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THE SECOND OPIUM WAR 1856-1860
21 August 1860
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THE SECOND OPIUM WAR, 1856-1860
21 August 1860
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Little is known about Lt Sharp who is believed to have survived the War. 10 Battalion was also known as the Stockbrokers Battalion, a reference to its origins as a Battalion raised by the Lord Mayor and City of London on 21 August 1914. The Battalion se
Died 21 August 1914
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Major Charles George Pack-Beresford MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Queenâ€™s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 21 August 1914 Western Front
Died 21 August 1914
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THE BATTLE AND RETREAT FROM MONS AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1914
21 August 1914
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Captain George Gardner. Unit: 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers, attached as Adjutant to the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars. Death: 21 August 1915, missing in action, Gallipoli, Dardanelles.
Died 21 August 1915
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Captain William George Massy Eagar. Unit: 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 21 August 1915 from wounds Sulva Bay Gallipoli Dardanelles
Died 21 August 1915
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Captain William Pike DSO. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Death: 21 August 1915 Gallipoli
Died 21 August 1915
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GENERAL SCENES DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR: GALLIPOLI, 1915
21 August 1915
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Lieutenant Thomas Edward Ainger. Unit: Berkshire Yeomanry. Death: 21 August 1915 Gallipoli Dardanelles
Died 21 August 1915
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Private (Trooper) Stanley Stevens Thurlow 159. Unit: ASquadron, 1st Light Horse Regiment, 1st Australian Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 21 August 1915 Malta
Died 21 August 1915
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Private Richard Moore 4553. Unit: 2nd Company, 9th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, 34th Brigade, 11th Division. Death: 21 August 1915 Missing Dardanelles Gallipoli
Died 21 August 1915
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Private William George Marshall 1789. Unit: A Company, 4th Reinforcements,14th Battalion, 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 21 August 1915 Gallipoli
Died 21 August 1915
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Sergeant Edwin Thomas Pavey 10140. Unit: 10th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Death: 21 August 1915 Dardenelles
Died 21 August 1915
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THE DARDANELLES CAMPAIGN, 1915 - 1916
21 August 1915
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THE FRENCH AIR FORCE ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
21 August 1915
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THE FRENCH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
21 August 1915
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The Salt Lake, Suvla Bay: the advance of 21st August 1915
21 August 1915
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DESTRUCTION ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
21 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Alfred Alcock. Unit: 8th Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 21 August 1916, High Wood, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 21 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Sydney Thomas Askham. Unit: 9th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Death: 21 August 1916, missing, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 21 August 1916
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
21 August 1917
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Air Mechanic Second Class Christopher Hallam 77450. Unit: Royal Marine Light Infantry, attached to No. 21 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 21 August 1917, missing in action (with Captain Smith MC, Flight Commander), Western Front. Commemorated on the
Died 21 August 1917
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21 August 1917
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Miss Gladys M Jones, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of malaria in Salonika 21 August 1917.
Died 21 August 1917
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MUNITIONS PRODUCTION ON THE HOME FRONT, 1914-1918
21 August 1917
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Private Alexander George Hall Parlby 895407. Unit: 50th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 21 August 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 21 August 1917
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Second Lieutenant Frederick Ewen Baldwin Falkiner MC. Unit: 17th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, attached to No. 57 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 21 August 1917, Western Front. Recipient of the Bronze Medal for Military Valour (Italy).
Died 21 August 1917
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Sister Etta Sparks, Canadian Army Medical Corps. Died of illness contracted on duty in Egypt 21 August 1917.
Died 21 August 1917
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Staff Nurse Nellie Spindler, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Killed when the Germans bombed a French hospital 21 August 1917.
Died 21 August 1917
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Staff Nurse Nellie Spindler, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. Killed when the Germans bombed a French hospital 21 August 1917.
Died 21 August 1917
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