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Captain Shakespear was born in India in 1878 and educated at Portsmouth Grammar School, King William's College, Isle of Man and Sandhurst. In 1898, he received a commission with 1 Battalion, Devonshire Regiment before transferring to the Indian Army in 1
Died 24 January 1915
Imperial War Museum

Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear , Indian Army
Died 24 January 1915
Lives of the First World War

Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear. Unit: 17th Bengal Cavalry, Indian Army and Indian Political Department. Death: 24 January 1915 Fell in tribal fighting Mesopotamia
Died 24 January 1915
Imperial War Museum

Lance Corporal Roger Crook Pepler 652, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Died 24 January 1915
Lives of the First World War

Lieutenant Jay Crawford-Kehrmann , Rifle Brigade
Died 24 January 1915
Lives of the First World War

Private George Firth 11037, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 24 January 1915
Lives of the First World War

Study for HMS 'Aurora's' 6-inch gun in action at the Battle of the Dogger Bank, 24 January 1915. Inscribed 'Aurora's 6 inch gun in action / Dogger Bank', and signed by the artist, lower right. It also bears technical notes on
probably 1915
National Maritime Museum

THE BATTLE OF DOGGER BANK, 24 JANUARY 1915
24 January 1915
Imperial War Museum