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Acting Corporal Arthur Herbert Owen 10555, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Air Mechanic 2nd Class George Charles Norton 19774, Royal Flying Corps
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Company Serjeant Major John Antley 9183, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Company Serjeant Major Richard McFadden F/162, Middlesex Regiment
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Corporal Francis Edwin Hancock 20181, Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Gunner John Harris 98321, Royal Field Artillery
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

L/Cpl Richard Addison 13466, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Lance Corporal Christopher Hands 27262. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment. Death: 23 October 1916, missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 23 October 1916
Imperial War Museum

Lance Corporal Harry Sidney Lucas 24047. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment. Death: 23 October 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 23 October 1916
Imperial War Museum

Lance Corporal John William Booker G/18183, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Lieutenant Edgar Harold Holmes Turner , Welsh Regiment
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Lieutenant Edgar Harold Holmes Turner. Unit: 11th Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Death: 23 October 1916, killed in action at Machukovo, Macedonia. Buried at the Karasouli Cemetery.
Died 23 October 1916
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Thomas Ellis Parry , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Lizzie Jones, Munitions work. Died of TNT poisoning 23 October 1916.
Died 23 October 1916
Imperial War Museum

Maßnahmen zur Einlieferung der Ernteüberschüsse - Kundmachung - Užice
23 October 1916
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library

Maßnahmen zur Einlieferung der Ernteüberschüsse - Kundmachung - Užice - Mehrsprachiges Plakat
23 October 1916
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library

Munitions Worker Lizzie Jones ,
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Archibald Onslow Morgan G/40414, Middlesex Regiment
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Basil Richard Cross 15973. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 23 October 1916 Killed in action at Les Boeufs Western Front
Died 23 October 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Frank Jelly 37631. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. Death: 23 October 1916 Western Front.
Died 23 October 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Gabe Thompson 213449, 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private George Albert Davies 14303, Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private George Fynn 20630. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 23 October 1916, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 23 October 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private George Henry Dawkins G/22770. Unit: Middlesex Regiment. Death: 23 October 1916 Missing in action
Died 23 October 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private H Lowe 2059. Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps, 26th Field Ambulance. Death: 23 October 1916 Near Givenchy Western Front
Died 23 October 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Harold James Hill 2697, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Horace Charles Holder 5978, 2/13th Kensington Bn,London Regiment
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Hugh Atkinson 6987, East Lancashire Regiment
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private James McKenna 26656. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Death: 23 October 1916 Western Front
Died 23 October 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Jasper Matthews Batey F/60, Middlesex Regiment
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private John Cain 9091, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Joseph Berrington 1874, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Owen Birchby Alvey 192985, Canadian Infantry
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Thomas Arthur Swain 96131, Royal Field Artillery
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Thomas Henry Oram G/40444, Middlesex Regiment
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Walter Atkins 2258, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private William Frederick Burden 6275, London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private William Haxton 4130, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Rifleman Charles James Pretty S/14879. Unit: B Company, 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 23 October 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 23 October 1916
Imperial War Museum

Sapper Edward Jeffrey Austen 3022, Royal Engineers
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Second Lieutenant John Hamilton Marshall , East Lancashire Regiment
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Second Lieutenant William Clifford Hales , Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Serjeant Robert McBeath McRae 9174, Seaforth Highlanders
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

Stoker Edward Smith 9034S, HMS Genista
Died 23 October 1916
Lives of the First World War

THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, JULY-NOVEMBER 1916
23 October 1916
Imperial War Museum

THE FRENCH NAVY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1914-1918
23 October 1916
Imperial War Museum

THE GERMAN ARMY IN THE ROMANIAN CAMPAIGN, 1916-1918
23 October 1916
Imperial War Museum

View from our Coal Cart, 23rd October 1916
23 October 1916
Imperial War Museum

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