On This Day | The Western Front Association

22 Apr 1915

Albert Troughton was born 1891 Foleshill, West Midlands, England, the son of Nathaniel Troughton (a coal miner) and A...

25 Apr 1915

Frederick was the son of Mrs F.A. Bamford (formerly Stuckey) of Nelson. Born on 8 April 1877 he was a Master at King'...

26 Apr 1915

Born in Bath on 9 May 1885, Percy was the only son of Col Samuel Henry O’Brien of Eaton Place, Brighton, mother Kathe...

28 Apr 1915

Pierre Scheurer was born at Thann, Alsace (then part of Germany) on 18 October 1887. He left Thann to engage in his c...

30 Apr 1915

Alfred Harold Smith was born in Nelson in 1893. A coal-carter with the Nelson Co-operative Society pre war (in the to...

02 May 1915

James Reynolds was born in Southend on Sea on 18 February 1893. He was the eldest son of James Reynolds (a solicitor...

04 May 1915

Gordfrey was born at Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire in 1877. His father Francis Ermen was a cotton manufacturer born...

05 May 1915

Herbert Wightwick was born in Hastings, Sussex on 27 August 1885. He emigrated to Canada where, at the time of the ou...

09 May 1915

Jacques Eugène Valfort was born at Roanne, Loire on 21 October 1894. Jacques was in preparation for his compulsory mi...

10 May 1915

George Bargh was born in Wray with Botton, near Lancaster in 1890, the son of Isaac Bargh and Helen (née Cumming). A...

11 May 1915

George Gliddon was born at Rodney, Ontario on 6 June 1888. His parents were John Gliddon and Mary née (Baker) A grad...

12 May 1915

Josef was born on 22 August 1893 in Burladingen, Baden. Already a serving soldier at the outbreak of war, he transfer...