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Captain Frederick Forster. Unit: 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 23 August 1914, Mons, Western Front.
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum

Captain Jonathan Edward Knowles. Unit: 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 23 August 1914 Western Front.
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum

Captain Kenneth James Roy MID. Unit: 4th Battalion, The Duke of Cambridgeâ€™s Own (Middlesex Regiment). Death: 23 August 1914 Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum

Captain Oswald Bethell Walker. Unit: 15th Battalion, (The Kings) Hussars. Death: 23 August 1914 Killed in Action during the retreat from Mons. Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum

Captain Walter Richard Augustus Aston Dawes. Unit: A Company, 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 23 August 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Captain Walton Mellor. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. Death: 23 August 1914 Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Corporal A Rogers L/7281. Unit: D Company, 1st Battalion, Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 23 August 1914 near Mons Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Lieutenant Everard Cecil Smith. Unit: 4th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Death: 23 August 1914 Killed at Nimy near Mons Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Lieutenant Harold Martin Soames. Unit: 20th Hussars. Death: 23 August 1914 Killed while on reconnaissance duty near Binche, in Belgium Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Lieutenant Jervis Moore Tylee. Unit: 15th Hussars. Death: 23 August 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Lieutenant John Rothes Marlow Wilkinson. Unit: 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 23 August 1914 Approximate date. Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Lieutenant Kenneth Parnell Henstock. Unit: 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 23 August 1914, killed in action at Mons, Western Front.
Died 23 August 1914
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Lieutenant Maurice James Dease VC. Unit: Machine Gun Officer, 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 23 August 1914 Died of wounds at Nimy near Mons Western Front.
Died 23 August 1914
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Major Charles Stewart Holland. Unit: 120th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 23 August 1914, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 23 August 1914
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Major John Southern Maidlow. Unit: Commanding 49th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 23 August 1914 Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum

Major William Henry Abell. Unit: 4th Battalion, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment). Death: 23 August 1914 Obourg Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum

MAPS OF THE WESTERN FRONT
23 August 1914
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Second Lieutenant John Pepys. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The Kingâ€™s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Death: 23 August 1914 Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Second Lieutenant Joseph Frederick Mead. Unit: 4th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Death: 23 August 1914 Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Second Lieutenant Neville Lascelles Ward. Unit: 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Death: 23 August 1914 Killed in Action leading a charge at Boussy near Mons Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
Imperial War Museum

Private Webb - Wisques
23 August 1915
Imperial War Museum

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
23 August 1916
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Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Joseph Alexander Ashford 19477. Unit: "A" Battery, 100th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 23 August 1916, Macedonia. Buried at the Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery.
Died 23 August 1916
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Gunner Walter Francis Butt 7841. Unit: 22nd Brigade, Australian Field Artillery, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1916, Western Front.
Died 23 August 1916
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Private Alfred Langridge 3346. Unit: 6th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1916 From gas poisoning Western Front
Died 23 August 1916
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Private Leslie Haliburton Fynmore 628. Unit: "C" Company, 21st Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1916, Mouquet Farm, Somme, Western Front.
Died 23 August 1916
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Private Woolf Fisher 4518/266755. Unit: 1st/1st Bucks Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. Death: 23 August 1916, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 23 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Edward Lionel Austin Butler. Unit: 12th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1916
Died 23 August 1916
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Sergeant Benjamin Alfred Jemesen 3115. Unit: 9th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1916 Western Front.
Died 23 August 1916
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THE FRENCH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
23 August 1916
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THE WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN, 1914-1918
23 August 1916
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THE WOMEN'S WORK IN THE WAR INDUSTRY, 1914-1918
23 August 1916
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THE WOMEN'S WORK IN THE WAR PRODUCTION, 1914-1918
23 August 1916
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
23 August 1917
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Campion, P., Mr. to IWM
23 August 1917
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Grant, Percy H., Mr. to IWM
23 August 1917
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Halford, E. H., Mrs. to IWM
23 August 1917
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Major J Naismith photographed leaving Buckingham Palace having received the Distinguished Service Order (DSO), 23 August 1917.
Died 23 August 1917
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Private Archibald Donald S/21165. Unit: 10th Platoon, C Company, 11th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Death: 23 August 1917 Missing in action Western Front.
Died 23 August 1917
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Private Frederick Miller 25996. Unit: 6th Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 23 August 1917 Western Front
Died 23 August 1917
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Private Joseph Daniel Creese 40490. Unit: 11th Battalion, South Wales Borderers. Death: 23 August 1917 Killed in action Western Front
Died 23 August 1917
Imperial War Museum

SCENES IN SALONIKA DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
23 August 1917
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SECOND LIEUTENANT THOMAS R. IBBETSON
23 August 1917
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Sergeant William Gill 234085. Unit: 44th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 23 August 1917, Western Front. Commemorated on the Vimy Memorial.
Died 23 August 1917
Imperial War Museum

THE BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE, JULY-NOVEMBER 1917
23 August 1917
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
23 August 1918
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Caate (?), A A (?) to IWM
23 August 1918
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IWM to Smith, S A.
23 August 1918
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Lieutenant Peter Clement Layard. Unit: 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Death: 23 August 1918, Gommecourt, Somme, Western Front.
Died 23 August 1918
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Lieutenant Thomas Brown MC 10951. Unit: 15th Battalion, 3rd New Zealand Rifle Brigade. Death: 23 August 1918 Western Front
Died 23 August 1918
Imperial War Museum

Private Albert H Roberts 1811. Unit: 6th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1918 Western Front
Died 23 August 1918
Imperial War Museum

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