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BRITISH SHIPS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
17 October 1914
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Captain (Retired Pay) Arthur Magor. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Edinburghâ€™s (Wiltshire Regiment). Death: 17 October 1914 Western Front
Died 17 October 1914
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Captain Miles Bertie Cunninghame Carbery MID. Unit: C Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers. Death: 17 October 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 17 October 1914
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Captain Norman Jerome Beauchamp Leslie. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 17 October 1914 near Armentieres
Died 17 October 1914
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Lieutenant Hubert Kirkby Peace. Unit: 3rd Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 17 October 1914 Western Front
Died 17 October 1914
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Lieutenant John Eden. Unit: 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers. Death: 17 October 1914 Western Front.
Died 17 October 1914
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Lieutenant Philip John Egerton. Unit: 1st Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 17 October 1914 Western Front. Son of Hubert and Annie Egerton, of St. Michael's Lodge, Chislehurst. Served in the South African War.
Died 17 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Francis Lester (Leslie?) Hastings-Medhurst. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 17 October 1914, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 17 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Leonard Wyndham Rendell MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 17 October 1914 Western Front
Died 17 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Richard John Lumley. Unit: 11th (Prince Alberts Own) Hussars. Death: 17 October 1914 Killed in action near Ploegsteert
Died 17 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Sydney Howard Hodges. Unit: Reserve of Officers, attached to the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Death: 17 October 1914, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 17 October 1914
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THE GERMAN INVASION OF BELGIUM AND FRANCE, AUGUST-NOVEMBER, 1914
17 October 1914
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Lieutenant Cecil William Charles Shelley. Unit: 2nd Life Guards, attached to 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 17 October 1915 Killed in action in France near Hohenzollern Redoubt Western Front
Died 17 October 1915
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Lieutenant Dennis Joseph St. Claire Mullaly MC MID. Unit: 1st Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 17 October 1915 Western Front
Died 17 October 1915
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THE GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN, APRIL 1915-JANUARY 1916
17 October 1915
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
17 October 1916
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Captain Oliver John Sykes. Unit: 23rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 17 October 1916 Killed in action Western Front
Died 17 October 1916
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Lieutenant Philip Challinor Ellis. Unit: Highland Light Infantry, attached to No. 1 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps (Observer). Death: 17 October 1916.
Died 17 October 1916
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Private Richard Ralph Parrack 5698. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Death: 17 October 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 17 October 1916
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Second Lieutenant C K Roberts. Unit: 11th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 17 October 1916 posted missing Western Front
Died 17 October 1916
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Second Lieutenant Ernest Airlie Holden. Unit: 20th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, attached to the "C" Company, 8th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Death: 17 October 1916, died of wounds, Somme, Western Front.
Died 17 October 1916
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THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, JULY-NOVEMBER 1916
17 October 1916
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THE FRENCH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
17 October 1916
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THE FRENCH NAVY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1914-1918
17 October 1916
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
17 October 1917
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Captain Frederick Charles Davies. Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to 9th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 17 October 1917 Killed in action Western Front
Died 17 October 1917
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IWM to Hall, Lance Corporal
17 October 1917
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IWM to Pearce, E., Miss.
17 October 1917
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Private John Richard Gibbons 300705. Unit: 5th Battalion, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade). Death: 17 October 1917, Kingston Hospital, Britain.
Died 17 October 1917
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Second Lieutenant H C Wookey. Unit: Gloucestershire Regiment, attached to Royal Flying Corps. Death: 17 October 1917 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 17 October 1917
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Sergeant John William Briggs DCM MM 13244. Unit: 8th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment. Death: 17 October 1917 France Western Front
Died 17 October 1917
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Stoker Petty Officer Harold Jordan 309611. Unit: Royal Navy, HMS Strongbow. Death: 17 October 1917. He was aboard HMS Strongbow when it was sunk during an attack on Merchant ship convoy on 17 October 1917.
Died 17 October 1917
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THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1917-1918
17 October 1917
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THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT 1914 - 1918
17 October 1917
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THE BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE, JULY-NOVEMBER 1917
17 October 1917
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THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
17 October 1917
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THE ENTERTAINMENT IN THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
17 October 1917
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THE GERMAN NAVY IN THE BALTIC, 1914-1918
17 October 1917
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THE GERMAN-TURKISH COOPERATION DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
17 October 1917
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Bourlon Wood, October 17 1918
17 October 1918
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Browne, Sidney to IWM
17 October 1918
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CAMOUFLAGE DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
17 October 1918
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Captain Charles Geoffrey Barton MC. Unit: 6th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Death: 17 October 1918.
Died 17 October 1918
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