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21 May 1917 : Capt. John Wilson Tailford M.C.

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His parents were Robert (a Tynemouth Engineer) and Sarah (née Wilson)  Age 8 in 1901 John was at home in North Shields. His mother kept a boarding house. At the time of the census there were his mother, two older sisters, a domestic servant and three boarders in their 60s.  John was educated in West Sussex at Christ’s Hospital, Horsham …


21 June 1917 : Major Henry George Vergottini Adler

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His parents were Wilhelm Heinrich and Cecelia (née Virgottini) of Gloucester Crescent, London.  Henry was educated at Army House, Neuenheim College, but resigned after 2 years to study mining and metallurgy at the School of Mines, South Kensington. He was a Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers.  In 1897 he married Miss Ruby Escombe at…