14 November 1916 : Pte Arthur Henry Sharples

14 November 1916 : Pte Arthur Henry Sharples

14 Nov 1916

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

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16 November 1916 : 2nd Lt Theodore Ionides

16 November 1916 : 2nd Lt Theodore Ionides

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...

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25 November 1916 : Pte Thomas Dawson

25 November 1916 : Pte Thomas Dawson

25 Nov 1916

Thomas's father Michael was a coal miner. As the children got older they too found work in the mine, which is where w...

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27 November 1916 : Pte Joshua Mitchell

27 November 1916 : Pte Joshua Mitchell

27 Nov 1916

Joshua J Mitchell was born in Ossett 24 December 1895, the youngest son of four surviving children. His father Arthur...

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15 December 1916: Pte Nicholas Joseph Mann

15 December 1916: Pte Nicholas Joseph Mann

15 Dec 1916

Nicholas Mann was born on 8 June 1880 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, the son of a shoe maker and later cabinet maker...

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26 December 1916 : 2nd Lt George Edward Kingsley Bemand

26 December 1916 : 2nd Lt George Edward Kingsley Bemand

26 Dec 1916

George Bemand was born on 9 Mar 1892 in Kingston, Jamaica, the eldest of four children of Mary Ann Bemand (also known...

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31 December 1916 : Staff Nurse Kate Rosina Sturt

31 December 1916 : Staff Nurse Kate Rosina Sturt

31 Dec 1916

Kate's parents were William Sturt (a retired Company Sergeant Major in the Royal Garrison Artillery) and Kate Jane Co...

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4 January 1917 : Captain Frederick Courtenay Selous

4 January 1917 : Captain Frederick Courtenay Selous

04 Jan 1917

Frederick Lokes Selous was born 31 December 1851 in Hatherley, Gloucestershire, England. He was the son of Frederick...

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8 January 1917: PTE James Tongue

8 January 1917: PTE James Tongue

08 Jan 1917

Pte 11850 J. Tongue of the 1st King's Liverpool Regiment was executed after a trial for desertion, the execution taki...

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9 January 1917 :  Major Henry Clifford

9 January 1917 : Major Henry Clifford

09 Jan 1917

He was the son of Henry James and Annie Frances (née Hilton-Green) of Frampton Court, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire.  A...

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11 January 1917: Pte James Banks

11 January 1917: Pte James Banks

11 Jan 1917

His father was William and his mother, Elizabeth (née Thornberry).  James had five brothers and four sisters. Two br...

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13 January 1917: A/Cpl Francis Howard Bell

13 January 1917: A/Cpl Francis Howard Bell

13 Jan 1917

The son of Thomas Burice Bell (a commercial traveller selling rice and spices) and Elizabeth. At the 1901 Census youn...

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