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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

BRITISH OFFICIAL PANORAMAS OF THE WESTERN FRONT 1914 - 1918
8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Captain Carlton Collingwood , South Lancashire Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Corporal Benjamin Atkinson Kirkby 3582/201062. Unit: 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Death: 08 August 1916 wounded and missing, Western Front.
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Corporal Norman Hill 200640. Unit: 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Death: 8 August 1916, missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Corporal William James Clare 23748, Liverpool Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Gunner Bernard Westenborg 20282, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Lance Corporal Leo J Miles 35373. Unit: 1st Battalion, Kingâ€™s Liverpool Regiment. Death: 08 August 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Lance Corporal Ronald Armstrong Reid 4412. Unit: D Company, 15th Battalion, 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 August 1916 Wounded and Missing in action Western Front
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Bernard Gordon Anderson , Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Lieutenant Colonel John Plunkett Verney Hawksley DSO. Unit: 135th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, 4th Division, attached to the 110th Brigade, 32nd Division. Death: 8 August 1916, killed in action, Somme, Western Front.
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Lt Tisdall, a former Classics Scholar of Bedford and Peterhouse College, Cambridge, was commanding B Company when he was reported missing, aged 23, at Guillemont on 8 August 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Allen Foster F/297, Middlesex Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Arnold Locke Beattie 3778. Unit: 9th Reinforcements, 18th Battalion, attached to the 20th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 8 August 1916, Pozieres, Somme, Western Front.
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Arthur Perry 5399, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Charles Albert Holloway PW/259, Middlesex Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private David Beaver 2299, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private E Spiers 4314, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Eric Lang 5129. Unit: 48th Battalion, 12th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 August 1916 Western Front
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Ernest Clarke 33161, The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private F Doolan 11538, The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 8 August 1916
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Private George Baxendale 3914, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
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Private George Edward Turnbull 44486, Yorkshire Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
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Private George Pilling 6278, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
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Private Harry Brierley 3913, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Henry V Monger 9208, Hampshire Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private James Ashworth 200735, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private James Dove 15707, Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 8 August 1916
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Private James Ernest Beaney 15463, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private James Ernest Beaney. Unit: Army Cyclist Corps, attached to D Company, 6th Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 12th Division. Death: 08 August 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private John Charles Michael 1700. Unit: 24th Battalion, 6th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 August 1916 Western Front
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Lazarus Emmanuel Louis Francois 842, British West Indies Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Oscar Horace Stanley Linkson F/1723, Middlesex Regiment - Duke of Cambridge's Own
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Oscar Thomas Franklin G/12545, Middlesex Regiment - Duke of Cambridge's Own
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Owen McManus 5425. Unit: 45th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 08 August 1916 Western Front
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Percy Charles Vessey 10590, Hampshire Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Reginald George Roe 5588, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Samuel Oliver 3478. Unit: 8th Platoon, B Company, 1st/4th Kingâ€™s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Death: 08 August 1916 Western Front
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Sidney James Morris F/225, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Sydney Albert Fitts 24289, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Walter W Barnish 201471, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private William Cook Z225, Rifle Brigade
Died 8 August 1916
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Private William Edward Garland 11680, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
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Private William Webber Walter Gerrish 7/936, Middlesex Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Second Lieutenant Douglas Osmond Evans. Unit: 1st Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 08 August 1916 missing in action Somme.
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Second Lieutenant Ernest John Pusch , 4th Battalion, attached 11th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Second Lieutenant Gordon MacGregor Hughes , Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Second Lieutenant Gordon MacGregor Hughes. Unit: 9th Battalion, attached to the 5th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Death: 8 August 1916, wounded and missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Second Lieutenant John Theodore St Clair Tisdall , Liverpool Regiment
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Second Lieutenant William Edward Mills. Unit: 4th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. Death: 8 August 1916, Trones Wood, Western Front.
Died 8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Sergeant Lewis Norman Shepherd 5229, Australian Infantry
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Serjeant Harold Victor Hawker 8653, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 8 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, JULY-NOVEMBER 1916
8 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

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