On This Day | The Western Front Association

24 May 1918

2nd son of the late James (solicitor) and Annie (née Lowe) Age 5 at the 1901 Census, Charles was living at home with hi…

26 May 1918

William, a farmer, enlisted, age 18 into the Australian Imperial Force on 21 February 1916 and embarked from Sydney (f…

27 May 1918

His father James died in 1900, his mother Frances Sophia Collins was from Ireland, died in 1912. In 1966, I visited f…

27 May 1918

Jäger was born at Castelnuovo, Trentino, Austria (now part of Italy) on 31 June 1897. He was a general labourer before t…

30 May 1918

Francis Brunt was a hairdresser in business on Trafalgar Street, Burnely. He lived with his young family at 58 Nairne …

31 May 1918

Youngest son of Robert (a railway booking clerk) and Violet Eliza (née Beck) of Bury Street, Lower Edmonton. At the 190…

01 Jun 1918

His parents were George Street (the local blacksmith) and Eliza Dixon Street (née Thorpe) Hewson was raised in Woodh…

06 Jun 1918

James was a farmer from Reddington, Jackson County, Indiana He enlisted into the US Regular Army at Laredo, Texas on …

10 Jun 1918

Robert was the seventh child and third son of parents John Shepperd Caldwell (a colliery manager, mining engineer and …

11 Jun 1918

Father André was ordained in 1914 and was granted permission to put his vows on hold ‘Before God and in the service of h…

12 Jun 1918

William Ross, age 17, enlisted into the US Marine Corps at Cincinnati, Ohio on 29 December 1917. He trained at Parris…

14 Jun 1918

John McCarthy was a salesman prior to enlisting into the US Marine Corps in New York on 25 January 1910. After four…