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BRITAIN BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR
4 October 1911
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Captain Henry Buckle. Unit: Royal Field Artillery. Death: 04 October 1914 From wounds received 26 August Cambrai Western Front buried in Cologne, Germany as POW. Son of Henry Buckle.
Died 4 October 1914
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Lance Corporal Harold Charles Boyle 5051. Unit: 6th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1914 Passchendaele Western Front. Son of John and Elizabeth Boyle, of "Verdantvale," North Boort, Victoria.
Died 4 October 1914
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Lieutenant James Francis Roy Gebbie. Unit: 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. Death: 4 October 1914, Western Front.
Died 4 October 1914
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Early Morning, Sleeping in Section 'C', 1915
4 October 1915
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Alice Maud Russell, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Died of illness contracted on duty in Malta 04 October 1916.
Died 4 October 1916
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Lance Corporal Augustus Moolenaar 22219. Unit: 8 Platoon, B Company, 32nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 04 October 1916 Missing Somme Western Front
Died 4 October 1916
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Lieutenant E S Langdale. Unit: Royal Engineers, 23rd Field Company. Death: 04 October 1916 Western Front
Died 4 October 1916
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Private Herbert C. Ainsworth B/19444. Unit: 26th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 4 October 1916 He was killed during the Battle of the Somme on 4 October 1916. He is buried at the Australian Imperial Force Burial Ground, Flers.
Died 4 October 1916
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A Little Bit of Fluff
4 October 1917
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BATTLE OF PASCHENDAELE, JULY-NOVEMBER 1917
4 October 1917
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Corporal Ernest George Henry Bott MM 4979. Unit: 21st Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917
Died 4 October 1917
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Corporal Ernest Russell McLure 2760. Unit: A Company, 21st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Corporal Norman Rae S/43133. Unit: B Company, 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. Death: 04 October 1917 Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Gunner Guy Walter Ralston 23270. Unit: 113th Howitzer Battery, Australian Field Artillery, 13th Brigade, 5th Division, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Ypres died of wounds Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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IWM to Farish, S. T., Mrs.
4 October 1917
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IWM to Young, J. A., Mr.
4 October 1917
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Lance Corporal Harry Brown 26186. Unit: C Company, 10th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Death: 04 October 1917 Western Front. Son of Harry and Ann Elizabeth Brown, of 53, Abbeydale Rd., Sheffield.
Died 4 October 1917
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Lance Corporal Prosper Reginald Le Roux 5856. Unit: B Company, 24th Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917
Died 4 October 1917
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Lance Corporal Stanley Reginald Heyluer 27788. Unit: 13th Platoon, "D" Company, 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Death: 4 October 1917, missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Died 4 October 1917
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Lance Corporal William Horace Davis. Service number: 93. Unit: A Company, 39th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Killed in action at Poelcapelle Western Front.
Died 4 October 1917
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Lance Corporal William John Cumming 5990. Unit: 6th Battalion, attached to 38th Battalion, 19th Reinforcements, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Killed in action Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Lieutenant Arthur Wilcock. Unit: 24th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Lieutenant George Heaton. Unit: 7th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 4 October 1917, killed in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 4 October 1917
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Lieutenant Herbert Cecil Ainger. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Royal Scots, attached to 19th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 04 October 1917 Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Lieutenant Hugh Edmond Lyddon. Unit: 1st Field Company, Australian Engineers, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Lieutenant Lawrence G. Gjers. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. Death: 4 October 1917, Western Front.
Died 4 October 1917
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Lieutenant Roy Grote Cordiner MC. Unit: 8th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 04 October 1917 Killed in action Western Front. Son of the late Rev. R. C. Cordiner and of Josephine Grote Burt (formerly Cordiner).
Died 4 October 1917
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Lieutenant Thomas Hewett Boyd MC. Unit: 6th Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Broodseinde Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Margaret Roscoe, Munitions work. Died of TNT poisoning 04 October 1917.
Died 4 October 1917
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Pioneer Frederick Dunn 1268. Unit: B Company, 1st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Killed in action at Passchendael Western Front. Son of Charlotte Dunn, of 140, Beaver's Rd., Northcote, Victoria, Australia.
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Albert E. Howden 2631. Unit: "C" Company, 6th Battalion, 2nd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 4 October 1917, missing in action at Passchendaele Ridge, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Arthur Foster Pittman 3207. Unit: 58th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Private C V Thomas 5145. Unit: DCompany, 23rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Clifford Stone 291875. Unit: B Company, 7th Platoon, 8th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. Death: 04 October 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Private David Dunlop McKerchar 27238. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Kingâ€™s Own Scottish Borderers. Death: 04 October 1917 Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Ernest Gilmour Reeves 4301. Unit: Machine Gun Section, C Company, 6th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Private George Halliday 26258. Unit: 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. Death: 4 October 1917, missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Joe Clegg Slater 43020. Unit: 9th Battalion, Kingâ€™s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Death: 04 October 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Private John Donald Sutherland 558. Unit: D Company, 10th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Private John Eden 47813. Unit: 6th Platoon, Q Company, 11th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Death: 04 October 1917 Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Joseph Dimmock 30392. Unit: 11th Platoon, D Company, 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. Death: 04 October 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Leonard Gordon Wright 1543. Unit: B Company, 26th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Norman Ivor Heard 7015. Unit: "A" Company, 6th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 4 October 1917, Western Front.
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Percy Thomas Nodes TF/293298. Unit: B Company, 3rd/10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 04 October 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Robert J. Gamble 26641. Unit: 4th Company, 8th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. Death: 4 October 1917, Western Front. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Sidney Oscar Larson 6789. Unit: 22nd Reinforcement, 8th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Thomas Arthur Kelly 5041. Unit: 22nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Broodseinde Ridge, Western Front.
Died 4 October 1917
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Private William Healer 52815. Unit: 21st Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Death: 4 October 1917, missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Died 4 October 1917
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Private William Inglis 2515/12617. Unit: Royal Highlanders (Black Watch), attached to 6th Platoon, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 04 October 1917 Western Front.
Died 4 October 1917
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Rifleman George Gomm S/25754. Unit: 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 4 October 1917, Deulemont Farm, Western Front. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Died 4 October 1917
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Second Lieutenant (previously Sergeant) Harold Ross MM. Unit: 8th Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 4 October 1917, Ypres, Western Front.
Died 4 October 1917
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Second Lieutenant Duncan McKenzie MacRae. Unit: 3rd battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. Death: 04 October 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
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Second Lieutenant Edward Neale Chadwick. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. Death: 04 October 1917 Killed in action
Died 4 October 1917
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Second Lieutenant Harold William Harper. Unit: 21st Battalion, 6th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 4 October 1917, killed in action at Broodseinde, Western Front.
Died 4 October 1917
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THE BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE, JULY-NOVEMBER 1917
4 October 1917
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The Reverend Wilks was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry during the First World War. He was killed by a shell, aged 35, near Boesinghe in the Ypres Salient on 4 October 1917. The Reverend Wilks is buried at Bard Cottage Cemetery.
Died 4 October 1917
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
4 October 1918
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Australian Light Horse at Damascus
4 October 1918
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Lieutenant Colonel William Algernon Ireland Kay CMG DSO. Unit: 2nd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps; attached to General Staff, 1st Echelon for cipher work. Death: 04 October 1918 Western Front.
Died 4 October 1918
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Lieutenant George William Sparrow Sparrow. Unit: 4th Battalion, Kingâ€™s Shropshire Light Infantry. Death: 04 October 1918 Killed by a sniper Western Front
Died 4 October 1918
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