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26 April 1916: Luit. Arthur Pierre Joseph Ghisain Lupsin
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Arthur Lupsin was born at Furfooz, Namur on 14 September 1890 He was mobilised on 1 August 1914. He saw action at the Battle of Halen on 12 August, and the Battle of the Yser before settling into the static warfare on the Yser front from the winter of 1914 through to 1916. Arthur was killed in action after being fatally shot through the mouth,...
12 May 1915: Musk Josef Abberger
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Josef was born on 22 August 1893 in Burladingen, Baden. Already a serving soldier at the outbreak of war, he transferred to the newly expanded Lehr Infantry Regiment at Potsdam in early 1914 and first saw action at Namur during the invasion of Belgium in August 1914. After moving to the Eastern Front, Josef fought at the 1st Battle of the Masur...
8 June 1919: Lt William ‘Billy’ Nichol Wilson
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Billy Wilson was born 23 August 1899, Dalston, Cumberland. His father was Twentyman Wilson and mother Sarah; they were both from Dalston Cumberland and had agrarian backgrounds: the Wilsons were blacksmiths and wheelwrights, while the Nixons and Nichols on Sarah's side worked a small holdings. Twentyman got work in the then booming industrial t...