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5 April 1917: Lieut. Harry Boustead

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Harry Boustead was born in Surbiton, Surrey on 10 May 1892, the fourth and youngest son of John Boustead and his wife Leila (née Money) of Briar Farm, Edenbridge, Kent.  At the 1901 Census the family lived at Westfield Parkside, Wimbledon with eight servants (nurse, cook, parlourmaid, housemaid, groom, kitchen maid and nursemaid, and above the s...


4 July 1917 : Lord Ian Basil Gawaine Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood

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Ian Basil Gawaine Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood was born at Clandeboye Estate, County Down on 4 November 1870, the fifth child and third son of Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood the 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Ambassador to Russia, Turkey, Italy and France and his mother Hariet Georgina (née Rowa...


Sir John Edward Fowler – the Last Repatriation from The Western Front in 1915?

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By April 1915 the exhumation of bodies from the Western Front and their repatriation was banned.   Historian Richard van Emden identifies the last ‘official’ case of repatriation of a fallen British soldier to be that of Lieutenant William Gladstone, the grandson of former Prime Minister William Gladstone. This took place in April 1915, nine da...


17 March 1917 : 2nd Lieut. David Dennys Fowler, RFC

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David Dennys Fowler was born 20 June 1897, Seawall, Glenelg, South Australia  He was the son of James Fowler and Mary Harriet (née Morgan) both were born in south Australia.  In 1898 David’s six year old brother died. At some point in the next year or so the family moved to England. By the time of the 1901 Census the 3 year old Dennys (as he was...