On This Day | The Western Front Association

24 Sep 1917

Born in Alnwick, Northumberland 27 November 1877, Tommy Egdell was one of ten children of Robert (a labourer) and Tho...

28 Sep 1917

John Dinsdale was born in 1893, Hawes, Yorkshire, the son of stonemason, William and mother Ann (née Taylor). John...

01 Oct 1917

Ernest lost his life on 1 October 1917 not in combat, but in front of a firing squad. Mackness, a regular soldier ag...

02 Oct 1917

Claude Vialletelle was born in Busieres, Puy de Dome, France on 12 April 1891. He was serving his compulsory military...

04 Oct 1917

Rosa Rapp was born at Jeffersonville, Indiana on December 6th 1894, the daughter of German born Fridolin (Fred) and...

05 Oct 1917

Nelson Pierce was born at Ailsa Craig, Ontario on 4 May 1896. He was the youngest of the nine children born between...

06 Oct 1917

Harold Rowley was born in Priorslee, Shropshire in 1895, the son of John and Sarah (née Owen). At the 1901 Census, a...

07 Oct 1917

Marcel Rigault was born at Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France on 13 February 1886. He enlisted voluntarily in...

08 Oct 1917

Robert's father Edward, had been a rage warehouseman at the 1901 Census and was a general labourer at the time of th...

09 Oct 1917

Charles Edgar Salmon was born in Burnley, Lancashire in 1896. He was known as Edgar. He was educated at St Mary Magda...

10 Oct 1917

Beaumont Wood was born in Thornhill in January 1888. At the 1891 Census, age 3 Beaumont was the youngest of five chil...

12 Oct 1917

Amos Arthur Hardisty was born at Drax Abbey near Selby, Yorkshire on 19 August 1873, the son of Amos and Hannah Hardi...