The Western Front Association remembers those who served and died or survived during the First World War.
7 September 1916 : Gnr George Butt
07 Sep 1916George, first born of Frederick (a railway signalman from Somerset) and Mary. By the 1911 Census, George, a farm labo…
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12 September 1916 : Pte William Shaw
12 Sep 1916William lived at 61 Finsley Gate in Burnley and was married to Catherine. They had no children. He enlisted soon aft…
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22 September 1916 : Capt James Knowles Bertram
22 Sep 1916Parents, Scottish born Dr Thomas Bertram and New York born, Scottish, Jean (née Knowles). James was their only child. …
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25 September 1916 : Capt. Herbert Meakin
25 Sep 1916Herbert Percy Meakin was born in Poona, Maharashtra, India on 10 January 1891 the son of Henry George Meakin, a brewer, …
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3 October 1916 : Pte John Hargreaves
03 Oct 1916The son of John (a coal miner) and Mary. John became a weaver and the family lived on Bivel Street, Burnley, Lancashir…
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11 October 1916 : 2nd Lt William Robert McCann
11 Oct 1916William Robert McCann was the son of Mr and Mrs James McCann of ‘Fernagh', Whiteabbey, County Antrim. At the 1901 Ce…
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16 October 1916 : Pte James Joynt MM
16 Oct 1916James, the second child of William (an Irishman for Limerick) and Ellen (from Gosport) was born in Derby in January 18…
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31 October 1916 : Sgt James Sandeman Cunningham
31 Oct 1916James Cunningham emigrated to Canada, where he was employed as a chartered accountant in Montréal at the time of the o…
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5 November 1916 : Pte Charles Illingworth
05 Nov 1916Charles Wilton Illingworth, the son of Andrew, a fine cloth drawer and Sarah was christened on Christmas Day at South …
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14 November 1916 : Pte Arthur Sharples
14 Nov 1916His parents were William Sharples (an assistant newspaper printer) and Lucy Jane (née Pomroy). Age 4 at the 1901 Cen…
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25 November 1916 : Pte Thomas Dawson
25 Nov 1916Thomas's father Michael was a coal miner. As the children got older they too found work in the mine, which is where…
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27 November 1916 : Pte Joshua J Mitchell
27 Nov 1916Joshua was the youngest son of four surviving children. His father Arthur Mitchell was a rag trader, his mother was Su…
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