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21 August 1918 : Sgt Sebastian Mitterhofer, 7 Komp, Kgl Bay 10 Inf Regt ‘König'.
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He was married with one child. At the outbreak of the war he was an office worker in Weisenberg, Bavaria. An active reservist, he therefore saw service from the very earliest days of the war. He was in action from August 1914 in Lorraine, then on the Meuse, at Verdun, the Somme, Arras, Third Ypres, Cambrai, Dixmude and Verdun (1918) to Augus...
29 October 1914 : Pte John Bradley
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John Bradley was born in Burnley in 1890. Living at 113 Sandygate, Burnley at the time of his re-enlistment in August 1914, he had originally seen boy service with the Manchesters since late September 1901. A recalled reservist, he landed in France on 8 October 1914 seeing service in the area of Richebourg. Whilst holding the line in the vicinit...
21 December 1914 : A/Cpl Simon Bennett
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Simon Bennett was born in Burnley, Lancashire in 1884, one of seven children. After a number of years as a coal miner, Simon Bennett had enlisted into the army in 1904. After spending most of his service in India, Simon returned home and, while still held on the reserve, he became employed as a miner at the Towneley colliery in Burnley. He had...
25 April 1916: Louis Amans Jean dit Vareillese
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Born at Espeyrac, Aveyron on 13 October 1884, Louis was a farmer. He had completed his compulsory military service in 1907 and was, therefore, an active army reservist upon the outbreak of war. Recalled into service at Rodez on 3 August 1914, Louis saw his first action at Bisping, Moselle, during the Battle of Lorraine on 18 August 1914 where...
18 April 1916: Pte Sam Naylor
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Sam was born in Lancaster in 1877, the son of an agricultural labourer. He lived for much of his life in Gargrave, Yorkshire where he worked in a mill or iron foundry. He was employed in the New Brighton Saw Mills before moving to Accrington, Lancashire where he worked as a moulder at Newbank Works. At the 1911 Census that family lived at 10 C...