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Maidstone, Kent [5]

London [3]

Port-of-Spain [3]

Liverpool [2]

Reedness, Goole [2]

Thanet, Kent [2]

Aberffrwd, Cardigan [1]

Altrincham [1]

Altrincham Cheshire. [1]

Arbroath [1]

Barnton, Cheshire [1]

Bayswater [1]

Bedford, Bedfordshire [1]

Bexhill [1]

Birmingham, Warwickshire [1]

Bodle Street, Sussex [1]

Brannockstown, Trim, Meath [1]

Bridport [1]

Brierley Hill, Staffordshire [1]

Brockdish Norfolk [1]

Bubwith, Yorks [1]

Bury, St Ives, Huntingdonshire [1]

Camberwell, London [1]

Cardiff [1]

Carlton, Selby, Yorkshire [1]

Charing, Kent [1]

Chelsea London [1]

Chelsea, London [1]

Chingford, Essex [1]

Clapham [1]

Clerkenwell, London [1]

Cloyne, County Cork [1]

Corfe, Somerset [1]

Corwen, Merionethshire, Wales [1]

Crakehall, Bedale, Yorkshire [1]

Derby [1]

Dodington, Gloucestershire [1]

Dorking, Surrey [1]

Droylsden, Lancashire [1]

Dundalk [1]

Earlswood, Reigate, Surrey [1]

East Dean, Gloucestershire [1]

East Dean, near Chichester [1]

East Farndon [1]

East Ham, Essex [1]

Easter Glackton Petty Invernesshire [1]

Eastoft, Lincolnshire [1]

Eastry District, Kent [1]

Finsbury, Middlesex [1]

Folkestone [1]

Rank

Private [2527]

Trooper [1113]

Sapper [295]

Guardsman [275]

Corporal [236]

Second Lieutenant [162]

Lance Corporal [150]

Lieutenant [135]

Serjeant [92]

Acting Corporal [55]

Corporal of Horse [55]

Private Lance Corporal [48]

Captain [45]

Lance Serjeant [25]

Private Acting Corporal [22]

Major [20]

Corporal Acting Serjeant [15]

Acting Serjeant [12]

Shoeing Smith [10]

Private /Lance Corporal [9]

Temporary Lieutenant [8]

Warrant Officer Class 2 [7]

Acting Corporal of Horse [6]

Company Quarter Master Serjeant [6]

Company Serjeant Major [6]

Gunner [6]

Acting Captain [5]

Driver [5]

Private Acting Lance Corporal [5]

Private Corporal [5]

Regimental Serjeant Major [5]

Lieutenant Acting Captain [4]

Trumpeter [4]

Acting Warrant Officer Class 2 [3]

Corporal Lance Serjeant [3]

Pioneer [3]

Private Acting Serjeant [3]

Quartermaster Serjeant [3]

Regimental Quarter Master Serjeant [3]

Saddler [3]

Serjeant Private [3]

Trooper Lance Corporal [3]

Acting Colour Serjeant [2]

Acting Major [2]

Colour Serjeant [2]

Corporal 2nd [2]

Corporal Private [2]

Corporal Shoeing Smith [2]

Corporal Trooper [2]

Corporal/Lance Serjeant [2]

Unit

Guards Machine Gun Regiment [4417]

Royal Horse Guards [656]

Grenadier Guards [503]

Life Guards [435]

Coldstream Guards [412]

Scots Guards [272]

Machine Gun Corps [196]

Household Battalion [166]

Irish Guards [166]

Dragoon Guards [159]

Welsh Guards [114]

Reserve Regiment of Cavalry [113]

Machine Gun Corps Cavalry [100]

2nd Life Guards [96]

Machine Gun Guards [76]

1st Life Guards [71]

Hussars [51]

London Regiment [49]

Royal Highlanders Guards [44]

Royal Canadian Regiment [39]

Machine Gun Regiment [27]

Royal Warwickshire Regiment [25]

5th Dragoon Guards [24]

Royal Engineers [20]

Army Service Corps [18]

Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) [18]

1st Royal Canadian Regiment [15]

6th Dragoon Guards [15]

Gloucestershire Regiment [14]

1st Dragoon Guards [12]

4th Dragoon Guards [12]

Lancers [12]

Guards Machine Gun Regiment Battalion [11]

Labour Corps [11]

Royal Army Medical Corps [11]

Royal Dragoon Guards [11]

17th Lancers [10]

Cheshire Regiment [10]

Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment [10]

Suffolk Regiment [10]

Essex Regiment [9]

Guards Machine Gun Battalion [9]

North Staffordshire Regiment [9]

3rd Dragoon Guards [8]

Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry) [8]

South Lancashire Regiment [8]

West Yorkshire Regiment [8]

Worcestershire Regiment [8]

4th Royal Canadian Regiment [7]

6th Dragoons [7]

Service

British Army [4798]

Other Empire Force [2]

Canadian Expeditionary Force [1]

Royal Navy [1]

Last name first letter

B [532]

S [438]

H [430]

M [429]

W [421]

C [399]

P [262]

G [245]

R [223]

L [217]

T [193]

D [181]

F [166]

J [136]

A [122]

K [104]

N [86]

E [80]

O [64]

V [27]

I [18]

Y [14]

Q [6]

U [4]

Z [1]

Contribution

Military Service [4794]

Country

United Kingdom [73]

Canada [1]

Egypt [1]

Ireland [1]

Trinidad and Tobago [1]

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Maidstone, Kent [5] London [3] Port-of-Spain [3] Liverpool [2] Reedness, Goole [2] Thanet, Kent [2] Aberffrwd, Cardigan [1] Altrincham [1] Altrincham Cheshire. [1] Arbroath [1] Barnton, Cheshire [1] Bayswater [1] Bedford, Bedfordshire [1] Bexhill [1] Birmingham, Warwickshire [1] Bodle Street, Sussex [1] Brannockstown, Trim, Meath [1] Bridport [1] Brierley Hill, Staffordshire [1] Brockdish Norfolk [1] Bubwith, Yorks [1] Bury, St Ives, Huntingdonshire [1] Camberwell, London [1] Cardiff [1] Carlton, Selby, Yorkshire [1] Charing, Kent [1] Chelsea London [1] Chelsea, London [1] Chingford, Essex [1] Clapham [1] Clerkenwell, London [1] Cloyne, County Cork [1] Corfe, Somerset [1] Corwen, Merionethshire, Wales [1] Crakehall, Bedale, Yorkshire [1] Derby [1] Dodington, Gloucestershire [1] Dorking, Surrey [1] Droylsden, Lancashire [1] Dundalk [1] Earlswood, Reigate, Surrey [1] East Dean, Gloucestershire [1] East Dean, near Chichester [1] East Farndon [1] East Ham, Essex [1] Easter Glackton Petty Invernesshire [1] Eastoft, Lincolnshire [1] Eastry District, Kent [1] Finsbury, Middlesex [1] Folkestone [1]

Rank

Private [2527] Trooper [1113] Sapper [295] Guardsman [275] Corporal [236] Second Lieutenant [162] Lance Corporal [150] Lieutenant [135] Serjeant [92] Acting Corporal [55] Corporal of Horse [55] Private Lance Corporal [48] Captain [45] Lance Serjeant [25] Private Acting Corporal [22] Major [20] Corporal Acting Serjeant [15] Acting Serjeant [12] Shoeing Smith [10] Private /Lance Corporal [9] Temporary Lieutenant [8] Warrant Officer Class 2 [7] Acting Corporal of Horse [6] Company Quarter Master Serjeant [6] Company Serjeant Major [6] Gunner [6] Acting Captain [5] Driver [5] Private Acting Lance Corporal [5] Private Corporal [5] Regimental Serjeant Major [5] Lieutenant Acting Captain [4] Trumpeter [4] Acting Warrant Officer Class 2 [3] Corporal Lance Serjeant [3] Pioneer [3] Private Acting Serjeant [3] Quartermaster Serjeant [3] Regimental Quarter Master Serjeant [3] Saddler [3] Serjeant Private [3] Trooper Lance Corporal [3] Acting Colour Serjeant [2] Acting Major [2] Colour Serjeant [2] Corporal 2nd [2] Corporal Private [2] Corporal Shoeing Smith [2] Corporal Trooper [2] Corporal/Lance Serjeant [2]

Unit

Guards Machine Gun Regiment [4417] Royal Horse Guards [656] Grenadier Guards [503] Life Guards [435] Coldstream Guards [412] Scots Guards [272] Machine Gun Corps [196] Household Battalion [166] Irish Guards [166] Dragoon Guards [159] Welsh Guards [114] Reserve Regiment of Cavalry [113] Machine Gun Corps Cavalry [100] 2nd Life Guards [96] Machine Gun Guards [76] 1st Life Guards [71] Hussars [51] London Regiment [49] Royal Highlanders Guards [44] Royal Canadian Regiment [39] Machine Gun Regiment [27] Royal Warwickshire Regiment [25] 5th Dragoon Guards [24] Royal Engineers [20] Army Service Corps [18] Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) [18] 1st Royal Canadian Regiment [15] 6th Dragoon Guards [15] Gloucestershire Regiment [14] 1st Dragoon Guards [12] 4th Dragoon Guards [12] Lancers [12] Guards Machine Gun Regiment Battalion [11] Labour Corps [11] Royal Army Medical Corps [11] Royal Dragoon Guards [11] 17th Lancers [10] Cheshire Regiment [10] Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment [10] Suffolk Regiment [10] Essex Regiment [9] Guards Machine Gun Battalion [9] North Staffordshire Regiment [9] 3rd Dragoon Guards [8] Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry) [8] South Lancashire Regiment [8] West Yorkshire Regiment [8] Worcestershire Regiment [8] 4th Royal Canadian Regiment [7] 6th Dragoons [7]

Service

British Army [4798] Other Empire Force [2] Canadian Expeditionary Force [1] Royal Navy [1]

Last name first letter

B [532] S [438] H [430] M [429] W [421] C [399] P [262] G [245] R [223] L [217] T [193] D [181] F [166] J [136] A [122] K [104] N [86] E [80] O [64] V [27] I [18] Y [14] Q [6] U [4] Z [1]

Contribution

Military Service [4794]

Country

United Kingdom [73] Canada [1] Egypt [1] Ireland [1] Trinidad and Tobago [1]

Francis Louis Mcleod

Born 1898

British Army 3197 Sapper Guards Machine Gun Regiment

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Eric Wyndham Hubbard

Born 1885

Died 1946

British Army Second Lieutenant Guards Machine Gun Regiment

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Peter Gore

Born 1888

Died 1936

British Army 8088 Private Guards Machine Gun Regiment

British Army Private

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Cornelius William Knight

Born 1899

British Army 2754 Guardsman Guards Machine Gun Regiment

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Raymond Windham De La Poer Beresford-Peirse

Born 1896

Died 1971

British Army Lieutenant Guards Machine Gun Regiment

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Fred Ashworth

Born 1897

Died 1917

British Army 19944 Private Grenadier Guards

British Army 7 Lance Corporal Guards Machine Gun Regiment

British Army Second Lieutenant Northumberland Fusiliers 23rd (4th Tyneside Scottish)

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Walter George Herbert Patterson

Born 1877

British Army 493 Trooper Household Battalion 2nd Battalion

British Army 3787 Trooper Life Guards 1st Battalion

British Army 2242 Trooper Guards Machine Gun Regiment

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Charles Ernest Anstey

Born 1893

Died 1974

British Army 7218 Corporal Irish Guards

British Army 7218 Serjeant Irish Guards

British Army Second Lieutenant Essex Regiment

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Harold Ormrod

Born 1891

Died 1919

British Army 1088 Private Welsh Guards

British Army 1257 Private Guards Machine Gun Regiment

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John Canavan

Born 1892

Died 1918

British Army 8921 Private Scots Guards

British Army 1689 Private Guards Machine Gun Regiment

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George Thompson

Born 1898

Died 1918

British Army 16013 Private Coldstream Guards

British Army 1899 Private Guards Machine Gun Regiment 4th Bn.

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William George Folland

Born 1895

Died 1968

British Army 1381 Private Welsh Guards

British Army 1326 Serjeant Guards Machine Gun Regiment

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Thomas Coonan

Born 1895

Died 1918

British Army 18123 Private Grenadier Guards

British Army 76 Private Guards Machine Gun Regiment

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Leonard George Emerson

Born 1893

Died 1917

British Army 17782 Private Grenadier Guards

British Army 17782 Lance Corporal Grenadier Guards

British Army 108 Corporal Guards Machine Gun Regiment

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Owen Carroll

Died 1918

British Army 1826 Private Irish Guards

British Army 1745 Private Guards Machine Gun Regiment

British Army 1745 Lance Corporal Guards Machine Gun Regiment

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David Anderson

Born 1895

Died 1917

British Army 23287 Private Grenadier Guards

British Army 13 Private Guards Machine Gun Regiment

British Army 13 Private Guards Machine Gun Regiment 4th (Foot Guards) Battalion.

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Thomas V. Hughes

Died 1918

British Army 16070 Private Coldstream Guards

British Army 671 Private Guards Machine Gun Regiment

British Army 671 Lance Corporal Guards Machine Gun Regiment

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John B Webling

Died 1918

British Army 2950 Acting Corporal Life Guards

British Army 4911 Trooper Guards Machine Gun Regiment

British Army 4911 Corporal Guards Machine Gun Regiment

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Walter W Miles

Died 1918

British Army 4029 Trooper Life Guards

British Army 4678 Trooper Guards Machine Gun Regiment

British Army 4678 Private Guards Machine Gun Regiment

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Bertie Stephens

Born 1893

Died 1918

British Army 13792 Private Scots Guards

British Army 964 Private Guards Machine Gun Regiment

British Army 964 Lance Corporal Guards Machine Gun Regiment

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