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15 Aug 1917

Samuel Young was born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire in the 1890. He was the son of John (a brickmaker) and Elizabet...

16 Aug 1917

Born 4 August 1871 in Wetherby, Yorkshire, Robert (known as Nevill) was the son of the MP for Barkston Ash Division,...

18 Aug 1917

Frederick Hobson was born 23 September 1873 in Norwood, London, the son of John Hobson (a stone mason) and Sarah Hobs...

19 Aug 1917

Okill was born in Quebec City, Canada on 20 February 1894. His parents, William and Martha Learmonth, were from Brita...

28 Aug 1917

A Featured Article from Stand To! No 93 by Peter Starling In today's military medical environment interoperability is...

02 Sep 1917

George Fieldhouse was born in Dewsbury in 1895, the son of Charles (a foreman at a carpet works) and Elizabeth Fieldh...

06 Sep 1917

Born on 31 March 1898, Ravensthorpe, Yorkshire, Bertie was living with his parents, Ephraim and Ellen Howroyd at 93 C...

09 Sep 1917

One of the three Tiberghien brothers to die in the Great War, Jules was born on 22 January 1892 and began his militar...

11 Sep 1917

Born on 24 December 1894, Georges Guynemer was one of the 'highest scoring' French aces of the First World War. Of sl...

14 Sep 1917

Born at Cononley, Yorkshire in 1898, Robert was the youngest of five children born to Charles Walker an accountant an...

17 Sep 1917

Harold Deans was born at 18 Minet Avenue, Willesden, on 29 March 1894, the son of John Deans, an optician, and Nina A...

19 Sep 1917

John Ashworth was born in Burnley in 1898, the son of Joseph and Margaret Ashworth. At the 1901 Census the family co...