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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Captain Archibald James Sanderson. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Kingâ€™s Own Scottish Borderers. Death: 02 May 1915 Wounded while leading charge to retake some trenches on 26 April 1915. Died on Hospital Ship Sicilia on buried at sea. Gallipoli/Dardanelles
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Corporal Selwyn Lord Curlewis. Service number: 6. Unit: 16th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 May 1915 Killed in action Gallipoli
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Alexis Hannum Helmer. Unit: 2nd Battery, 1st Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery. Death: 2 May 1915, killed in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Arthur Edward Carse MID. Unit: 16th Battalion (South Australia, West Australia), Australian Infantry. Death: 02 May 1915, WIA on 27 April 1915 Died of wounds in hospital in Alexandra Gallipoli Dardanelles
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Bernard Henry Herford. Unit: Royal Marines, Chatham Battalion, Royal Naval Division. Death: 2 May 1915, Gallipoli, Dardanelles. Commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Charles Herbert George Martin. Unit: 1st/3rd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment (Territorial Force). Death: 02 May 1915 Western Front
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Charles Stirling Walter Greenland. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 2 May 1915, Ypres, Western Front.
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Colonel Owen Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett DSO. Unit: Commanding 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment. Death: 2 May 1915.
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Ernest Otto Alfred Bruns. Unit: 16th Battalion (South Australia), Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 May 1915 Killed in action Gallipoli Peninsula
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant James Montague Smith. Unit: 1st/5th Battalion (Queenâ€™s Edinburgh Rifles) Territorials, The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment). Death: 02 May 1915 Killed in action at Gallipoli Gallipoli/Dardanelles
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant John Francis Bernal Greenwood. Unit: 1st Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Death: 2 May 1915, Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Kieran Leopold Anderson. Unit: 16th Battalion (South Australia, West Australia) Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 May 1915 Gallipoli Dardanelles
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Percy Mytton. Unit: 8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 02 May 1915 Missing Hill 60 Ypres Western Front
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Robert Arthur Douglas McCulloch. Unit: 1st Battalion, Kings Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Death: 02 May 1915 Ypres Western Front
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Major Herbert Joseph Sammut. Unit: 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment. Death: 02 May 1915 Killed in action near Krithia. Gallipoli/Dardanelles
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Private Brunel John Nash 702. Unit: 10th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 2 May 1915 Gallipoli Dardanelles.
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Private Frank Norman Fisher 436. Unit: "A" Company, 10 Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st South Australian Expeditionary Force, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 2 May 1915, Gallipoli, Dardanelles.
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Private James Miller Ivison 710. Unit: 16th Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 May 1915 Missing in action Gallipoli Front.
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Private Leslie Bucher 287. Unit: C Company, 6th Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 May 1915 Gaba Tepe Dardanelles. Son of Albert and Mary Ann Bucher, of 57, Fraser St., Richmond Victoria, Australia.
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Private Vernon Coldham-Fussell 1333. Unit: 2nd Reinforcements, 2nd Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 2 May 1915, Gallipoli, Dardanelles. Commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial.
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Private William Joseph Keenan 847. Unit: 1st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 May 1915 Gallipoli, Dardanelles.
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Second Lieutenant Timothy Sullivan. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 02 May 1915 Died of wounds Gallipoli
Died 2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1915
2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

THE GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN, APRIL 1915-JANUARY 1916
2 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
2 May 1916
Imperial War Museum

BRITISH OFFICIAL PANORAMAS OF THE WESTERN FRONT 1914 - 1918
2 May 1916
Imperial War Museum

THE FRENCH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
2 May 1916
Imperial War Museum

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
2 May 1917
Imperial War Museum

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
2 May 1917
Imperial War Museum

Annie Bell, Munitions work. Died of TNT poisoning 02 May 1917.
Died 2 May 1917
Imperial War Museum

Dug Outs in Attilly (near Holnon), 2 May 1917
2 May 1917
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Lancelot Charles Wise. Unit: North Irish Horse, attached to 3rd Lancers (Skinners Horse). Death: 02 May 1917 Killed in Action Indian Front, North West Frontier
Died 2 May 1917
Imperial War Museum

Miss Elspeth Earle, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of pneumonia contracted on duty 02 May 1917.
Died 2 May 1917
Imperial War Museum

Mrs Isabella Paget, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of pneumonia 02 May 1917.
Died 2 May 1917
Imperial War Museum

Private Arthur Henry Flett 2655. Unit: 21st Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 2 May 1917, Bullecourt, Western Front.
Died 2 May 1917
Imperial War Museum

Private Douglas Walter Quaife 50292. Unit: Z Company, 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 02 May 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 2 May 1917
Imperial War Museum

Second Lieutenant Edward Charles Ready. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Death: 02 May 1917 Western Front
Died 2 May 1917
Imperial War Museum

Sgt Needell enlisted in April 1909. He was killed in action, aged 28, at Wancourt on 2 May 1917. Sgt Needell is buried at Hibers Trench Cemetery.
Died 2 May 1917
Imperial War Museum

THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
2 May 1917
Imperial War Museum

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