The Western Front Association remembers those who served and died or survived during the First World War.
28 August 1917 The Life and Death of Edward Revere Osler
28 Aug 1917A Featured Article from Stand To! No 93 by Peter Starling In today's military medical environment interoperability is a…
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2 September 1917 Pte George Fieldhouse died on this day
02 Sep 1917George was born in Dewsbury to Mr and Mrs Charles Fieldhouse. He enlisted in February 1916 (after working for Critchley,…
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6 September 1917 Pte Bertie Howroyd was killed on this day
05 Sep 1917Bertie Howroyd was born in Ravensthorpe in or about 1898. Living with his parents, Ephraim and Ellen Howroyd at 93 Clark…
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10 September 1917 Sgt Jules Tiberghien died on this day
09 Sep 1917One of the three Tiberghien brothers to die in the Great War, Jules was born on 22 January 1892 and began his military s…
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Georges Guynemer: 11 September 1917
11 Sep 1917Georges Guynemer was one of the 'highest scoring' French aces of the First World War. and of slight build, he was initi…
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13 September 1917 Lance Corporal Vickery DCM was killed in action…
13 Sep 1917James was born in Walthamstow on 17 October 1887. He attended Blackhorse Road Boys’ School from 1905 to 1911. James wa…
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Pte Robert Coates Walker: 14 September 1917
14 Sep 191737118 Pte Robert Coates Walker, 16th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers Robert Walker was a clerk with Messrs.Whitworth, Armst…
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11 September 1917 Capt Georges Guynemer French 'Ace' killed over …
17 Sep 1917Georges Guynemer was one of the 'highest scoring' French aces of the First World War. Born 24 December 1894, and of sli…
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19 September 1918 Signaller John Ashworth died on this day
19 Sep 191737152 Signaller John Ashworth died of his wounds on this day John Ashworth was born in the spring of 1898 to Joseph and…
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20 September 1917 Pte Harry Cockett was killed in action on this …
20 Sep 1917Born in Hawes, Yorkshire in 1898, Harry emigrated to South Africa before the war and was living in Johannesburg, at the …
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28 September 1917 Pte John Dinsdale died on this day
28 Sep 1917From Hawes, Yorkshire, John was conscripted into service in March 1916 and sent to France in July. Invalided home ill in…
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1 October 1917 Private Ernest Mackness died on this day
01 Oct 1917Ernest lost his life on 1 October 1917 not in combat, but in front of a firing squad. Mackness, a regular soldier aged …
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