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Serjeant Charles Stevens 31073, Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 23 January 1959
Lives of the First World War

1st Engineer John Edgar Gilbertson , Dementian
Died 25 January 1959
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Surgeon Probationer Douglas George Patrick Bell , RNVR - HMS SPITFIRE
Died 30 January 1959
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Lieutenant Colonel Clifford Coffin VC , Royal Engineers
Died 4 February 1959
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Guardsman Edward Searle Smith 2609000, Grenadier Guards
Died 7 February 1959
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Gunner Thomas Leonard Rymer 286250, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 7 February 1959
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Private Frank Wootton 5663769, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 23 February 1959
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Private Eric John Evans 230429, King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Died 2 March 1959
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Private Stephen Bertrand Penfold 241746, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 March 1959
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Lieutenant John Harold Easter Avery , Royal Welsh Fusiliers 3rd Graduate Battalion
Died 8 March 1959
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Private Thomas Tweedle 8064, South Wales Borderers
Died 8 March 1959
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Cadet Raymond Thornton Chandler 2025721, Royal Air Force
Died 26 March 1959
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Brigadier Charles Edward Hudson VC ,
Died 4 April 1959
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Private Percy Humphreys F/828, Middlesex Regiment
Died 13 April 1959
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Founder Edith Helen Vane-Tempest-Stewart nee Chaplin DBE , Women's Legion
Died 23 April 1959
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Private Christopher Augustus Cox VC 13908, 7th Bedfordshire Regiment
Died 28 April 1959
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Odo John Bevington 6189,
Died 2 May 1959
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Sergeant Edwin Archer Boffey 24598, North Midland Field Ambulance Territorial Force
Died 3 May 1959
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Lieutenant Colonel Samuel John Gurney Hoare ,
Died 7 May 1959
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Lieutenant Commander Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard , Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve
Died 18 May 1959
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Brigadier General Cecil Faber Aspinall , Chief General Staff Officer, Gallipoli
Died 23 May 1959
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Corporal Alfred E Knill 329117, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 27 May 1959
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Major Burford Sampson V84339,
Died 5 June 1959
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Private Thomas Herbert Wilde 9170, Irish Guards
Died 12 June 1959
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Corporal William Angus VC 7709, 8th Highland Light Infantry attached to 1/8th Royal Scots
Died 14 June 1959
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Captain, Acting Major Arthur Potter Evershed, M.C. , D/110th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, 25th Division
Died 18 June 1959
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Private Ernest Victor Stables 54530, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 23 June 1959
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Chaplain The Reverend Francis A Gleeson , Royal Army Chaplains Department
Died 26 June 1959
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Major Peter Randall Johnson , Devonshire Regiment
Died 1 July 1959
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Private John William Alexander Jackson VC 588,
Died 5 July 1959
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Sergeant Richard Pettitt 14418, Suffolk Regiment
Died 11 July 1959
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Matron Alice Gray Hogarth , Canadian Army Medical Corps
Died 15 July 1959
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Corporal Sidney James Day VC 15092, 9th Suffolk Regiment
Died 17 July 1959
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War Artist Alfred James Munnings , Canadian Cavalry Brigade
Died 17 July 1959
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Private Thomas Birchall Barkas 48311, Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards)
Died 23 July 1959
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Seargent Daniel Poole 1422,
Died 28 July 1959
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Acting Colour Serjeant William Henry Grimbaldeston VC 13531, 7th King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 13 August 1959
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Major Jacob Epstein , Royal Fusiliers
Died 19 August 1959
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Lieutenant Colonel William Stewart Traill, DSO , Royal Engineers
Died 20 August 1959
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Captain Howell Wood Barnes , Royal Army Medical Corps
Died 31 August 1959
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Private Fakalagakai 16/1041, Rarotongans, Attached B Company
Died 17 September 1959
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Brevet Lieutenant Colonel William Edmund Ironside , Royal Field Artillery
Died 22 September 1959
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Director Elvira Sibyl Laughton , Women's Royal Naval Service
Died 25 September 1959
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Captain Charles Bruce Bairnsfather , Vth, 34th Division
Died 29 September 1959
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Lieutenant William James Carr , Royal Naval Reserve
Died 2 October 1959
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John Philip Wilson ,
Died 3 October 1959
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Private Jackson Clarke 7007299, Royal Irish Rifles
Died 7 October 1959
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Captain Arthur Ferdinand Bosworth , Intelligence Corps
Died 9 October 1959
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John Thomas Arnold , 1st-6th North Staffordshire Regiment
Died 23 October 1959
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Abraham Waddington 61012, Royal Flying Corps
Died 28 October 1959
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Corporal Mechanic Walter Frank Anstey 49194, Royal Air Force
Died 15 November 1959
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Second Lieutenant John Alexander Dickie , Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Died 17 November 1959
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Second Lieutenant William McNair Snadden , Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died 23 November 1959
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Second Lieutenant James McBey , Army Printing and Stationery Service
Died 1 December 1959
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Civil Surgeon Dorothea Clara Nasmyth (nee Maude) , British Field Hospital for Belgium French Red Cross
Died 12 December 1959
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Private Stanley Spencer 41812, Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 14 December 1959
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Brigadier General Geoffrey Herbert Anthony White , Royal Horse Artillery
Died 15 December 1959
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Nursing Sister Roberta Catherine MacAdams , Ontario Military Hospital ( Orpington ).
Died 16 December 1959
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Sergeant Lloyd Byer 931015, No.2 Construction Battalion
Died 17 December 1959
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