Skip to main content

Lives of the First World War

Discover, explore and remember millions of personal stories from the First World War

Main navigation

Home
Life Stories
Communities
About

Search found 1130 results

Advanced search

Search

Advanced

Search field

Filters

Type

People [1130]

Stories

Communities

Place of birth

Liverpool [5]

Blackburn, Lancashire [2]

Annalong, Northern Ireland [1]

Ardentinney, near Dunoon, Argyll [1]

Beswick, Lancashire [1]

Birkenhead [1]

Birkenhead, Cheshire [1]

Blithfield [1]

Bradford [1]

Bristol [1]

Chelmsford, Essex [1]

East Ravendale, Lincolnshire [1]

Glasgow [1]

Grimsby [1]

Higher Tranmere, Birkenhead, Cheshire [1]

Hull, Yorkshire [1]

Kirkdale, Liverpool [1]

LONDON [1]

Little Crosby, Lancashire [1]

London, Middlesex [1]

Lytham St Annes, Fylde Borough, Lancashire [1]

Manchester, Lancashire [1]

Newton in Makerfield [1]

Newton in Makerfield, Lancashire [1]

Rochdale, Lancashire [1]

Sowerby, Thirsk, Yorkshire [1]

Thanet, Kent [1]

Tooting, Surrey [1]

Wellington [1]

Wigan [1]

Writtle, Essex [1]

uppermill [1]

Rank

Private [787]

Second Lieutenant [109]

Serjeant [99]

Corporal [79]

Lieutenant [53]

Lance Corporal [46]

Captain [33]

Major [18]

Sapper [10]

Lieutenant Colonel [6]

Staff Quarter Master Serjeant [6]

Acting Corporal [5]

Warrant Officer Class 2 [5]

Acting Serjeant [4]

Driver [4]

Shoeing Smith [4]

Trooper [4]

Acting Captain [3]

Colour Serjeant [3]

Lance Serjeant [3]

Regimental Serjeant Major [3]

Able Seaman [2]

Acting Lance Corporal [2]

Acting Lieutenant Colonel [2]

Acting Warrant Officer Class 1 [2]

Company Serjeant Major [2]

Pioneer [2]

Quarter Master and Lieutenant [2]

Regimental Quarter Master Serjeant [2]

Serjeant Major [2]

Shoeing Smith Corporal [2]

Staff Serjeant [2]

Staff Serjeant Major [2]

2nd Lieutenant [1]

: Lieutenant [1]

Acting Lance Serjeant [1]

Acting Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant [1]

Acting Squadron Serjeant Major [1]

Acting Warrant Officer Class 2 [1]

ActingSquadron Quarter Master Serjeant [1]

Air Mechanic 1st Class [1]

Air Mechanic 2nd Class [1]

Brigadier General [1]

Cadet [1]

Captain (Temporary Major) [1]

Captain Temporary Major [1]

Colonel [1]

Commander [1]

Commissary [1]

Company Quarter Master Serjeant [1]

Unit

Lancashire Hussars [761]

Liverpool Regiment [332]

Corps of Hussars [266]

Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry [123]

Lancashire Fusiliers [84]

South Lancashire Regiment [50]

Labour Corps [46]

Royal Engineers [42]

East Lancashire Regiment [37]

Hussars [37]

Loyal North Lancashire Regiment [33]

King's Liverpool Regiment [24]

The King's (Liverpool Regiment) [24]

Military Mounted Police [20]

Tank Corps [20]

1st Lancashire Hussars [18]

Army Service Corps [16]

Machine Gun Corps [16]

2/1st Lancashire Hussars [12]

Machine Gun Corps Cavalry [12]

Oxfordshire Yeomanry [8]

Royal Field Artillery [8]

Border Regiment [6]

Royal Army Service Corps [6]

Royal Flying Corps [6]

The King's (Liverpool) Regiment [6]

20th Hussars [5]

Buckinghamshire Yeomanry [5]

Dorset Yeomanry [5]

London Regiment [5]

Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment [5]

15th Hussars [4]

Imperial Camel Corps [4]

Lancashire Regiment [4]

Middlesex Regiment [4]

Northumberland Hussars [4]

Royal Air Force [4]

Royal Fusiliers [4]

Royal Garrison Artillery [4]

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers [4]

Royal Lancaster Regiment [4]

South Nottinghamshire Hussars [4]

3rd Hussars [3]

7th King's Liverpool Regiment [3]

8th Hussars [3]

Corps of Hussars attached King's African Rifles [3]

Denbigh Yeomanry [3]

Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry [3]

Lancashire Yeomanry [3]

North Lancashire Hussars [3]

Service

British Army [1130]

Air Force (RAF/RFC) [5]

Royal Navy [2]

Canadian Expeditionary Force [1]

Last name first letter

B [111]

H [111]

W [98]

S [88]

C [87]

M [80]

R [66]

G [60]

T [59]

L [58]

P [58]

D [48]

A [42]

J [39]

F [32]

O [21]

E [18]

K [17]

N [14]

I [6]

V [6]

Y [6]

U [4]

Q [1]

Contribution

Military Service [1125]

Country

United Kingdom [26]

New Zealand [1]

Page 1 of 57

Pagination

1
2
3
57
Next

Type

People [1130] Stories Communities

Place of birth

Liverpool [5] Blackburn, Lancashire [2] Annalong, Northern Ireland [1] Ardentinney, near Dunoon, Argyll [1] Beswick, Lancashire [1] Birkenhead [1] Birkenhead, Cheshire [1] Blithfield [1] Bradford [1] Bristol [1] Chelmsford, Essex [1] East Ravendale, Lincolnshire [1] Glasgow [1] Grimsby [1] Higher Tranmere, Birkenhead, Cheshire [1] Hull, Yorkshire [1] Kirkdale, Liverpool [1] LONDON [1] Little Crosby, Lancashire [1] London, Middlesex [1] Lytham St Annes, Fylde Borough, Lancashire [1] Manchester, Lancashire [1] Newton in Makerfield [1] Newton in Makerfield, Lancashire [1] Rochdale, Lancashire [1] Sowerby, Thirsk, Yorkshire [1] Thanet, Kent [1] Tooting, Surrey [1] Wellington [1] Wigan [1] Writtle, Essex [1] uppermill [1]

Rank

Private [787] Second Lieutenant [109] Serjeant [99] Corporal [79] Lieutenant [53] Lance Corporal [46] Captain [33] Major [18] Sapper [10] Lieutenant Colonel [6] Staff Quarter Master Serjeant [6] Acting Corporal [5] Warrant Officer Class 2 [5] Acting Serjeant [4] Driver [4] Shoeing Smith [4] Trooper [4] Acting Captain [3] Colour Serjeant [3] Lance Serjeant [3] Regimental Serjeant Major [3] Able Seaman [2] Acting Lance Corporal [2] Acting Lieutenant Colonel [2] Acting Warrant Officer Class 1 [2] Company Serjeant Major [2] Pioneer [2] Quarter Master and Lieutenant [2] Regimental Quarter Master Serjeant [2] Serjeant Major [2] Shoeing Smith Corporal [2] Staff Serjeant [2] Staff Serjeant Major [2] 2nd Lieutenant [1] : Lieutenant [1] Acting Lance Serjeant [1] Acting Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant [1] Acting Squadron Serjeant Major [1] Acting Warrant Officer Class 2 [1] ActingSquadron Quarter Master Serjeant [1] Air Mechanic 1st Class [1] Air Mechanic 2nd Class [1] Brigadier General [1] Cadet [1] Captain (Temporary Major) [1] Captain Temporary Major [1] Colonel [1] Commander [1] Commissary [1] Company Quarter Master Serjeant [1]

Unit

Lancashire Hussars [761] Liverpool Regiment [332] Corps of Hussars [266] Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry [123] Lancashire Fusiliers [84] South Lancashire Regiment [50] Labour Corps [46] Royal Engineers [42] East Lancashire Regiment [37] Hussars [37] Loyal North Lancashire Regiment [33] King's Liverpool Regiment [24] The King's (Liverpool Regiment) [24] Military Mounted Police [20] Tank Corps [20] 1st Lancashire Hussars [18] Army Service Corps [16] Machine Gun Corps [16] 2/1st Lancashire Hussars [12] Machine Gun Corps Cavalry [12] Oxfordshire Yeomanry [8] Royal Field Artillery [8] Border Regiment [6] Royal Army Service Corps [6] Royal Flying Corps [6] The King's (Liverpool) Regiment [6] 20th Hussars [5] Buckinghamshire Yeomanry [5] Dorset Yeomanry [5] London Regiment [5] Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment [5] 15th Hussars [4] Imperial Camel Corps [4] Lancashire Regiment [4] Middlesex Regiment [4] Northumberland Hussars [4] Royal Air Force [4] Royal Fusiliers [4] Royal Garrison Artillery [4] Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers [4] Royal Lancaster Regiment [4] South Nottinghamshire Hussars [4] 3rd Hussars [3] 7th King's Liverpool Regiment [3] 8th Hussars [3] Corps of Hussars attached King's African Rifles [3] Denbigh Yeomanry [3] Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry [3] Lancashire Yeomanry [3] North Lancashire Hussars [3]

Service

British Army [1130] Air Force (RAF/RFC) [5] Royal Navy [2] Canadian Expeditionary Force [1]

Last name first letter

B [111] H [111] W [98] S [88] C [87] M [80] R [66] G [60] T [59] L [58] P [58] D [48] A [42] J [39] F [32] O [21] E [18] K [17] N [14] I [6] V [6] Y [6] U [4] Q [1]

Contribution

Military Service [1125]

Country

United Kingdom [26] New Zealand [1]

Wilfred Lewis

Born 1885

British Army 337 Serjeant Lancashire Hussars

British Army 250037 Serjeant Corps of Hussars

British Army 337 Sergeant Lancashire Hussars 'D' Squadron

…

More about Wilfred Lewis
Algernon Montrion Tollemache

Born 1884

Died 1964

British Army Second Lieutenant Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry

British Army Lieutenant Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry

British Army Captain Lancashire Fusiliers

More about Algernon Montrion Tollemache
John Hacking

Born 1898

Died 1942

British Army 251155 Private Lancashire Hussars 2nd/1st

More about John Hacking
Thomas Geoffrey Rawstorne

Born 1879

Died 1917

British Army Captain Lancashire Hussars

British Army Major Lancashire Hussars

More about Thomas Geoffrey Rawstorne
Robert Atkinson

Born 1895

Died 1972

British Army 662 Private Lancashire Hussars

British Army 662 Private Oxfordshire Yeomanry

British Army 250100 Private Corps of Hussars

…

More about Robert Atkinson
Ernest Reason

Born 1890

Died 1919

British Army 1089 Lance Corporal Lancashire Hussars

More about Ernest Reason
John Stanley Edwards

Born 1893

Died 1918

British Army Acting Captain Lancashire Hussars

British Army Captain Lancashire Hussars

More about John Stanley Edwards
Alfred Edward O'neill

Born 1890

Died 1917

British Army 2006/40400 Private Lancashire Hussars

British Army Second Lieutenant King's (Liverpool Regiment) 7th Battalion (Territorials)

More about Alfred Edward O'neill
Jeremiah Brennan

Born 1892

Died 1918

British Army Lieutenant Lancashire Hussars Territorial Force

British Army Lieutenant Lancashire Hussars Intelligence Service

More about Jeremiah Brennan
William Mckenzie

Died 1917

British Army 251279 Private Lancashire Hussars.

British Army H/251279 Private Lancashire Hussars

More about William Mckenzie
Percival Norman Fry

Born 1896

Died 1917

British Army 1821 Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry

British Army 204443 Private The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 1st/5th Battalion

More about Percival Norman Fry
Charles Henry

Born 1890

Died 1918

British Army 251414 Lancashire Hussars

British Army 40433 Private Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry

British Army 260431 Private Border Regiment 7th (Westmoreland and Cumberland Yeomanry) Battalion

More about Charles Henry
James Arthur Roberts

Born 1898

Died 1918

British Army 251144 Private Lancashire Hussars

More about James Arthur Roberts
Cyril Dewhurst

Born 1874

British Army Major Lancashire Hussars

More about Cyril Dewhurst
William Kenyon

Died 1918

British Army 250989 Private Lancashire Hussars

More about William Kenyon
William Laird

Born 1898

Died 1918

British Army H/34550 Private Lancashire Hussars

More about William Laird
Geoffrey Aspinall

Born 1884

British Army Captain Lancashire Hussars

British Army Captain Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry

More about Geoffrey Aspinall
Charles Brierley

Died 1917

British Army 565 Corporal Lancashire Hussars

British Army 250068 Corporal Corps of Hussars

British Army 250068 Corporal Lancashire Hussars

More about Charles Brierley
Edward Wright

Born 1891

Died 1917

British Army 1934 Private Lancashire Hussars

British Army 250847 Private Corps of Hussars

British Army 250847 Private Lancashire Hussars

More about Edward Wright
Walter Tidder

Born 1889

Died 1921

British Army 677 Private Lancashire Hussars

British Army 250107 Private Corps of Hussars

British Army 250107 Corporal Lancashire Hussars

More about Walter Tidder

Page 1 of 57

Pagination

1
2
3
57
Next

Imperial War Museums home Visit IWM site

Lives of the First World War content is covered by the terms of the IWM Non-Commercial Licence

Accessibility statement Privacy and cookies Copyright