The Western Front Association remembers those who served and died or survived during the First World War.
2 July 1916 : L Cpl William Allen
02 Jul 1916The third of six children of Robert Horace (a cotton carder) and Mary Allen. At the time of the 1901 England Census …
Read More7 July 1916 : Pte. William Edward Foster
07 Jul 1916At the 1891 Census William, only 1, appears to have been living at his grandmother's house with his mother and older s…
Read More8 July 1916 : Capitaine Augustin Cochin
08 Jul 1916Son of Denys Cochin (a Parisian deputy in the National Assembly). Educated at the Ecole Nationale des Chartes. Augus…
Read More9 July 1916 : 2/Lieut: Harold Masters Brown MC
09 Jul 1916The third son (of four) of parents William, Head Master of Slinfold Church of England School, Essex and Kezia Harriet …
Read More10 July 1916 : 2/Lt. Cyril Arthur Charles Aitkens
10 Jul 1916Son of Albert John Aitkens, of Paddock Wood, Kent and Ada Louise (née Knight, daughter of the Lord Mayor of London). …
Read More12 July 1916 : A/Cpl. James Albert Jackson
12 Jul 1916One of the five children of Benjamin (a Lancashire born general labourer) and Annie (née Dobson) from Yorkshire. 1881…
Read More13 July 1916 : Gnr William Greenwood
13 Jul 1916William was the youngest of six. His father Charles (a cotton cloth looker and later a gardener) died in July 1983 when …
Read More16 July 1916 : Pte John S.S. Huskisson
16 Jul 1916The Daily Mail reported that John (one of eleven men to arrive in England from Barbados) had made up his mind to enlis…
Read More18 July 1916 : L/CPL Eugene Walter Linley
18 Jul 1916His father Fred was from Huddersfield; his mother was Ellen Louisa. At the 1901 Scotland census records show that th…
Read More19 July 1916 : Corporal John Beresford Bryson
19 Jul 1916John was from of New South Wales, Australia, and he was the son of James and Emily Bryson, of Huskisson, New South Wal…
Read More20 July 1916 : Pte. Alexander McGregor McKenzie
20 Jul 1916He was a farmer. He enlisted at Keswick, South Australia on 7 May 1915 and embarked on overseas service from Adelai…
Read More21 July 1916 : Pte Thomas Rigby
21 Jul 1916Thomas was the son of Thomas E Rigby (a farmer) and Ellen (née Nutter) At the 1901 Census, age 11, Thomas (junior) wa…
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