The Western Front Association remembers those who served and died or survived during the First World War.
25 September 1916 Capt. Herbert Meakin killed in action on this d…
25 Sep 1916Capt. Herbert Percy Meakin. 3rd Bn Coldstream Guards, Att Guards Trench Mortar Battery Herbert Percy Meakin was born…
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3 October 1916 Pte John Henry Hargreaves died on this day of his …
03 Oct 1916A weaver from Burnley, Lancashire, John was also a keen footballer and secretary of the Burnley and District Junior Foot…
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11 October 1916 Lt William Robert McCann died of his wounds on th…
11 Oct 1916William Robert McCann was the son of Mr and Mrs James McCann of ‘Fernagh', Whiteabbey, County Antrim. He proceeded to th…
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16 October 1916 Pte James Joynt MM died on this day on the Somme
16 Oct 1916James, the second child of William (an Irishman for Limerick) and Ellen (from Gosport) was born in Derby in January 1882…
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22 October 1916 Rfm Percy Spreadborough was killed during a count…
22 Oct 1916Percy was born on 25 January 1894 in Islington. By 1901 the family had moved to Walthamstow and from 1902-1908, Percy at…
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31 October 1916 Sgt James Sandeman Cunningham died on this day
31 Oct 1916Born at Broughty Ferry, Scotland on 4 May 1885, James emigrated to Canada, where he was employed as a chartered accounta…
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26 January 1917 Pte John Hughes Roberts died on this day
26 Jan 1917700707 Pte John Hughes Roberts, 16th Bn Candian Expeditionary Force Born at Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada on 28 March 1895,…
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22 May 1917 Private Herbert Killian died of his wounds on this da…
22 May 1917Herbert Killian was born in Burnley in the second quarter of 1898. Age 13, in 1911, Herbert was employed in a nut and …
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697054 Pte Alexander Falconer, 31st Bn CEF (Alberta Regt).
28 Jul 1917Alex was a farmer. He enlisted into the army on 12 September 1916 before being sent to the 31st Bn serving in France. Al…
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Inf. Sebastian Scheugenpflug, Kgl.Bayr.Res.Inf.Regt.17
31 Jul 1917Sebastian was a grocer from Lengthal, Bavaria. A recalled reservist in August 1914, he first saw action during the Firs…
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15 August 1917 Pte Samuel Young died on this day
15 Aug 1917At the outbreak of war he was living in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. He enlisted into the Sussex Regiment (as 11948) at Tunbr…
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16 August 1917 Lt Colonel Sir Robert Benyon Nevill Gunter died on…
16 Aug 1917Sir Nevill served as a Lieutenant Colonel (graded as a Staff Lieutenant, 1st Class) in the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battali…
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