The Western Front Association remembers those who served and died or survived during the First World War.
29 January 1915 Cpt Henri-Joseph Naudan died of his wounds (1)
27 Jan 1915He was recalled into service at Mende during the first weeks of August 1914. By the end of September, Henri was in actio…
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3 March 1919 Sgt Earl T Steinhart
03 Mar 1915From Wilmington ,Illinois, Earl was born on 14 November 1895. He enlisted into the Quartermaster Corps at Indianapolis, …
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Kaiserschütze Rudolf Huber, k.k. Landesschützen-Regiment ‘Bozen’ …
14 Jul 1915Rudolf Huber was born on 17 January 1881. Recalled as a reservist in July 1914, he saw service in Austria and then Pola…
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13 August 1915 Pte Arthur Moore died when his ship was struck by …
13 Aug 1915Resident at 58, Baron Terrace, Healey Wood, Burnley, Arthur was a weaver at Thompson's Mill, Trafalgar Street at the tim…
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14 August 1915 Pte Samuel Quinn died of his wounds on this day
14 Aug 1915From Burnley, Lancashire where he was still resident (Anne Street) at the time of his enlistment, Samuel (who possibly a…
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28 August 1915 Lt-Colonel Carew Reynell was killed leading a char…
29 Aug 1915The 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment came to Gallipoli in May 1915 and within three months had been reduced to 181 me…
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3 September 1915 Lt William Darnell VC died on this day
03 Sep 1915William was born 6 April 1885 in Collingwood, Melbourne. On 15 April 1907 he married. He was in South Africa when th…
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8 September 1915 Follower Dasarat died in Brighton of illness
08 Sep 1915The son of Jata of Deolali, Nashik, Bombay, India, Dasarat arrived in the UK in October/November 1914. After seeing ser…
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26 September 1915 L/Cpl Harold Chapin was killed in action on thi…
26 Sep 1915Born in Brooklyn, New York on 15 February 1886, Harold was an American citizen who has become regarded as an 'English' a…
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27 September 1916 Captain Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 8th Black Watch
27 Sep 1915The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has changed the commemoration for Captain Fergus Bowes-Lyon, an uncle of Her Maje…
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17 October 1916 L/Cpl Frank Sagar died of his wounds on this day
17 Oct 1915Frank was born in Barnoldswick, Yorkshire in 1895 to parents George and Emma. He would have been a cotton weaver, like h…
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19 October 1915 Pte William Bailey died from dysentery on this da…
19 Oct 1915Born at Mellor (near Blackburn), Lancashire in 1895, William had relocated to West Marton in Yorkshire where he was empl…
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