The Western Front Association remembers those who served and died or survived during the First World War.
26 March 1915: Pte Hugh Ching (Alias Hugh William Power)
26 Mar 1915Only son of Richard Ching (Grocer’s Assistant) of 180, Eswyn Road, Tooting and wife Annie. Educated at Stockwell Schoo…
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27 March 1915 : Sgt John Robert Bannister
27 Mar 1915The son of John Bannister, a nut and bolt maker and his wife Mary Ellen, a cotton weaver. At the 1891 there were someho…
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29 March 1915: 2nd Lieut. John Ollis Mullins RFC
29 Mar 1915Parents E. Roscoe Mullins (sculptor) and Alice (née Felton) of West Heath Avenue, Hampstead. 9 January 1907, after t…
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18 April 1915: Pte. Edward Dimmock
18 Apr 1915Parents Jonathan (a general labourer) and Sophie (née Mann) In 1881, Edward, the youngest of 4 children, lived in Gree…
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22 April 1915 : Pte Albert Troughton
22 Apr 1915Son of Nathaniel Troughton (coal Miner) and Ann Elizabeth (née Warner) At the 1901 Census that family lived at 59 Eden…
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26 April 1915 : Captain Percy D’Aguilar Banks
26 Apr 1915Only son of Col Samuel Henry O’Brien of Eaton Place, Brighton, mother Katherine Rosa D'Aguilar (née Burton) daughter o…
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28 April 1915: Pierre Scheurer
28 Apr 1915Pierre left Thann to engage in his compulsory military training with the French Army at Epinal and became an eleve-off…
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30 April 1915: Pte A H Smith
30 Apr 1915A coal-carter with the Nelson Co-operative Society pre war (in the town where he resided – at 7, Cross Street), 21 year …
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2 May 1915 : James Reynolds
02 May 1915Eldest son of James Reynolds (Solicitor) and Annie (née Lowe) in a family of three. In 1901, are 8, the family lived…
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4 May 1915: Capt Godfrey Henry Ermen
04 May 1915His father Francis Ermen was a cotton manufacturer born in Germany, died in 1896. His mother Johanna was also born in Ge…
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5 May 1915 : Pte Herbert M Wightwick
05 May 1915Herbert emigrated to Canada where, at the time of the outbreak of war, he was employed as a clerk in Red Deer, Alberta…
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9 May 1915: Jacques Eugène Valfort
09 May 1915Jacques was in preparation for his compulsory military service when war broke out. Called up into the 17th Infantry …
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