On This Day | The Western Front Association

08 Apr 1918

Arthur was born in 1896 in Newchurch-in-Pendle, Lancashire. His parents were John Pickles (an antique dealer and Sext...

11 Apr 1918

Jack was born in 1900, in Golcar, Yorkshire, the youngest of five children and of three boys: William and Allen and t...

14 Apr 1918

Wade Stubbs was born in Everton, Liverpool. 1 September 1893. His parents were Wade (a time keeper and store keeper)...

15 Apr 1918

Harold Hubert Thompson was born in 1889 in Smithtown, Kempsey Shire, New South Wales Australia. His father was Capt....

18 Apr 1918

Sam was born in Lancaster in 1877, the son of an agricultural labourer. He lived for much of his life in Gargrave, Yo...

01 May 1918

Ernest Bedbrook was born on 23 April 1879 in Chatham, Kent. He was the son of Rear Admiral James Albert Bedbrook R.N...

06 May 1918

Joseph William Welsh was born on 13 November 1894, in Greensburg, Indiana. Joseph enlisted into the US regular army a...

07 May 1918

John Godfrey was born in Tottenham, London on 26 November 1894. He was the fourth son of Joseph (a chartered secretar...

13 May 1918

Johnnie Whitaker was born in Addingham, Cheshire in 1894. His parents were Jonathan (a labourer from Holbeck) and Emi...

15 May 1918

John Gregson was born in Wellington, Shropshire in 1880. At the 1901 Census John, age 21 was living with his 21 year...

19 May 1918

Benjamin Jackson was born in 20 June 1893, Burnley. His father was Andrew Jackson (a cotton weaver, and a British sub...

22 May 1918

John was born at Hawes, Yorkshire in 1895. Growing up he and his brother Edward went on to help their father who was...