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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
2 July 1915
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Jolly Cold Day
2 July 1915
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Letter from Lloyd George to Lord Kitchener, July 1915
2 July 1915
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
2 July 1916
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Company Sergeant Major Arthur Hall 12283. Unit: "B" Company, 8th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 1 July to 2 July 1916, wounded and missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 2 July 1916
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Lieutenant Harold Leigh Wallis. Unit: Royal Field Artillery, attached to Royal Flying Corps. Death: 02 July 1916 Killed in an accident at Turnhouse Home Front
Died 2 July 1916
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Lieutenant Henry Whitaker Coombs. Unit: 18th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 2 July 1916, died of wounds, Somme, Western Front.
Died 2 July 1916
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Lieutenant Lyons George Edmund Walcott. Unit: 5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 02 July 1916 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 2 July 1916
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Lieutenant Ronald Duncan Wheatcroft. Unit: 6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbyshire Regiment). Death: 02 July 1916 Killed in Action at Gommecourt Western Front
Died 2 July 1916
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Lieutenant Valentine Ashworth Braithwaite MC. Unit: 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. Death: 2 July 1916, Beaumont Hamel, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 2 July 1916
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Major Thompson was reported missing, aged 42, on 2 July 1916 at the start of the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 2 July 1916
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Private Creighton Elliott 502. Unit: B Company, 22nd Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 July 1916 Western Front.
Died 2 July 1916
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Private Harry Frankish 4483. Unit: 1st/4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 2 July 1916, died of wounds, Western Front.
Died 2 July 1916
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Private Robert Clarke 12669. Unit: 8th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 2 July 1916, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 2 July 1916
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Private William Herbert Waite 3/11506. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding Regiment). Death: 02 July 1916 Killed in Action near Beaumont Hamel Western Front
Died 2 July 1916
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Rifleman John Ritchie 13443. Unit: 8th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 02 July 1916 Western Front
Died 2 July 1916
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Rifleman Robert Brown 1313. Unit: D Company, 8th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 2 July 1916.
Died 2 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant Henry Christopher Davis. Unit: D Company, 16th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 02 July 1916 Wounded and Missing in action near Quinchy believed to be a prisoner Western Front
Died 2 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant John Alexander Hellard. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to the 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. Death: 2 July 1916, missing in action, Gommecourt, Somme, Western Front.
Died 2 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant Leonard William Henry Lamaison. Unit: 5th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 2 July 1916, Western Front.
Died 2 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant Ralph Ellis Dunn. Unit: 13th Platoon, "H" Company, 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. Death: 2 July 1916, missing in action near Fricourt, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 2 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant Sydney Joseph Winkley. Unit: 1st/6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 02 July 1916 Wounded and Missing in Action at Gommecourt Western Front
Died 2 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant Thomas Marriott Dodington. Unit: 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. Death: 2 July 1916, missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 2 July 1916
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