The Western Front Association remembers those who served and died or survived during the First World War.
22 August 1932 Dame Janet Stancomb-Wills
22 Aug 1932Following the early death of her father, Janet Stancomb and her sister were adopted by their uncle Sir William Henry Wil…
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9 June 1952 : Captain John MacGregor VC
09 Jun 1952John was the third child of William and Hanna MacGregor. John was brought up on a croft at Newlands of Urchany and …
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Remembering Sydney Constable, 4th Royal Sussex Regiment
12 Dec 1961Sydney was the son of a gamekeeper. By the outbreak of the war he was a coach and motor body builder working for Mr A…
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7 April 2005 Charles Kuentz, age 108, died, Germany's last First …
07 Apr 2005Charles Kuentz was interviewed by Tony Paterson when he was 107 years old in 2004. This photograph shows Charles Kuentz…
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23 December 1915 : Roland A Leighton
23 Dec 2015Roland Leighton was the oldest surviving child of literary parents, Robert Leighton ('man of letters) and Marie (née Con…
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1 August 1918 Cpl Isaac E Holloway
01 Aug 2017Isaac was a graduate of the Marion Conservatory of Music and was a member of the National Military Home Band at the ti…
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4 August 1916 Lieutenant Noel Alexander Target MC
04 Aug 2017The son of Felix Alexander Target MICE, Civil Engineer, Indian Public Works Department, of Donnington, Pinner, and his w…
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6 August 1914 : Charles George McConachy, Royal Navy
06 Aug 2017He was a student of Ballymena Academy. On 3rd August 1905, while a student of Ballymena Academy, he enlisted into t…
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7 August 1915 : L/Cpl Harold Owen
07 Aug 2017His parents were William (then 59) and Rebecca (40). He was christened that September. The parents and older siblings …
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9 August 1915 : CPL Alexander Burton VC
09 Aug 2017On enlisting, age 21 1/2, then an ironmonger, on 18 August 1914, he joined the 7th Battalion Australian Imperial Force…
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10 August 1918 First Lieutenant George L Howard, 53rd Infantry Br…
10 Aug 2017First Lieutenant George L Howard was a resident of Brooklyn, New York and a graduate of Yale University, Class of 1905. …
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11 August 1917 Pte. Foster Yerkess, 2nd Bn Royal Berks Regt.
11 Aug 2017Foster Yerkess was born in Earby, Yorkshire in 1896 to parents Jacob and Mary Ellen, both cotton weavers. At the tim…
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