The Western Front Association remembers those who served and died or survived during the First World War.
2 October 1914 Sgt Claude Vialletelle died on this day
02 Oct 1917Born at Busieres, Puy de Dome on 12 April 1891, Claude was serving his compulsory military service at the time of the ou…
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4 October 1918 Nurse Rosa Mary Rapp died of pneumonia
04 Oct 1917Born at Jeffersonville, Indiana on December 6th 1894, Rosa graduated from Louisville City Hospital, Kentucky. She volun…
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5 October 1916 Pte Nelson Blake Pierce died on this day
05 Oct 1917Born at Ailsa Craig, Ontario on 4 May 1896, Nelson was the youngest son of Moses and Salome Pierce. An apiarist by trad…
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6 October 1917 Harold Rowley died of his wounds on this day
06 Oct 1917Born in Priorslee, Shropshire in 1895, Harold worked as the secretary of the Skipton Co-Operative Society prior to enlis…
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7 October 1914 Capt Marcel Rigault was killed in action on this d…
07 Oct 1917Born at Poitiers, Vienne on 13th February 1886, Marcel voluntarily enlisted into the 99e R.I. on 10th October 1906. Pro…
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8 October 1915 Pte Robert H Reeves, 15 years old, died on this da…
08 Oct 1917Robert Reeves was born in Edmonton, Middlesex and enlisted, probably in 1914, in Shoreditch, whilst only fourteen years …
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9 October 1917 Sgt Charles Edgar Salmon died on this day
09 Oct 1917Born at Albany Terrace, Burnley in January 1896, Edgar was educated at St Mary Magdalene's School in the town before goi…
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10 October 1916 Pte Beaumont Wood died of his wounds on this day
10 Oct 1917Beaumont Wood was born in Thornhill in 1888 and before the war worked in the dyehouse at Marshall Kaye and Marshall's mi…
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12 October 1917 Pte Arthur Amos Hardisty died on this day
12 Oct 1917Born at Long Drax near Selby, Yorkshire in 1873, Arthur was a stationer in Barnoldswick before emigrating to Wellington,…
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13 October 1917 Pte Clifford Haley died on this day
13 Oct 1917Clifford Haley was born in Gomersal, West Yorkshire in 1898 to Mr and Mrs Charles Haley. After attending St Saviour's Bo…
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14 October 1917 Private William Haldenby died on this day
14 Oct 1917William would have expected to be safe when, on 14 October 1917 he was returning to Dulwich Camp, near Elverdinghe after…
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26 October 1917 Pte George Towler died on this day
26 Oct 1917Born at Horton in Ribblesdale, Yorkshire on 22 April 1891, George was a grocery clerk in Calgary, Alberta at the time of…
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