The Western Front Association remembers those who served and died or survived during the First World War.
12 August 1914 Lt Robin Reginald Skene, Royal Flying Corps
12 Aug 2017Robert Skene, the son of Felix Skene, the Chief Clerk of the Judicial Office of the House of Lords, was born in Surrey …
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30 September 1918 : Nurse Grace Copeland
30 Sep 2017Born 19 August 1890 at Boone County, Indiana, Grace graduated from Indianapolis City Hospital in 1917 and enlisted as an…
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1 November 1918 : Pte Carl Watson
01 Nov 2017His parents were Edmonson (Watson cotton twister) and Nancy. Carl Watson was employed as a twister in a cotton mill i…
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2 November 1917 : Smn Joseph James Schultz
02 Nov 2017Joseph Schultz emigrated to the USA and was living at Fort Wayne, Indiana when he enlisted into the US Navy on 26 April …
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11 November 1918 Sdt Augustin Trébuchon
11 Nov 2017The last French soldier to be killed in action during the Great War, Augustin was the eldest of five children, Augusti…
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Pte. Edward Leon Hill, 72nd Bn CEF (Seaforth Highlanders of Canad…
09 Aug 2018In 1911 Edward Hill moved with his family to Allen County, Indiana. He enlisted into the Indiana National Guard in Apri…
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Rifleman John Blackmore
09 Aug 2018Born at Mile End on 25 October 1899, John Blackmore attended Blackhorse Road Boys' Elementary School, Walthamstow, from …
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6 July 1916 : Urbain Pierre Rieucau
06 Jul 2019Urbain was a farmer before the war. Having completed his compulsory military service at Rodez in 1911, Urbain was …
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10 August 1918 : 916855 Corporal Harry Cecil Ellis
10 Aug 2019Born 6 September 1891 in Westbury on Trym, Gloucestershire, their fifth child, the son of George and Zenobia Ellis of Pa…
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27 February 1915 : Edward Mandell Stone (Harvard 1908) French For…
27 Feb 2021His father was Henry Baldwin Stone (he died in 1897) and his mother Elizabeth Mandell Stone (who died in 1907). Ed…
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