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Allan Forsyth Crosthwaite ,
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

Arthur Duncombe King 1519,
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

Arthur Rowland Hall 3626, Warwickshire Yeomanry
Died 4 October 1917
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Arthur Sydney Blake 10/1746, Wellington Infantry Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Frederick Evers-Swindell 10/2597, Wellington Infantry Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Guy Spencer Bryan-Brown 41286, New Zealand Chaplains Department
Died 4 October 1917
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Harry Oswald Furlong Marsden 24387, Wellington Infantry Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

A Little Bit of Fluff
4 October 1917
Imperial War Museum

BATTLE OF PASCHENDAELE, JULY-NOVEMBER 1917
4 October 1917
Imperial War Museum

Bombardier Alfred Mayes 50312, 112th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

Bombardier Hugh William Rainbow, M.M. 614181, Royal Horse Artillery
Died 4 October 1917
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Captain Arthur Charles Hubbard 14347, Auckland Infantry Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Captain Brian Wiseman Conway , Manchester Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Captain Clement Robertson VC , The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) attached Tank Corps
Died 4 October 1917
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Captain Neville Henry Arden 23/1288, Otago Infantry Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Captain Russell Sandon Turner , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Chaplain (3rd Class) The Reverend Walter Charles Wilks , Army Chaplain's Department
Died 4 October 1917
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Company Sergeant-Major David Gallaher 32513, 10th New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 2nd Regiment, Auckland Infantry Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Corporal Alexander Tod 265788, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Corporal Alfred Wright 32582, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Corporal Edgar Sutcliffe 19061, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 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
Imperial War Museum

Corporal Ernest Russell McLure 2760. Unit: A Company, 21st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
Imperial War Museum

Corporal Harry Rymer 32684, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Corporal John Tatler 19816, Manchester Regiment
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
Imperial War Museum

Corporal Samuel Walter Cornall 20282, Manchester Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Corporal Walter Johnson 21175, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 4 October 1917
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Corporal Walter Whiston Bullock 10/2876, Wellington Regiment New Zealand Forces
Died 4 October 1917
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Corporal William George Allington 10288, Wellington Infantry Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Gunner George Croft 104915, Royal Field Artillery
Died 4 October 1917
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Gunner Guy Walter Ralston 23270, Australian Field Artillery, 13th Brigade
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
Imperial War Museum

Gunner Walter James Cann 101974, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

IWM to Farish, S. T., Mrs.
4 October 1917
Imperial War Museum

IWM to Young, J. A., Mr.
4 October 1917
Imperial War Museum

Lance Corporal Claudian Alfred Bewshea G/10069, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Died 4 October 1917
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Lance Corporal David William Catchpole T-201709, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Died 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
Imperial War Museum

Lance Corporal John Daly 22327, Durham Light Infantry
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

Lance Corporal Prosper Reginald Le Roux 5856. Unit: B Company, 24th Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917
Died 4 October 1917
Imperial War Museum

Lance Corporal Reginald Willie Cleal 27631, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

Lance Corporal Seth Lord 16565, New Zealand Machine Gun Corps
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

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
Imperial War Museum

Lance Corporal Walter Baker 558, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

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
Imperial War Museum

Lance Corporal William Ilsley 25733, Devonshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

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
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Arthur Wilcock. Unit: 24th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Hamilton Dix , Leinster Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

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
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Harold Rowland Hill , Infantry
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

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
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Hugh Edmond Lyddon. Unit: 1st Field Company, Australian Engineers, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Lawrence G. Gjers. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. Death: 4 October 1917, Western Front.
Died 4 October 1917
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Oliver Saint Michael Jones , Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

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
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Samuel Whitfield McClay , Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

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
Imperial War Museum

Major Albert Lewis Stewart, D.S.O. , Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

Margaret Roscoe, Munitions work. Died of TNT poisoning 04 October 1917.
Died 4 October 1917
Imperial War Museum

Munitions Worker Margaret Roscoe , Ministry of Munitions - White Lund
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

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
Imperial War Museum

Private Albert Clabrough 38409, Manchester Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

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
Imperial War Museum

Private Albert Edward Doyle GS/7633, Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Albert Stokes 14471, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Albert Victor Gurr 3547, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Albert W. Harrison 49364, Cheshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Alfred Aldersley 204613, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Alfred Bird 19091, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Alfred Burke Madden 203048, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Alfred Taylor 25048, East Yorkshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Archibald Thomas Cook 235188, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Arthur Ferneyhough 40636, Manchester Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Arthur Foster Pittman 3207. Unit: 58th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
Imperial War Museum

Private Arthur Johnson 203036, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Ben Howard Kirkham 243183, Cheshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private C V Thomas 5145. Unit: DCompany, 23rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 04 October 1917 Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
Imperial War Museum

Private Charles E. Cale 18642, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Charles Frederick Maycock 26178, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Charles William Harwood 290647, Devonshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Clifford Stone 291875, Devonshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

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
Imperial War Museum

Private David Dunlop McKerchar 27238, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private David Dunlop McKerchar 27238. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Kingâ€™s Own Scottish Borderers. Death: 04 October 1917 Western Front
Died 4 October 1917
Imperial War Museum

Private Douglas Patrick Gordon Cole-Baker 25197, Auckland Infantry Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Dudley Henry Allan Dyer 260309, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Edward Kenneth Leslie Cross 23128, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Edward Martin Clarke 30798, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Edward Tyler 41993, Middlesex Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

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
Imperial War Museum

Private Ernest Henry Lake 33167, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Frank Thomas Izard 925 , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Fred Lord 27204, Border Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Fred Wilkinson 32717, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Frederick John Callaway 203369, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 4 October 1917
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Private Frederick John Patten 355937, Hampshire Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
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Private FREDERICK PARROTT TF/240435, Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 4 October 1917
Lives of the First World War

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