The Western Front Association remembers those who served and died or survived during the First World War.
11 February 1889 : Captain John MacGregor VC
11 Feb 1900The third child of William and Hanna MacGregor. John was brought up on a croft at Newlands of Urchany and was baptise…
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23 August 1914 : Serg-farrier Frans Raymond Paqué
23 Aug 1914Born on 1 May 1884 in Dendermonde (Belgium), a small town outside of Brussels to parents Jozef (Joseph) Leopold Paque an…
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26 August 1914 : Lt Sir Robert Cornwallis Maude, 6th Viscount Haw…
26 Aug 1914The first son of Robert Henry Maude, 5th Viscount Hawarden and Caroline Anna Mary (née Ogle). At the time of the 1901…
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1 September 1914 : 2nd Lt George Edward Cecil
01 Sep 1914The son of Lord and Lady Edward Cecil. He had a lifelong ambition to soldier. After Winchester College (1909-12) he pas…
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14 September 1914 : Pte Ernest Scott
14 Sep 1914Ernest was a warehouseman at Spring Mills at Wheatley Lane near Burnley prior to the outbreak of war. A pre-war reservis…
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16 September 1914 : Sdt 2e Cl Marius Labruyere, 158 RI
16 Sep 1914Born at Roanne, Loire on 13 December 1893, Marius' home address was in that town (at 146, Rue Fontalon). He was called …
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20 September 1914 : 2nd Lieut. Roger Marshall
20 Sep 1914The youngest son of five children of parents Anthony and Jessie Marshall of Annstead Farm, Chathill, Northumberland. …
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9 October 1914 : Lieutenant Colonel Aymer Edward Maxwell
09 Oct 1914Educated at Eton and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. HE was a JP, DL and County Councillor for Wigtownshire and a …
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15 October 1914 : Pte Arthur William Heptinstall
15 Oct 1914Parents James (a joiner) and Ann Heptinstall. Arthur was the seventh of their children born between 1864 and 1878. Art…
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17 October 1914 : 146 Cpl Emilien Leger, 99e RI.
17 Oct 1914From Ste Denis de Cabanne, Emilien was called up for his compulsory military service in 1909, he was an active army rese…
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18 October 1914 : Larrett Roebuck
18 Oct 1914By 1901 the Roebuck family had moved to Rotherham and were living in Barker's Yard, off the main High Street, where he s…
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22 October 1914 : Lt Henry Noel Atkinson DSO
22 Oct 1914Henry was the son of the Reverend Arthur Atkinson,Canon of Chester Cathedral, and Ursula Mary Atkinson (née Cotton-Jodre…
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