Fulham [4] Holborn [4] Kensington, London [4] Lambeth, London [4] London [4] Shoreditch [4] Debenham, Suffolk [3] Hackney, London [3] Holborn, London [3] Kensington [3] Marylebone, London [3] Mile End Old Town, London [3] St. Pancras [3] Alofi [2] Bethnal Green, London [2] Birmingham, Warwickshire [2] Brighton [2] Camberwell, Surrey [2] Clapham [2] Clerkenwell [2] Edmonton [2] Fulham, London [2] Gisborne [2] Greenwich [2] Hampstead [2] Hendon, Middlesex [2] Hoxton, Shoreditch [2]

Rank

Private [485] Rifleman [425] Serjeant [88] Lance Corporal [86] Corporal [74] Second Lieutenant [36] Lieutenant [17] Captain [15] Company Serjeant Major [15] Sergeant [15] Acting Corporal [10] Driver [7] Lance Serjeant [7] Warrant Officer Class 2 [5] Acting Serjeant [4] Colour Serjeant [3] Sapper [3] Acting Lance Corporal [2] Boy 1st Class [2] Bugler [2] CSM [2] Company Quarter Master Serjeant [2] Corporal 2nd [2] Drummer [2] Gunner [2] L/CPL [2] L/Cpl [2] L/Cpl. [2] L/Sgt [2] L/cpl [2] Lieutenant Colonel [2] Pioneer [2] 2/Lt [1] 24778 [1] 2nd Lieutenant [1] 2nd Lt. [1] 77558 [1] A/SGT [1] Able Seaman [1] Acting Bombardier [1] Acting Captain [1] Acting Quarter Master Serjeant [1] Acting Sergeant [1] Acting Sub-Lieutenant [1] Acting Warrant Officer Class 2 [1] Acting lance Corporal [1] Acting-Lieutenant [1] Band Boy [1] Boy 2nd Class [1] CQMS [1]

Unit

London Regiment [746] London Regiment (City of London Rifles) [102] New Zealand Maori Contingent [12] Royal Engineers [11] Army Service Corps [9] Essex Regiment [9] Labour Corps [9] New Zealand 1st Maori Contingent [7] Royal Army Medical Corps [7] Royal Field Artillery [7] Royal Fusiliers [6] King's Royal Rifle Corps [5] Maori Contingent [5] New Zealand Pioneer Battalion [5] Rarotongan Contingent [5] Machine Gun Corps [4] Rarotongans, Attached B Company [4] Royal West Kent Regiment [4] Somerset Light Infantry [4] 3rd Maori Contingent [3] Honourable Artillery Company [3] 1st Maori Contingent [2] 3rd Pioneer Battalion New Zealand [2] Army Cyclist Corps [2] Canadian Infantry [2] Cheshire Regiment [2] City of London Rifles [2] County of London Regiment [2] First Maori Contingent, A Company [2] First Maori Contingent, B Company [2] New Zealand Rifle Brigade [2] New Zealand Training Unit [2] Rifle Brigade [2] Royal Army Service Corps [2] Royal Garrison Artillery [2] West Yorkshire Regiment [2] 11th Reinforcements, [1] 17th New Zealand Pioneer Battalion [1] 18th Reinforcements [1] 1st Maori Contingent [1] 1st Maori Pioneer Battalion [1] 1st NZ Maori Contingent B Company [1] 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent [1] 22 Corps [1] 2nd New Zealand Pioneer Battalion [1] 2nd Battalion Infantry Regiment [1] 2nd Maori Contingent [1] 2nd NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion [1] 3rd NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion [1] 3rd NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion, [1]

Service

British Army [824] New Zealand Expeditionary Force [111] Royal Navy [8] Air Force (RAF/RFC) [6] Australian Imperial Force [2] Canadian Expeditionary Force [2] Other Empire Force [1]

Last name first letter

B [104] C [95] P [88] H [85] G [66] M [57] S [55] A [54] T [54] W [51] F [49] R [48] D [25] E [20] K [19] L [18] N [17] O [14] J [13] V [10] I [5] Y [3] Q [1] U [1]

Contribution

Military Service [945] Merchant Navy [1]

Country

United Kingdom [620] New Zealand [73] Cook Islands [13] Niue [11] India [3] Tonga [2] Australia [1] Canada [1] Fiji [1] Germany [1] Ireland [1] Tuvalu [1]

Ernest Frost

British Army 666 Rifleman London Regiment 6th (City of London) Battalion (Rifles)

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Herbert S Harvey

British Army 2616 London Regiment 6th lond Battalion

British Army 320795 Serjeant London Regiment 6th lond Battalion

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John Coley

British Army 2677 London Regiment 6th lond Battalion

British Army 320826 Private London Regiment 6th lond Battalion

British Army Second Lieutenant London Regiment 4th lond Battalion

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Herbert H Godfrey

British Army 2391 London Regiment 6th lond Battalion

British Army 320663 Serjeant London Regiment 6th lond Battalion

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Charles John Potter

British Army 324491 Private London Regiment 6th Battalion City of London Rifles

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George Skeggs

Born 1899

Royal Navy J34408 Boy 1st Class HMS Canada

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Jesse Kisby

Born 1898

Died 1979

British Army 295030 Private London Regiment

British Army 348084 Rifleman London Regiment 6th (City of London) Battalion ( Rifles)

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Frank Ewart Allen

Born 1890

Died 1967

British Army 6097 Rifleman London Regiment 6th lond Battalion

British Army 323089 Rifleman London Regiment 6th lond Battalion

British Army 323089 Temporary Corporal London Regiment 6th lond Battalion

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Henry Herman Wehrkamp

Born 1894

Died 1917

British Army 2228 Private London Regiment

British Army 320578 Serjeant London Regiment 1/6th (City of London) Battalion (Rifles)

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Herbert George Banks

Born 1879

Died 1952

British Army 4830 Rifleman London Regiment 6th (City of London) Battalion ( Rifles)

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G Aley

Died 1915

British Army 7489 Private Essex Regiment 2nd Battalion

British Army 7489 Private Essex Regiment 2nd Battalion

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Robert H Layzell

Born 1886

Died 1915

British Army 3213 Private Essex Regiment

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William Martin Barker

Born 1895

Died 1915

British Army 1331 Private Lincolnshire Regiment

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Samuel Sidney Bond

Born 1893

Died 1918

British Army 6966 Private London Regiment 6th lond Battalion

British Army 323739 Rifleman London Regiment (City of London Rifles)

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Ernest E. Bailey

Born 1896

Died 1916

British Army 4925 Private London Regiment 6th lond Battalion

British Army 4925 Rifleman London Regiment (City of London Rifles)

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Walter 'wattie' Pukauae Barclay

British Army 15/24, 13/24A Serjeant New Zealand Pioneer Battalion

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Henry B Kedge

British Army 860949 Private London Regiment

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John Odell Pearce

Born 1896

Died 1917

British Army 4455 Private London Regiment

British Army 321906 Rifleman London Regiment 6th (City of London) Battalion (Rifles).

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Horace Gordon Aspinall

British Army 27593 Acting Serjeant Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

British Army 485308 Acting Serjeant Labour Corps

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Alfred O Bunkell

British Army G-20791 Private London Regiment 20th lond Battalion

British Army G-20791 Private Royal West Kent Regiment

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