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16 May 1917

Tom Spencer was born at Low Close, nr Keighley, Yorkshire in 1893. He was part of a large family, the sixth child of...

17 May 1917

Born in Draughton, Yorkshire in 1898, Dennis was the son of Joseph Holgate (a limestone quarryman) from Yorkshire and...

18 May 1917

Richard Grandin was born 22 July 1892, St.Helier, Jersey, the son of Elias Grandin and Louise (née Alix). Richard...

20 May 1917

James Ewart was born 7 April 1888 in Leeds. His parents were John Ewes of 6 Romilly Road, Cardiff, a jeweller’s manag...

21 May 1917

John Tailford was born 6 March 1893, Tynemouth. His parents were Robert (a Tynemouth Engineer) and Sarah (née Wilson...

22 May 1917

Herbert Killian was born in Burnley in the second quarter of 1898. Age 13, in 1911, Herbert Killian (or variously Kil...

23 May 1917

John Hudson was born at Cononley, North Yorkshire in July, 1895, the son of Wilkinson (a dairy farmer) and Mary Hudso...

25 May 1917

Charles Gill was born in Bradley, Yorkshire in 1896, the son of Amos (a warp dresser) and Annie. At the 1911 Census t...

28 May 1917

Robert Whitelaw was born at Tibbermore, Perthshire in 1895, the son of William and Gertrude Whitelaw. Their home in...

02 Jun 1917

James McCoubrey was born in Ballymoney, Co.Antrim in 1888. His parents were James and Margaret McCoubrey and he was a...

03 Jun 1917

Leonard Davis was born in Forest Hill, London 7 July 1882, the son of the Reverend Owen Davies of Newly and Alice (n...

05 Jun 1917

Herbert Gandy was born in Steyning, Sussex in 1890, the son of John Ripley of Hove and Agnes Elizabeth (née Page) of...