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Captain George Norman Simms MVO. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Killed at Noyon Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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Lieutenant Alexander Patrick Francis Lyon. Unit: 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 27 August 1914 At Bertry Western front
Died 27 August 1914
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Lieutenant Challoner Francis Trevor Chute. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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Lieutenant Charles Frederick Phayre. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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Lieutenant Frederick Ernest Styles. Unit: 2nd Battalion (Special Reserve), Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Killed in action at Etreux Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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Lieutenant Robert Merlin Graham Aytoun MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Death: 27 August 1914
Died 27 August 1914
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Lieutenant Roger Owen Birkbeck Wakefield. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Wounded 26 August 1914 at Coudry, died at the temporary hospital there. Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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Lieutenant William Malcolm Chisholm. Unit: 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 27 August 1914 Died of wounds at Ligny Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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Major Paul Alfred Charrier. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Killed in action near Etreux Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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Major Stuart Hamilton Rickman MID twice. Unit: 2nd Battalion, attached to and commanding 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consorts Own). Death: 27 August 1914 died of wounds in Cambrai hospital Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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MAPS OF THE WESTERN FRONT
27 August 1914
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Second Lieutenant Carol Edward Vere Awdry. Unit: C Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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Second Lieutenant James Cyril Baptist Crozier. Unit: B Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Killed in action near Etreux Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 August 1915
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Major W. E. Hicks DSO MC 20069. Unit: 152nd Heavy Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: not known. Commissioned on 27 August 1915.
Died 27 August 1915
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Private Charles Wesley King 373. Unit: A Company, 17th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 August 1915 Gallipoli, Dardanelles.
Died 27 August 1915
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Private Joseph Kavanagh 249. Unit: A Company, 17th Battalion, 5th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 August 1915 at Hill 60 Western Front. Son of William and Margaret Kavanagh. Native of Melbourne.
Died 27 August 1915
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Private Morrice Chapman 1527. Unit: 1st Reinforcements for 17th Battalion, 5th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 August 1915 Killed in action Turkey, Hill 60
Died 27 August 1915
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Sergeant (Acting Company Sergeant Major) Harold Robert Lyne Colquhoun 275. Unit: 7th Platoon, B Company, 15th Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 August 1915 Killed in action at Hill 60 Gallipoli
Died 27 August 1915
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THE FRENCH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
27 August 1915
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A young man in uniform
27 August 1916
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Lance Corporal Joseph Mark Snow 3184/200896. Unit: 1st/4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Death: 27 August 1916 Missing
Died 27 August 1916
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Lance Corporal Robert Slessar 3821. Unit: 6th Field Company, Australian Engineers, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 August 1916 Killed in action at Pozieres Western Front
Died 27 August 1916
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Private Frederick Edward George Angell 5290/306854. Unit: 11 Platoon, "C" Company, 1st/8th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 27 August 1916, missing, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 27 August 1916
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Private Gavin Hamilton 3363. Unit: "C" Company, 14th Battalion, 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 August 1916, died of wounds, Somme, Western Front.
Died 27 August 1916
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Pte Mason was reported wounded and missing on 27 August 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 27 August 1916
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Still life - a boot on a newspaper
27 August 1916
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Captain Geoffrey Robert Wallace MC and Bar. Unit: 7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 27 August 1917 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 27 August 1917
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Lance Corporal Arthur Herbert Hillyer 56576. Unit: 15th Platoon, "D" Company, 16th Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Death: 27 August 1917, missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Died 27 August 1917
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postcard
27 August 1917
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Schwerdt, C. F. G. R., Mr. to IM
27 August 1917
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Second Lieutenant James Hope Byres. Unit: 13th Battalion, Royal Scots. Death: 27 August 1917.
Died 27 August 1917
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THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ARMY ON THE ITALIAN FRONT, 1915-1918
27 August 1917
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THE BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE, JULY-NOVEMBER 1917
27 August 1917
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THE BRITISH ARMY AT THE BATTLE OF YPRES, 27 AUGUST 1917
27 August 1917
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
27 August 1918
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FRANCE DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 August 1918
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IWM to Andrews, C. J., Mrs.
27 August 1918
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IWM to Cass, Mrs.
27 August 1918
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Second Lieutenant Gerard Charles Brassey. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 27 August 1918 Western Front
Died 27 August 1918
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