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Place of birth

St. Pancras, London [2]

Tring, Herts [2]

Wing [2]

16 Palmerston Road, Kilburn, London [1]

Bath, Somerset [1]

Belaugh, Norfolk [1]

Bledlow, Buckinghamshire [1]

Brentwood, Essex [1]

Broughton, Oxfordshire [1]

Calcutta [1]

Chipping Norton [1]

Croydon, Surrey [1]

Dalmeny, W Lothian, Scotland [1]

Earlsfield [1]

East Clandon, Surrey [1]

Eye Hill House, Soham, Cambridgeshire [1]

Forest Gate, Epping [1]

Gravesend, Kent [1]

Greenwich, South London [1]

Hethe, Oxfordshire [1]

Ipswich, Suffolk [1]

Isleworth, Middlesex [1]

Islington, London [1]

Kineton, Warwickshire [1]

Kington, Herefordshire [1]

London England [1]

Milton Keynes [1]

North Walsham, Norfolk [1]

Over Norton, Oxfordshire [1]

Rockland All Saints, Norfolk [1]

Salford, Manchester. [1]

Shadwell, Middlesex [1]

Shanghai [1]

Sheffield [1]

Soham, Cambridgeshire [1]

Steventon, Berkshire [1]

Stone, Bucks [1]

Taunton [1]

Wandsworth, London [1]

Rank

Private [1207]

Corporal [130]

Serjeant [106]

Second Lieutenant [80]

Lance Corporal [63]

Lieutenant [53]

Captain [25]

Acting Corporal [20]

Sapper [18]

Acting Serjeant [15]

Lance Serjeant [12]

Major [12]

Pioneer [7]

Lieutenant Colonel [6]

Staff Quarter Master Serjeant [6]

Warrant Officer Class 2 [6]

Company Serjeant Major [5]

Corporal 2nd [5]

Driver [5]

Farrier Serjeant [5]

Gunner [4]

Staff Serjeant [4]

Staff Serjeant Major [4]

Acting Captain [3]

Trooper [3]

Acting Lance Serjeant [2]

Acting Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant [2]

Corporal/Acting Serjeant [2]

Private Acting Lance Corporal [2]

Sergeant [2]

Shoeing Smith [2]

1017 [1]

2nd Lieutenant [1]

Acting Lance Corporal [1]

Acting Squadron Serjeant Major Serjeant [1]

Bombardier [1]

Colour Serjeant Acting Regimental Serjeant Major [1]

Company Quartermaster Serjeant [1]

Company Sergeant Major [1]

Cor [1]

Corporal (Pensioned) [1]

Corporal Acting Serjeant [1]

Corporal Shoeing Smith /Acting Lance Serjeant [1]

Corporal/Shoeing Smith [1]

Cpl [1]

Farrier Quarter Master Serjeant [1]

Honorary Lieutenant [1]

Lieutenant and Adjutant [1]

Private /Acting Company Quarter Master Serjeant [1]

Private /Lance Corporal [1]

Unit

Buckinghamshire Yeomanry [1232]

Machine Gun Corps [527]

Corps of Hussars [305]

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [235]

Oxfordshire Yeomanry [159]

Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars [91]

Royal Engineers [87]

Buckinghamshire Hussars [79]

Machine Gun Corps Cavalry [43]

Hampshire Regiment [42]

Labour Corps [34]

Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry [26]

Army Service Corps [23]

Imperial Camel Corps [19]

Royal Berkshire Regiment [19]

Worcestershire Yeomanry [18]

Worcestershire Regiment [17]

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) [16]

Reserve Regiment of Cavalry [16]

Military Mounted Police [15]

Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry [15]

Royal Warwickshire Regiment [14]

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Yeomanry [12]

Hussars [11]

Royal Air Force [11]

Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry [11]

Gloucestershire Yeomanry [10]

London Regiment [10]

Dorset Yeomanry [9]

Hertfordshire Yeomanry [8]

Leicestershire Yeomanry [8]

Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry) [8]

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry [8]

City of London Yeomanry [7]

Corps of Dragoons [7]

South Nottinghamshire Hussars [7]

Wiltshire Yeomanry [7]

Berkshire Yeomanry [6]

Gloucestershire Regiment [6]

Wiltshire Regiment [6]

Northamptonshire Yeomanry [5]

Royal Army Medical Corps [5]

2/1st Buckinghamshire Yeomanry [4]

Middlesex Regiment [4]

Royal Bucks Hussars [4]

Somerset Light Infantry [4]

Staffordshire Yeomanry [4]

1st Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars [3]

Army Cyclist Corps [3]

Bucks Hussars [3]

Service

British Army [1549]

Air Force (RAF/RFC) [2]

Last name first letter

B [163]

C [140]

S [139]

W [132]

H [124]

M [102]

G [89]

P [84]

D [82]

R [80]

T [78]

L [71]

A [46]

F [44]

J [40]

K [32]

E [28]

N [26]

V [15]

O [14]

Y [8]

I [6]

U [3]

Q [2]

Z [1]

Contribution

Military Service [1548]

Country

United Kingdom [24]

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St. Pancras, London [2] Tring, Herts [2] Wing [2] 16 Palmerston Road, Kilburn, London [1] Bath, Somerset [1] Belaugh, Norfolk [1] Bledlow, Buckinghamshire [1] Brentwood, Essex [1] Broughton, Oxfordshire [1] Calcutta [1] Chipping Norton [1] Croydon, Surrey [1] Dalmeny, W Lothian, Scotland [1] Earlsfield [1] East Clandon, Surrey [1] Eye Hill House, Soham, Cambridgeshire [1] Forest Gate, Epping [1] Gravesend, Kent [1] Greenwich, South London [1] Hethe, Oxfordshire [1] Ipswich, Suffolk [1] Isleworth, Middlesex [1] Islington, London [1] Kineton, Warwickshire [1] Kington, Herefordshire [1] London England [1] Milton Keynes [1] North Walsham, Norfolk [1] Over Norton, Oxfordshire [1] Rockland All Saints, Norfolk [1] Salford, Manchester. [1] Shadwell, Middlesex [1] Shanghai [1] Sheffield [1] Soham, Cambridgeshire [1] Steventon, Berkshire [1] Stone, Bucks [1] Taunton [1] Wandsworth, London [1]

Rank

Private [1207] Corporal [130] Serjeant [106] Second Lieutenant [80] Lance Corporal [63] Lieutenant [53] Captain [25] Acting Corporal [20] Sapper [18] Acting Serjeant [15] Lance Serjeant [12] Major [12] Pioneer [7] Lieutenant Colonel [6] Staff Quarter Master Serjeant [6] Warrant Officer Class 2 [6] Company Serjeant Major [5] Corporal 2nd [5] Driver [5] Farrier Serjeant [5] Gunner [4] Staff Serjeant [4] Staff Serjeant Major [4] Acting Captain [3] Trooper [3] Acting Lance Serjeant [2] Acting Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant [2] Corporal/Acting Serjeant [2] Private Acting Lance Corporal [2] Sergeant [2] Shoeing Smith [2] 1017 [1] 2nd Lieutenant [1] Acting Lance Corporal [1] Acting Squadron Serjeant Major Serjeant [1] Bombardier [1] Colour Serjeant Acting Regimental Serjeant Major [1] Company Quartermaster Serjeant [1] Company Sergeant Major [1] Cor [1] Corporal (Pensioned) [1] Corporal Acting Serjeant [1] Corporal Shoeing Smith /Acting Lance Serjeant [1] Corporal/Shoeing Smith [1] Cpl [1] Farrier Quarter Master Serjeant [1] Honorary Lieutenant [1] Lieutenant and Adjutant [1] Private /Acting Company Quarter Master Serjeant [1] Private /Lance Corporal [1]

Unit

Buckinghamshire Yeomanry [1232] Machine Gun Corps [527] Corps of Hussars [305] Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [235] Oxfordshire Yeomanry [159] Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars [91] Royal Engineers [87] Buckinghamshire Hussars [79] Machine Gun Corps Cavalry [43] Hampshire Regiment [42] Labour Corps [34] Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry [26] Army Service Corps [23] Imperial Camel Corps [19] Royal Berkshire Regiment [19] Worcestershire Yeomanry [18] Worcestershire Regiment [17] Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) [16] Reserve Regiment of Cavalry [16] Military Mounted Police [15] Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry [15] Royal Warwickshire Regiment [14] Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Yeomanry [12] Hussars [11] Royal Air Force [11] Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry [11] Gloucestershire Yeomanry [10] London Regiment [10] Dorset Yeomanry [9] Hertfordshire Yeomanry [8] Leicestershire Yeomanry [8] Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry) [8] Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry [8] City of London Yeomanry [7] Corps of Dragoons [7] South Nottinghamshire Hussars [7] Wiltshire Yeomanry [7] Berkshire Yeomanry [6] Gloucestershire Regiment [6] Wiltshire Regiment [6] Northamptonshire Yeomanry [5] Royal Army Medical Corps [5] 2/1st Buckinghamshire Yeomanry [4] Middlesex Regiment [4] Royal Bucks Hussars [4] Somerset Light Infantry [4] Staffordshire Yeomanry [4] 1st Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars [3] Army Cyclist Corps [3] Bucks Hussars [3]

Service

British Army [1549] Air Force (RAF/RFC) [2]

Last name first letter

B [163] C [140] S [139] W [132] H [124] M [102] G [89] P [84] D [82] R [80] T [78] L [71] A [46] F [44] J [40] K [32] E [28] N [26] V [15] O [14] Y [8] I [6] U [3] Q [2] Z [1]

Contribution

Military Service [1548]

Country

United Kingdom [24]

Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson

Born 1862

Died 1933

British Army Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army Royal Berkshire Hussars

British Army London Regiment 1/1st Battalion

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Stanley Rutland

Born 1893

Died 1915

British Army 1015 Lance Corporal Buckinghamshire Hussars

British Army 1015 Private Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army 1015 Lance Corporal Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars

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Samuel Richardson

Died 1915

British Army 784 Private Buckinghamshire Hussars

British Army 784 Private Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army 784 Private Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars

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John Roots

Died 1915

British Army 48 Serjeant Buckinghamshire Hussars

British Army 48 Serjeant Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army 48 Serjeant Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars

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Frank G Downing

British Army 42 Staff Quarter Master Serjeant Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army Lieutenant Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

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H Hoskings

British Army 205007 Acting Squadron Serjeant Major Serjeant Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army 205007 Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

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Alick Maclean

British Army 2498 Private Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army 206292 Private Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

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Henry Haddon

British Army 443 Private Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army 443 Serjeant Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

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Frank W Wood

British Army 1047 Lance Corporal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army 1047 Private Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

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Henry Leonard Shrimpton

British Army 1042 Corporal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army Lieutenant Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

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J G B Whiting

British Army 205200 Corporal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army 205200 Acting Serjeant Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

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John Ellis Taylor

Born 1895

Died 1915

British Army 1111 Lance Corporal Buckinghamshire Hussars

British Army 1111 Private Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army 1111 Private Corps of Hussars

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John Percy Newton Dover

Born 1897

Died 1917

British Army 1539 Private Buckinghamshire Hussars

British Army 1539 Private Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army 205335 Private Corps of Hussars Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars

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Stanley Miller

Born 1886

Died 1917

British Army 1034 Private Buckinghamshire Hussars

British Army 1034 Acting Serjeant Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army 205215 Corporal Corps of Hussars

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Herbert Ernest Faulder

Born 1894

British Army 206081 Private Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army 2593 Private Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army 495888 Private Royal Engineers

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Louis Edwin William Egerton

Born 1880

Died 1917

British Army Captain Buckinghamshire Yeomanry attached Royal Artillery

British Army Captain Royal Bucks Hussars

British Army Captain Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars

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Douglas Victor Bunting

Born 1896

Died 1976

British Army 2101 Private Oxfordshire Yeomanry

British Army 2101 Private Corps of Hussars

British Army Second Lieutenant Buckinghamshire Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

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Alfred Waring

Born 1877

Died 1915

British Army 968 Private Buckinghamshire Hussars

British Army 968 Private Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army 968 Private Corps of Hussars

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Arthur Albert Cross

Born 1894

Died 1917

British Army 2453 Private Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army 205990 Private Corps of Hussars

British Army 205990 Private Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars

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Alfred Trevanion Powell

Born 1892

Died 1916

British Army 2150 Private Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army Second Lieutenant Cameron Highlanders

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