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Place of birth

Aldershot [1]

Barrow Mills, Queen's county [1]

Baylham [1]

Bletchington Park, Oxford [1]

Croydon, Surrey [1]

East Clandon, Surrey [1]

Forest Gate, Epping [1]

Greenwich, South London [1]

Guildford [1]

High Wycombe, Berkshire [1]

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire [1]

Isleworth, Middlesex [1]

Kensworth, Dunstable, Bedfordshire [1]

Kingswood [1]

London [1]

London England [1]

Marston St Lawrence, Oxfordshire [1]

North Walsham, Norfolk [1]

Northampton [1]

Shadwell, Middlesex [1]

Sheffield [1]

Soham, Cambridgeshire [1]

St. Pancras, London [1]

Tring [1]

Tring, Herts [1]

Wandsworth, London [1]

Wing [1]

Woolwich, Kent [1]

Rank

Private [305]

Second Lieutenant [55]

Lieutenant [42]

Serjeant [34]

Lance Corporal [33]

Corporal [26]

Captain [19]

Trooper [11]

Major [9]

Sapper [8]

Acting Serjeant [3]

Lance Serjeant [3]

Lieutenant Colonel [3]

Shoeing Smith [3]

Staff Quartermaster Serjeant [3]

Company Quarter Master Serjeant [2]

Sergeant [2]

Shoeing Smith Corporal [2]

Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant [2]

Squadron Serjeant Major [2]

Staff Serjeant [2]

Staff Serjeant Major [2]

1017 [1]

2nd Lieutenant [1]

Acting Captain [1]

Acting Corporal [1]

Acting Major [1]

Acting Regimental Serjeant Major [1]

Acting Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant [1]

Acting Staff Quarter Master Serjeant [1]

Aircraftman Class Two [1]

Battery Quarter Master Serjeant [1]

Bombardier [1]

Cor [1]

Corporal (Pensioned) [1]

Corporal Acting Serjeant [1]

Flight Cadet [1]

Flight Sergeant [1]

Gunner [1]

Honorary Lieutenant [1]

Interpreter [1]

Major /Acting Lieutenant Colonel [1]

Pilot Officer [1]

Pioneer [1]

Private Shoeing Smith [1]

Private Trooper [1]

Regimental Quarter Master Serjeant [1]

Saddler Corporal [1]

Second Aircraftman [1]

Sergeant Mechanic [1]

Unit

Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars [347]

Corps of Hussars [127]

Buckinghamshire Yeomanry [104]

Machine Gun Corps [36]

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [36]

Royal Engineers [26]

Buckinghamshire Hussars [19]

Machine Gun Corps Cavalry [19]

Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry [15]

Royal Warwickshire Regiment [10]

1st Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars [9]

Hussars [9]

Royal Flying Corps [8]

Labour Corps [7]

Royal Air Force [6]

Royal Army Service Corps [6]

Royal Berkshire Regiment [6]

Army Service Corps [5]

London Regiment [5]

Northumberland Fusiliers [5]

Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars [5]

Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry [5]

1/1st Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars [4]

Royal Bucks Hussars [4]

2/1st Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars [3]

Imperial Camel Corps [3]

Northumberland Hussars [3]

Oxfordshire Hussars [3]

Reserve Cavalry Regiment [3]

Royal Fusiliers [3]

City of London Yeomanry [2]

County of London Yeomanry [2]

Fife and Forfar Yeomanry [2]

King's Royal Rifle Corps [2]

Leicestershire Regiment [2]

Lincolnshire Regiment [2]

Middlesex Regiment [2]

Northamptonshire Yeomanry [2]

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Attached Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars [2]

Reserve Regiment of Cavalry [2]

Rifle Brigade [2]

Royal Artillery [2]

Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars attached Machine Gun Corps [2]

Royal Field Artillery [2]

Royal Sussex Regiment [2]

Royal West Surrey Regiment [2]

1/1st Buckinghamshire Yeomanry (Royal Bucks Hussars) [1]

1/1st Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry [1]

1/1st attached 2/1st Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars [1]

10th (Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars [1]

Service

British Army [449]

Air Force (RAF/RFC) [4]

Last name first letter

B [48]

C [45]

H [40]

S [38]

M [33]

R [31]

P [28]

L [26]

W [23]

D [22]

G [22]

F [20]

T [16]

A [13]

N [9]

J [8]

K [8]

E [7]

V [4]

O [3]

I [2]

Y [2]

U [1]

Contribution

Military Service [446]

Country

United Kingdom [13]

Canada [1]

United States [1]

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Place of birth

Aldershot [1] Barrow Mills, Queen's county [1] Baylham [1] Bletchington Park, Oxford [1] Croydon, Surrey [1] East Clandon, Surrey [1] Forest Gate, Epping [1] Greenwich, South London [1] Guildford [1] High Wycombe, Berkshire [1] High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire [1] Isleworth, Middlesex [1] Kensworth, Dunstable, Bedfordshire [1] Kingswood [1] London [1] London England [1] Marston St Lawrence, Oxfordshire [1] North Walsham, Norfolk [1] Northampton [1] Shadwell, Middlesex [1] Sheffield [1] Soham, Cambridgeshire [1] St. Pancras, London [1] Tring [1] Tring, Herts [1] Wandsworth, London [1] Wing [1] Woolwich, Kent [1]

Rank

Private [305] Second Lieutenant [55] Lieutenant [42] Serjeant [34] Lance Corporal [33] Corporal [26] Captain [19] Trooper [11] Major [9] Sapper [8] Acting Serjeant [3] Lance Serjeant [3] Lieutenant Colonel [3] Shoeing Smith [3] Staff Quartermaster Serjeant [3] Company Quarter Master Serjeant [2] Sergeant [2] Shoeing Smith Corporal [2] Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant [2] Squadron Serjeant Major [2] Staff Serjeant [2] Staff Serjeant Major [2] 1017 [1] 2nd Lieutenant [1] Acting Captain [1] Acting Corporal [1] Acting Major [1] Acting Regimental Serjeant Major [1] Acting Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant [1] Acting Staff Quarter Master Serjeant [1] Aircraftman Class Two [1] Battery Quarter Master Serjeant [1] Bombardier [1] Cor [1] Corporal (Pensioned) [1] Corporal Acting Serjeant [1] Flight Cadet [1] Flight Sergeant [1] Gunner [1] Honorary Lieutenant [1] Interpreter [1] Major /Acting Lieutenant Colonel [1] Pilot Officer [1] Pioneer [1] Private Shoeing Smith [1] Private Trooper [1] Regimental Quarter Master Serjeant [1] Saddler Corporal [1] Second Aircraftman [1] Sergeant Mechanic [1]

Unit

Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars [347] Corps of Hussars [127] Buckinghamshire Yeomanry [104] Machine Gun Corps [36] Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [36] Royal Engineers [26] Buckinghamshire Hussars [19] Machine Gun Corps Cavalry [19] Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry [15] Royal Warwickshire Regiment [10] 1st Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars [9] Hussars [9] Royal Flying Corps [8] Labour Corps [7] Royal Air Force [6] Royal Army Service Corps [6] Royal Berkshire Regiment [6] Army Service Corps [5] London Regiment [5] Northumberland Fusiliers [5] Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars [5] Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry [5] 1/1st Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars [4] Royal Bucks Hussars [4] 2/1st Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars [3] Imperial Camel Corps [3] Northumberland Hussars [3] Oxfordshire Hussars [3] Reserve Cavalry Regiment [3] Royal Fusiliers [3] City of London Yeomanry [2] County of London Yeomanry [2] Fife and Forfar Yeomanry [2] King's Royal Rifle Corps [2] Leicestershire Regiment [2] Lincolnshire Regiment [2] Middlesex Regiment [2] Northamptonshire Yeomanry [2] Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Attached Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars [2] Reserve Regiment of Cavalry [2] Rifle Brigade [2] Royal Artillery [2] Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars attached Machine Gun Corps [2] Royal Field Artillery [2] Royal Sussex Regiment [2] Royal West Surrey Regiment [2] 1/1st Buckinghamshire Yeomanry (Royal Bucks Hussars) [1] 1/1st Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry [1] 1/1st attached 2/1st Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars [1] 10th (Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars [1]

Service

British Army [449] Air Force (RAF/RFC) [4]

Last name first letter

B [48] C [45] H [40] S [38] M [33] R [31] P [28] L [26] W [23] D [22] G [22] F [20] T [16] A [13] N [9] J [8] K [8] E [7] V [4] O [3] I [2] Y [2] U [1]

Contribution

Military Service [446]

Country

United Kingdom [13] Canada [1] United States [1]

Herbert Love

Died 1915

British Army 1684 Private Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army 1684 Private Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars

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Kenneth Healing

Born 1893

Died 1917

British Army 1585 Private Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars

British Army Second Lieutenant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment

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Reginald George Buckell

Born 1894

Died 1915

British Army 1699 Private Buckinghamshire Hussars

British Army 1699 Private Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars

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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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Arnold Cartledge

Born 1894

Died 1917

British Army 251327 Private Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army 251327 Private Corps of Hussars

British Army 251327 Private Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars 1st/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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Frederick George Hooper

Born 1884

Died 1916

British Army 1520 Lance Corporal Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars 1st

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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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Ernest Darlington

Born 1894

Died 1917

British Army 1156 Private Buckinghamshire Hussars

British Army 1156 Private Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army 205296 Private Corps of Hussars

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George Tapping

Died 1915

British Army 1631 Private Buckinghamshire Hussars

British Army 1631 Private Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

British Army 1631 Corps of Hussars

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Richard Manning

Born 1890

Died 1960

British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars

British Army Acting Major Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars

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Charles Henry Bennett

Died 1918

British Army Lieutenant Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars

British Army Captain Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars

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Charles Bridger

Born 1897

Died 1917

British Army 1867 Private Buckinghamshire Hussars

British Army 205552 Private Corps of Hussars

British Army 205552 Private Royal Buckinghamshire 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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Wilfred Harold Whincup

Born 1892

Died 1963

British Army Trooper Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars Territorial Force

Air Force (RAF/RFC) 24310 Sergeant Royal Flying Corps

Air Force (RAF/RFC) 24310 Sergeant Mechanic Royal Air Force

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Alfred Burnham

Born 1894

Died 1915

British Army 1119 Private Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars

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J Cook

Died 1915

British Army 1743 Private Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars

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John Henry Cannon

Born 1897

Died 1916

British Army 3130 Private Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars

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