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22 May 1915

From Stockport, Cheshire, John was born (of English parentage) on 3 January 1887. A clerk in a hat factory in Stockp...

24 May 1915

Harold Strachan Price was born in Godalming, Surrey in 1881, the son of Edward Price, owner of the major forestry and...

04 Jun 1915

Henry Whalley was born at Whernside, Blackburn, Lancashire on 4 February 1896, the son of John James Whalley - a mill...

14 Jun 1915

Charles Burrell was born in Burnley in 1883. He had served for seven years in the volunteers before the war and attai...

25 Jun 1915

Auguste Louis Jeannin was born in Bordeaux on 4 June 1846. He was a veteran of the Franco-German War of 1870 -71 wher...

26 Jul 1915

Paul was re-called to service on 12 August 1914 with the 22nd Battalion Alpin de Chasseurs á Pied (renamed to Battal...

07 Aug 1915

Harold was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire in August 1888, the son of William (then 59) and Rebecca (40). He was chris...

09 Aug 1915

Alexander Stewart Burton was born on 20 January 1893 in Euroa, Victoria in Australia. On enlisting on 18 August 1914,...

13 Aug 1915

Arthur was born in Burnley in 1895, the son of James and Lettice Anne née Howarth. At the 1911 Census Arthur was liv...

14 Aug 1915

Samuel Quinn was born 10 July 1894, Burnley, the son of George and Sarah Jane. At the 1901 Census it would appear tha...

03 Sep 1915

Wilbur Taylor Dartnell was born on 6 April 1885 in Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia, the son of Henry and Rose Ann....

08 Sep 1915

The son of Jata of Deolali, Nashik, Bombay, India, Dasarat arrived in the UK in October/November 1914. After seeing s...