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22 Jan 1917

His parents were George Mattey (farmer) and Elizabeth Mattey (née Marden). Aged 2 at the 1891 Census, Charles, the...

05 Feb 1917

John Stevenson was born in Ahmednagar, Deccan, India on 19 April 1897 and was the son of Surgeon General Henry Wickha...

06 Feb 1917

Leon was born in Camberley, Surrey in 1898. He was the only son of Major Walter O’Meara and Annie O'Meara of 11 Talga...

07 Feb 1917

Eustace was born in West Kensington on 23 July 1893. He was the only son of Lieut-Col Joseph Fishbourne RAMC, a retir...

08 Feb 1917

On 8 February 1917, HMS Ghurka sank in heavy seas after hitting a German mine off Dungeness. The mines had been laid...

10 Feb 1917

Charles was one of six children of Henry (a nail maker) and Ann Houldsworth. Age 13 Charles was a spinner in a mill...

11 Feb 1917

John was born in 1891 in Castleford in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Before the war he was employed as a house painte...

12 Feb 1917

Robert was born in Skipton in 1895. He was the eldest of five Peter and Martha Spencer. Before the war he was a warp...

18 Feb 1917

John was born in 1890 in Burnley. Before the war he was employed as a cotton weaver but was conscripted into service...

05 Mar 1917

Patrick MacRae (in some records spelt McRae) was born in Beaton’s Lane, Inverness on 12 July 1889, the son of John, a...

07 Mar 1917

James was born in Vancouver on 2 October 1894, the son of Col. James Duff Stuart and his wife, Mary. He was educated...

09 Mar 1917

Edmund Hewitt was born in Burnley in 1893. On the 1911 Census Edmund was one of six children, including parents and a...