The Western Front Association remembers those who served and died or survived during the First World War.
12 September 1918 : Pte Albert Henry Smither
12 Sep 1918Albert lived in Tottenham and Walthamstow, attending Blackhorse Road Boys’ School from 1904-1909. When he enlisted in A…
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Corporal Henry I Ingersoll, Company K: 15 September 1918
15 Sep 1918His parents were Mr. and Mrs. Oliver W. Ingersoll of 876 Park Place, New York City. Henry Ingersoll graduated from E…
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23 September 1918 : Chief Mot Mech William Howson
23 Sep 1918His father was a railway engine driver. He had six siblings at the 1891 census and ten years later were joined by a nep…
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27 September 1918 Louise de Bettignies (alias 'Alice Dubois') die…
27 Sep 1918Also known as 'The Jean d'Arc of the North', Louise de Bettingnies was born on 15 July 1880 at St.Amand-les-Eaux. Althou…
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20 October 1918 : Cpl Gilbert P Hamilton
20 Oct 1918Gilbert was a machinist by trade. He enlisted into the Indiana National Guard (Co B, 4th Infantry) on 4 May 1917 and w…
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23 October 1918 : Pvt Edward M Beneker US Army
23 Oct 1918A farmer, Edward was drafted into service at Brookville on 29 March 1918 and received his training at Camp Gordon, Geo…
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24 October 1918 : Pte John S Lamberton
24 Oct 1918Parents John and Jessie Lamberton. John was a cabinet maker in the employ of Messrs W Mackenzie & Co prior to th…
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27 October 1918 : Pte Reginald Smith
27 Oct 1918Parents: Alfred (leather currier/bricklayer's assistant) and Bertha Smith In 1901, age 2, Reginald lived at home (3 M…
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4 November 1918 : Gnr Cecil French
04 Nov 1918Son of Arthur (a successful grocery and provision merchant) and Edith French. They lived above the shop at 159 Forest …
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11 November 1918 Pvt (ex-Sgt) Henry Nicolas Gunther, Co A, 313th …
11 Nov 1918Henry was a bank employee prior to his enlistment in September 1917. A supply sergeant in Company A, 313th Infantry Re…
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Sdt Augustin Joseph Louis Victorin Trébuchon, 415e RI.
11 Nov 1918The last French soldier to be killed in action during the Great War, Augustin was born on 30 May 1878 in the small farmi…
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11 November 1918 : Pte George Edwin Ellison
11 Nov 1918Born in York in the early autumn of 1878, at the 1881 England Census, the 2 year old George was living with his father J…
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