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Captain (Temp) Lionel George Oliver Townsend. Unit: 7th (Service) Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 09 August 1915 Killed in action near Suvla Bay Gallipoli
Died 9 August 1915
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Captain Archibald Waller Scot Skirving. Unit: 5th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers. Death: 09 August 1915 Gallipoli/Dardanelles
Died 9 August 1915
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Captain Basil John Leslie Clymping Constable. Unit: 1st/4th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Death: 09 August 1915 Killed in action Gallipoli
Died 9 August 1915
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Corporal John G Limerock 2155. Unit: B Company, 7th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 09 August 1915 Lone Pine Gallipoli
Died 9 August 1915
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Lance Corporal T A Slater 10680. Unit: B Company, 6th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 09 August 1915 Missing at the Dardanelles Gallipoli/Dardanelles
Died 9 August 1915
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Private Roy Austin Barclay 849. Unit: D Company, 7th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 09 August 1915 Lone Pine Dardanelles
Died 9 August 1915
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Second Lieutenant Henry Longbottom. Unit: 6th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. Death: 09 August 1915 At Gallipoli Gallipoli
Died 9 August 1915
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Second Lieutenant John Digby Cartwright. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Death: 09 August 1915 Killed in action at Hooge Flanders Western Front
Died 9 August 1915
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Signaller John William Best 2108. Unit: 6th Reinforcements, 1st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: Between 6th and 9th August 1915 Lone Pine Dardanelles
Died 9 August 1915
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Trooper Bertie Hill 247. Unit: "B" Troop, "B" Squadron, 8th Regiment, Australian Light Horse, 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 9 August 1915, killed in action at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Dardanelles. Commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial.
Died 9 August 1915
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
9 August 1916
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
9 August 1916
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Captain Clifford John Hart. Unit: Worcestershire Regiment, attached to No. 25 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 9 August 1916, killed in action over Thiepval (with Observer Lieutenant John Anderson Mann), Somme, Western Front.
Died 9 August 1916
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Captain E W Leggatt. Unit: Royal Flying Corps (2 Squadron) and Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 09 August 1916 At Bethune-la-basse Western Front
Died 9 August 1916
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Captain William Garfield Hartley. Unit: Officer Commanding "D" Company, 48th Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 9 August 1916, died of wounds at Pozieres, Somme, Western Front.
Died 9 August 1916
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Corporal Alfred Forrester 1494/265162. Unit: 1st/7th Battalion, the King's (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 9 August 1916, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 9 August 1916
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Lance Corporal John Abbott King 357176. Unit: X Company, 1st/10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 09 August 1916 at Guillemont, Western Front.
Died 9 August 1916
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Lieutenant Charles Edward Dunsdon. Unit: 4th Field Company, Australian Engineers. Death: 09 August 1916 Western Front
Died 9 August 1916
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Private Benjamin Stewart 2319. Unit: B Company, 22nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 09 August 1916 Killed in action at Pozieres Western Front
Died 9 August 1916
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Private Bertram George Dix 2913. Unit: 6th Reinforcements, 32nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 09 August 1916 Killed in action Western Front.
Died 9 August 1916
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Private Frederick Walter Gilbert 2386. Unit: 14th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 09 August 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 9 August 1916
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Private Joseph Middleditch 23778. Unit: 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Death: 09 August 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 9 August 1916
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Private Richard Rawlinson 26740. Unit: 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Death: 09 August 1916 Western Front
Died 9 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Archibald Charles Watson Buck. Unit: 10th Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 9 August 1916 He was reported wounded and missing opposite Guillemont at Arrow Head Copse on 9 August 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is
Died 9 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Richard Walker. Unit: 2nd/5th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, formerly of London Regiment (Artists Rifles). Death: 09 August 1916 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 9 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, JULY-NOVEMBER 1916
9 August 1916
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THE OFFICIAL VISITS TO THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
9 August 1916
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
9 August 1917
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
9 August 1917
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Atkinson, Loie C. de B., Mrs. to IWM
9 August 1917
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Captain Harvey Ranby. Unit: 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Death: 09 August 1917 Western Front
Died 9 August 1917
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DESTRUCTION ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
9 August 1917
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Dug-outs
9 August 1917
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Flight Sub Lieutenant Keith Ross-Munro. Unit: 8th (Naval) Squadron, Royal Naval Air Service, attached to Royal Flying Corps. Death: 09 August 1917 Over Polygone Woods Western Front
Died 9 August 1917
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Gladys Knights, Munitions work. Killed by an explosion at a chemical works 09 August 1917.
Died 9 August 1917
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Mrs E Smith, Munitions work. Burned to death on duty 09 August 1917.
Died 9 August 1917
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Mrs Rose Abbot, Munitions work. Killed on duty 09 August 1917.
Died 9 August 1917
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Sergeant Robert Sidney Major 14343. Unit: 9th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Death: 09 August 1917 Western Front
Died 9 August 1917
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THE BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE, JULY-NOVEMBER 1917
9 August 1917
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THE GERMAN ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
9 August 1917
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Tomes, W., Mr. to IWM
9 August 1917
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Wireless Operators : on duty in an observation post, hewn out of the sandstone
9 August 1917
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
9 August 1918
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Chittock, Mabel A to IWM
9 August 1918
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FIRST WORLD WAR CASUALTIES ON THE WESTERN FRONT
9 August 1918
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Flowerdew Lowson, J. G. to IWM
9 August 1918
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Gunner Hector Norman Roberts McQuinn 249. Unit: Machine Gun Company, 5th and 15th Battalions, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 09 August 1918 Western Front
Died 9 August 1918
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IWM to Chesey, Annie L.
9 August 1918
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IWM to Langdale, Mrs.
9 August 1918
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IWM to Lewes, Mrs.
9 August 1918
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Lieutenant Henry Edgar Jekill. Unit: 29th Battalion (British Columbia Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 09 August 1918 Western Front.
Died 9 August 1918
Imperial War Museum

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