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07 Sep 1916

George Butt was born in Hawes, Yorkshire in 1895, the first child of Frederick (a railway signalman from Somerset) an...

12 Sep 1916

William Shaw was born in Burnley in 1880. William lived at 61 Finsley Gate in Burnley and was married to Catherine. T...

22 Sep 1916

James Bertram was born 6 December 1889 Dundas, Ontario, Canada. His parents were Scottish born Dr Thomas Bertram and...

25 Sep 1916

Herbert Percy Meakin was born in Poona, Maharashtra, India on 10 January 1891 the son of Henry George Meakin, a brewe...

03 Oct 1916

John Hargreaves was born in Burnley in 1894, the son of John (a coal miner) and Mary. He became a weaver and the fam...

11 Oct 1916

William Robert McCann was born June 1897, Antrim, Ireland, the son of James and Jane McCann of ‘Fernagh', Whiteabbey,...

16 Oct 1916

James, the second child of William (an Irishman for Limerick) and Ellen (from Gosport) was born in Derby in January...

21 Oct 1916

William Beck was born in Haggerston, East London, on 11 February 1893. His family moved to Walthamstow where he atten...

31 Oct 1916

James Cunningham was born at Broughty Ferry, Scotland on 4 May 1885. He emigrated to Canada, where he was employed as...

05 Nov 1916

Charles Illingworth was born 10 November 1891 in South Ossett, Yorkshire, the son of Andrew, a fine cloth drawer and...

14 Nov 1916

Arthur Sharples was born in Burnley in 1898, the son of William Sharples (an assistant newspaper printer) and Lucy Ja...

16 Nov 1916

Theodore was born in Hyde Park, London on 9 April 1897. He was the son of Alexander Constantine Ionides and his wife...