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Place of birth

Bankipore, Bengal [1]

Billesdon district, Leicestershire [1]

Birmingham [1]

Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire [1]

Brighton, Steyning district, Sussex [1]

Calcutta [1]

Cobh, County Cork [1]

Colchester [1]

County Tyrone, Northern Ireland [1]

Coventry, Warwickshire [1]

Croydon Surrey [1]

Estancia Loma Verde [1]

Felixstowe, Suffolk [1]

Hampstead [1]

London [1]

Malden, Essex [1]

Merfod, Montgomeryshire [1]

Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland [1]

Newhills,Aberdeenshire. [1]

Oden, Bedfordshire [1]

Penge, London [1]

Pirbright, Surrey [1]

Rochester, Kent [1]

Sevenoaks, Kent [1]

Shadwell, Middlesex [1]

Sheepscar, Leeds [1]

Shrewsbury [1]

Stonehouse [1]

Tunstall, Staffordshire [1]

Walthamstow, London [1]

York [1]

York Town, Camberley, Surrey [1]

Rank

Private [602]

Second Lieutenant [51]

Corporal [47]

Lance Corporal [41]

Serjeant [39]

Lieutenant [32]

Captain [23]

Major [16]

Warrant Officer Class 2 [12]

Acting Serjeant [10]

Lieutenant Colonel [7]

Acting Corporal [5]

Shoeing Smith [5]

Colonel [4]

Driver [3]

Lance Serjeant [3]

Staff Serjeant Major [3]

2nd Lieutenant [2]

Acting Captain [2]

Brigadier General [2]

Corporal 2nd [2]

Lieutenant-Colonel [2]

Major General [2]

Pioneer [2]

Regimental Serjeant Major [2]

Saddler [2]

Sapper [2]

Squadron Sergeant Major [2]

Squadron Serjeant Major [2]

Staff Quarter Master Serjeant [2]

Temporary Captain [2]

Trooper [2]

1st Lieutenant [1]

Acting Colonel [1]

Acting Lieutenant [1]

Acting Lieutenent Colonel [1]

Acting Warrant Officer Class 2 [1]

Air Vice Marshal [1]

Assistant Clerk [1]

Battery Serjeant Major [1]

Brigadier-General [1]

Bugler [1]

Captain Major [1]

Captain and Adjutant [1]

Captain and Quarter Master [1]

Commander [1]

Company Quarter Master Serjeant [1]

Cornet (2nd Lieutenant) [1]

Corporal (Pensioned) [1]

Farrier Quarter Master Serjeant [1]

Unit

4th Hussars [699]

Corps of Hussars [126]

4th (Queen's Own) Hussars [83]

Hussars [33]

Machine Gun Corps Cavalry [28]

Machine Gun Corps [26]

Royal Irish Rifles [25]

Labour Corps [19]

Reserve Regiment of Cavalry [15]

8th Hussars [14]

Devonshire Regiment [14]

Royal Engineers [14]

Military Mounted Police [13]

Royal Warwickshire Regiment [11]

Army Service Corps [8]

4th Dragoon Guards [7]

Leicestershire Yeomanry [5]

Royal Fusiliers [5]

4th Queen's Own Hussars [4]

4th Royal Hussars [4]

8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars [4]

Machine Gun Squadron [4]

Royal Irish Regiment [4]

4th Hussars (Queen's Own) [3]

Border Regiment [3]

General List [3]

Machine Gun Squadron Cavalry [3]

Middlesex Regiment [3]

Rifle Brigade [3]

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers [3]

14th Hussars [2]

18th Hussars [2]

4th Corps of Hussars [2]

4th Hussars (The Queen's Own) [2]

4th Queens Own Hussars [2]

7th Hussars [2]

Army Service Corps Motor Transport [2]

City of London Yeomanry [2]

Corps of Dragoons [2]

Corps of Lancers [2]

Gloucestershire Regiment [2]

Indian Unattached List [2]

London Regiment [2]

Royal Air Force [2]

Royal Flying Corps [2]

Royal Irish Fusiliers [2]

Staff [2]

1/1st Warwickshire Yeomanry [1]

10th Hussars [1]

10th Lancashire Fusiliers [1]

Service

British Army [791]

Indian Army [3]

Royal Navy [3]

Air Force (RAF/RFC) [2]

Other Empire Force [1]

Last name first letter

B [207]

C [160]

G [78]

D [49]

H [48]

W [48]

A [46]

F [35]

S [32]

R [23]

E [14]

M [14]

P [9]

T [6]

N [5]

Y [5]

O [4]

K [3]

L [3]

Q [2]

I [1]

Contribution

Military Service [791]

Country

United Kingdom [19]

India [3]

Ireland [2]

South Africa [1]

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People [792] Stories Communities

Place of birth

Bankipore, Bengal [1] Billesdon district, Leicestershire [1] Birmingham [1] Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire [1] Brighton, Steyning district, Sussex [1] Calcutta [1] Cobh, County Cork [1] Colchester [1] County Tyrone, Northern Ireland [1] Coventry, Warwickshire [1] Croydon Surrey [1] Estancia Loma Verde [1] Felixstowe, Suffolk [1] Hampstead [1] London [1] Malden, Essex [1] Merfod, Montgomeryshire [1] Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland [1] Newhills,Aberdeenshire. [1] Oden, Bedfordshire [1] Penge, London [1] Pirbright, Surrey [1] Rochester, Kent [1] Sevenoaks, Kent [1] Shadwell, Middlesex [1] Sheepscar, Leeds [1] Shrewsbury [1] Stonehouse [1] Tunstall, Staffordshire [1] Walthamstow, London [1] York [1] York Town, Camberley, Surrey [1]

Rank

Private [602] Second Lieutenant [51] Corporal [47] Lance Corporal [41] Serjeant [39] Lieutenant [32] Captain [23] Major [16] Warrant Officer Class 2 [12] Acting Serjeant [10] Lieutenant Colonel [7] Acting Corporal [5] Shoeing Smith [5] Colonel [4] Driver [3] Lance Serjeant [3] Staff Serjeant Major [3] 2nd Lieutenant [2] Acting Captain [2] Brigadier General [2] Corporal 2nd [2] Lieutenant-Colonel [2] Major General [2] Pioneer [2] Regimental Serjeant Major [2] Saddler [2] Sapper [2] Squadron Sergeant Major [2] Squadron Serjeant Major [2] Staff Quarter Master Serjeant [2] Temporary Captain [2] Trooper [2] 1st Lieutenant [1] Acting Colonel [1] Acting Lieutenant [1] Acting Lieutenent Colonel [1] Acting Warrant Officer Class 2 [1] Air Vice Marshal [1] Assistant Clerk [1] Battery Serjeant Major [1] Brigadier-General [1] Bugler [1] Captain Major [1] Captain and Adjutant [1] Captain and Quarter Master [1] Commander [1] Company Quarter Master Serjeant [1] Cornet (2nd Lieutenant) [1] Corporal (Pensioned) [1] Farrier Quarter Master Serjeant [1]

Unit

4th Hussars [699] Corps of Hussars [126] 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars [83] Hussars [33] Machine Gun Corps Cavalry [28] Machine Gun Corps [26] Royal Irish Rifles [25] Labour Corps [19] Reserve Regiment of Cavalry [15] 8th Hussars [14] Devonshire Regiment [14] Royal Engineers [14] Military Mounted Police [13] Royal Warwickshire Regiment [11] Army Service Corps [8] 4th Dragoon Guards [7] Leicestershire Yeomanry [5] Royal Fusiliers [5] 4th Queen's Own Hussars [4] 4th Royal Hussars [4] 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars [4] Machine Gun Squadron [4] Royal Irish Regiment [4] 4th Hussars (Queen's Own) [3] Border Regiment [3] General List [3] Machine Gun Squadron Cavalry [3] Middlesex Regiment [3] Rifle Brigade [3] Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers [3] 14th Hussars [2] 18th Hussars [2] 4th Corps of Hussars [2] 4th Hussars (The Queen's Own) [2] 4th Queens Own Hussars [2] 7th Hussars [2] Army Service Corps Motor Transport [2] City of London Yeomanry [2] Corps of Dragoons [2] Corps of Lancers [2] Gloucestershire Regiment [2] Indian Unattached List [2] London Regiment [2] Royal Air Force [2] Royal Flying Corps [2] Royal Irish Fusiliers [2] Staff [2] 1/1st Warwickshire Yeomanry [1] 10th Hussars [1] 10th Lancashire Fusiliers [1]

Service

British Army [791] Indian Army [3] Royal Navy [3] Air Force (RAF/RFC) [2] Other Empire Force [1]

Last name first letter

B [207] C [160] G [78] D [49] H [48] W [48] A [46] F [35] S [32] R [23] E [14] M [14] P [9] T [6] N [5] Y [5] O [4] K [3] L [3] Q [2] I [1]

Contribution

Military Service [791]

Country

United Kingdom [19] India [3] Ireland [2] South Africa [1]

Robert James Vere Falkner

Born 1891

Died 1954

British Army Lieutenant 4th Hussars

British Army Second Lieutenant 4th Hussars

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Basil Baillie Falkner

Born 1893

British Army Second Lieutenant 4th Hussars

British Army 2nd Lieutenant Leicestershire Yeomanry

British Army Lieutenant 4th Hussars

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Leonard Harrison Cripps

Born 1887

Died 1959

British Army Lieutenant 4th Hussars

British Army Captain 4th Hussars

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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Born 1874

Died 1965

British Army Major Grenadier Guards 2nd Battalion

British Army Cornet (2nd Lieutenant) 4th Queen's Own Hussars

British Army Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Scots Fusiliers 6th Battalion

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Alfred Felix Schuster

Born 1883

Died 1914

British Army Lieutenant Hussars

British Army 4th Queens Own Hussars

British Army Lieutenant 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars

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Walter Digby Buddicom

Born 1894

Died 1918

British Army Second Lieutenant 4th Hussars

British Army Lieutenant 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars B Squadron

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George Gordon Frances Greville

Born 1890

Died 1918

British Army Second Lieutenant 4th Hussars

British Army Lieutenant 4th Hussars

British Army Lieutenant 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars

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Francis Ellison Levita

Born 1889

Died 1914

British Army Lieutenant 4th Hussars

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James David Bibby

British Army Lieutenant 4th Hussars

British Army Captain 4th Hussars

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John Evelyn Carmichael Darley

Born 1880

Died 1918

British Army Major 4th Hussars

British Army Lieutenant Colonel 4th Hussars

British Army Lieutenant Colonel 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars

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John Boden

Born 1888

Died 1918

British Army 70 Corporal 4th Hussars

British Army 70 Acting Serjeant 4th Hussars

British Army 70 Private 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars

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William Ernest Blakemore

Born 1868

Died 1935

British Army 4283 Serjeant 4th Hussars

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Frank Lionel Clarke

Born 1895

Died 1914

British Army 10269 Private 4th Hussars

British Army 10269 Private 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars

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Henry Bryans

Born 1893

Died 1914

British Army 8793 Private 4th Hussars

British Army 8793 Private 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars

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Charles Raynham

Born 1889

Died 1918

British Army 6671 Corporal 4th Hussars

British Army 6671 Serjeant 4th Hussars

British Army Second Lieutenant Middlesex Regiment

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R Hamill

Died 1918

British Army 8792 Lance Corporal 4th Hussars

British Army 8792 Corporal 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars

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George William Burrell

British Army 2992 Regimental Serjeant Major 4th Hussars

British Army 2992 Captain and Quarter Master 4th Hussars

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Thomas J Brown

Died 1914

British Army 6131 Private 4th Hussars

British Army 6131 Corporal 4th Hussars

British Army 6131 Corporal 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars

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Frank Alfred Barrett

Born 1895

Died 1914

British Army 9793 Lance Corporal 4th Hussars

British Army 9793 Corporal 2nd 4th Hussars

British Army 9793 Corporal 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars

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George R Berry

Died 1918

British Army 7801 Lance Corporal 4th Hussars

British Army 7801 Private 4th Hussars

British Army 7801 Lance Corporal 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars

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