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26 Jun 1917

Born at Tottenham, London on 14 July 1885, James was the son of James (a gold jeweller and journeyman) and Emily (née...

28 Jun 1917

Jackson Bacon was born in July 1894 in Haverhill, Essex, England, the son of Stephen Bacon (a coachman/groom) and Jul...

30 Jun 1917

Born at Tranmere, Cheshire on 15 April 1897, Alex was the son of Robert (a coffee shop proprietor) and Annie. Alex mo...

04 Jul 1917

Ian Basil Gawaine Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood was born at Clandeboye Estate, County Down on 4 November 1870, the fifth...

10 Jul 1917

John was an old soldier who had originally enlisted into the 1/East Lancs in 1897 and saw service in the Boer War. A...

11 Jul 1917

Henry van Goethem was born Brussels 25 March 1894, the son of the artist Edward Victor Van Goethem and Lucy Beatrice...

15 Jul 1917

Fred Crabtree was born in Burnley. Lancashire in 1888, the son of Richard Crabtree and mother Margaret. He had an old...

23 Jul 1917

George Sutcliffe was born in Mirfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 18 March 1884. The 49th (West Riding) Divisi...

24 Jul 1917

Albert Hart was born in 1882 in Studham, Hertfordshire, the son of Charles (an agricultural labourer) and Anne (a str...

31 Jul 1917

Edgar Mobbs was born 29 June 1882, in Northampton, the son of Oliver L and Elizabeth Anne Mobbs. He did not make his...

31 Jul 1917

Born in 1894, Lengthal, Bavaria, Sebastian was a grocer. A recalled reservist in August 1914, he first saw action du...

11 Aug 1917

Foster Yerkess was born in Earby, Yorkshire in 1896 to parents Jacob and Mary Ellen, both cotton weavers. At the ti...