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Captain Alan Ralph Peel. Unit: South Wales Borderers, attached to 2nd Battalion, Nigeria Regiment, West African Frontier Force (CWGC lists 5th Battalion, Nigeria Regiment). Death: 17 November 1914 Cameroon & Togoland
Died 17 November 1914
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Captain Arthur Montague Twiss. Unit: 3rd Sappers and Miners, Royal Engineers. Death: 17 November 1914 Killed in action MesopotaMissing in action
Died 17 November 1914
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Captain Cholmeley Symes-Thompson. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 17 November 1914 Killed in action in the Battle of Ypres Western Front
Died 17 November 1914
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Captain Clement Henry Peto MID. Unit: 10th (Prince of Walesâ€™s Own Royal) Hussars. Death: 17 November 1914 Western Front
Died 17 November 1914
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Captain Frank Middleton. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment.. Death: 17 November 1914 Mesopotamia
Died 17 November 1914
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Captain Frederick Alexander Charles Liebert. Unit: North Somerset Yeomanry, formerly 3rd Dragoon Guards. Death: 17 November 1914
Died 17 November 1914
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Captain George Arthur Murray Docker. Unit: Royal Fusiliers, attached to 3rd Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Death: 17 November 1914 Killed in action at Le Touquet Western Front.
Died 17 November 1914
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Captain Richard Lockington Birdwood. Unit: Indian Political Department. Death: 17 November 1914 Basra Persian Gulf Mesopotamia. Son of the late H M. and Edith Birdwood.
Died 17 November 1914
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Captain Thomas Haworth Preston. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 17 November 1914 Western Front
Died 17 November 1914
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Lieutenant Bernard Vincent Fulcher MC. Unit: 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. Death: 17 November 1914, Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 17 November 1914
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Lieutenant Colonel Malcolm Charles Andrew Green. Unit: Commanding 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. Death: 17 November 1914, Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 17 November 1914
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Lieutenant Edward Wynne Chapman MID. Unit: 3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales' Own). Death: 17 November 1914 Killed in action near Ypres Western Front
Died 17 November 1914
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Lieutenant Jocelin Nigel Searancke Huntington. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 17 November 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 17 November 1914
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Lieutenant John Henry Gordon Lee Steere. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 17 November 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 17 November 1914
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Lieutenant Robert Horridge. Unit: 4th Battalion, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Death: 17 November 1914, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 17 November 1914
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Lieutenant William Marshall Burt-Marshall. Unit: A Company, 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Death: 17 November 1914 Died of wounds in a German Field Hospital after being twice wounded on the 9 November 1914 at Ploegsteert Wood Western Fr
Died 17 November 1914
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Major Archibald Ariel Mercer. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment. Death: 17 November 1914 Mesopotamia
Died 17 November 1914
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Major Aubrey Webster Buckingham. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st/5th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 17 November 1914 Ypres Western Front
Died 17 November 1914
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Major John Chrystie. Unit: 3rd Siege Battery, 1st Siege Brigade, 3rd Division, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 17 November 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 17 November 1914
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Major Thomas Roche. Unit: 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 17 November 1914 Western Front
Died 17 November 1914
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Second Lieutenant Basil Hamilton Woods. Unit: 1st and/or 2nd Field Companies, East Lancashire Division, Royal Engineers (Territorial Force). Death: 17 November 1914 Drowned in the Suez Canal together with six NCOs and men when their launch exploded while
Died 17 November 1914
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Second Lieutenant Clive Hereward Chandler. Unit: 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 17 November 1914 Killed in action, Western Front, Ypres
Died 17 November 1914
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Second Lieutenant Gervase Thorpe Spendlove. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The Prince of WalesVolunteers (South Lancashire Regiment). Death: 17 November 1914 Killed on by a shell exploding in his dug-out. Western Front
Died 17 November 1914
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THE BATTLE OF ÅÓDÅ¹, NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1914
17 November 1914
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THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1915
17 November 1914
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THE FIRST BATTLE OF YPRES, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1914
17 November 1914
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THE GERMAN INVASION OF BELGIUM AND FRANCE, AUGUST-NOVEMBER 1914
17 November 1914
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Pte Thornton was educated at Wellington School and Clare College, Cambridge in England. At the outbreak of War in 1914, he was working in Canada and enlisted there as a private in preference to training for a commission. Agood linguist, Pte Thornton ser
Died 17 November 1915
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Staff Nurse Mary Rodwell, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Drowned when the Hospital Ship Anglia was mined in the English Channel 17 November 1915.
Died 17 November 1915
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Vergesst nicht unsere Krieger in den Feldlazaretten [Don’t Forget our Fighting Men in the Field Hospitals]
17 November 1915
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
17 November 1916
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Grande Matinée
17 November 1916
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Sergeant Frederick Richard Sergeant 6511. Unit: 4th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 17 November 1916 Killed in action at Flers, France Western Front
Died 17 November 1916
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'Our Day' Celebration in India
17 November 1917
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
17 November 1917
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BRITISH SHIPS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
17 November 1917
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Fampoux Mill, November 17 1917
17 November 1917
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GREECE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
17 November 1917
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Lieutenant Bertie Constantine Ruffell Grimwood MC. Unit: Royal Artillery, transferred to No. 4 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 17 November 1917, Western Front. Commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial.
Died 17 November 1917
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Lieutenant Sidney Foster Jackson. Unit: 7th Battalion, West Yorkshier Regiment (Prince Wales's Own). Death: 17 November 1917 Western Front.
Died 17 November 1917
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Private William Matthewman 205286. Unit: 9th Platoon, C Company, 2nd/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellingtonâ€™s (West Riding Regiment). Death: 17 November 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 17 November 1917
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Street in Ruins, November 17 1917
17 November 1917
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THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE SINAI AND PALESTINE CAMPAIGN, 1915-1918
17 November 1917
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THE BRITISH HOME FRONT, 1914-1918
17 November 1917
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THE MEDICAL SERVICES ON THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN HOME FRONT, 1914-1918
17 November 1917
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THE SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN, 1914-1918
17 November 1917
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THE WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN, 1914-1918
17 November 1917
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THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
17 November 1918
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THE FRENCH AIR FORCE ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
17 November 1918
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motorcycle helmet, NSKK
17 November 1937
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BRITISH ARMED FORCES IN NORTHERN IRELAND, 1920 - 1980
17 November 1939
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THE BRITISH ARMED FORCES IN NORTHERN IRELAND, 1920 - 1980
17 November 1939
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UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES (USAAF) IN BRITAIN, 1942-1945
17 November 1940
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THE ALLIED OCCUPATION OF FRENCH NORTH AFRICA, 1942-1945
17 November 1942
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UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES (USAAF) IN BRITAIN, 1942-1945
17 November 1942
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UNITED STATES EIGHTH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1942-1945
17 November 1942
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UNITED STATES EIGHTH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1942-1945
17 November 1943
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THE SUEZ CRISIS (OPERATION MUSKETEER) 1956
17 November 1956
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