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Brevet Major Edward Martin Panter-Downes. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. Death: 26 August 1914 Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Arthur Claud Ward served with the 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, during the First World War. He was born in Jamaica. He served in the Boer War and received the Queen's South Africa Medal with two clasps. He received the Distinguished Servic
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Arthur Claud Ward, DSO , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Arthur Duncombe Shafto, D.S.O. , Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Arthur Duncombe Shafto. Unit: D Company, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment). Death: 26 August 1914 Killed in action at Audincourt Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Cecil Crampton Holmes. Unit: 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 26 August 1914, died of wounds at Framieres near Mons, Western Front.
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Charles Corbould Walker , Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Charles Fitzgerald Hamilton Trueman , Manchester Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Charles Fitzgerald Hamilton Trueman. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The Manchester Regiment. Death: 26 August 1914 Missing in action Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Charles Harold Bass , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Charles Hunter Browning , 28th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Cyril Oswald Denman-Jubb , Duke of Wellington's Own West Riding Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Edward Harington Reid. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Death: 26 August 1914 Le Cateau Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Edward Raymond Lloyd. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Death: 26 August 1914 During retirement from Mons. Cambrai German Hospital Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Francis William Mowbray Leader , Connaught Rangers
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Frank Scobell Nisbet MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment. Death: 26 August 1914 Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Frederick George Theobald , Royal Lancaster Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Frederick George Theobald. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Lancaster Regiment. Death: 26 August 1914 Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain George Evelyn Anson Northey. Unit: 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Attached to 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment. Death: 26 August 1914 Wounded and Missing in action near Le Cateau. Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Guy Maxwell Shipway , Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Guy Maxwell Shipway. Unit: 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 26 August 1914 Wounded 25 August 1914 while entrenching in fields near Favril, France. Died of wounds, after being taken to Etreux Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Hans Robert Sparenborg , Royal Lancaster Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Hans Robert Sparenborg. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Kingâ€™s Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment). Death: 26 August 1914 Killed in action at Harcourt near Le Cateau. Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Henry Clutterbuck , Royal Lancaster Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Henry Clutterbuck MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Death: 26 August 1914 Killed in action at Haucourt Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Henry Hammond Schjott D.S.O. , Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Henry Hammond Shott DSO. Unit: 1st Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales Own (Royal Berkshire Regiment). Death: 26 August 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain John Alexander Fraser. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Death: 26 August 1914, La Cateau, Western Front.
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Robert Bruce. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Death: 26 August 1914 Le Cateau Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Robert Yardley Sidebottom , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Robert Yardley Sidebottom. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. Death: 26 August 1914 Shot in the head and killed near Le Cateau during the retirement from Mons. Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Rowland Harry Mainwaring Moody , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Rowland Harry Mainwaring Moody. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Regiment. Death: 26 August 1914 Cambrai Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain The Hon Robert Bruce, Master of Burleigh , Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain William Montcharles Crofton Vandeleur. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The Essex Regiment. Death: 26 August 1914 Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain William Mountcharles Vandeleur , Essex Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Captain Wilmsdorff George Mansergh. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The Manchester Regiment.. Death: 26 August 1914 Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Corporal George Henry Graham 8788, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Lance Corporal John Edward Arkwright 9019, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
Died 26 August 1914
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Lance Corporal Michael Donlon 8287, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Lance Corporal Walter Moody 4721, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 26 August 1914
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Lance-Corporal Joseph Wilson 6398, Coldstream Guards
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant and Adjutant James Arthur Bowles , 28th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant Archibald Frederick Ritchie. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Kingâ€™s Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry). Death: 26 August 1914 At Le Cateau Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant Colonel Alfred McNair Dykes , Royal Lancaster Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Arthur Hugh Brett , Suffolk Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Arthur Hugh Brett DSO MID. Unit: Commander, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Death: 26 August 1914 Western Front.
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant Cyril Steele Steele-Perkins. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Kingâ€™s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Death: 26 August 1914 Killed in action at Haucourt (between Cambrai and Le Cateau) Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant David Erskine Boyle , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant David Erskine Boyle. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. Death: 26 August 1914 Cambrai Western Front. Son of the late Rear-Admiral Robert Hornby Boyle.
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant Edward Geoffrey Myddelton. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Death: 26 August 1914 at Le Cateau, Western Front.
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant Edward Montague Swayne Kent , Hampshire Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant Edward Montague Swayne Kent. Unit: 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Death: 26 August 1914 Near Cambrai, Western Front.
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant George Herbert Payne , Suffolk Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant Gerald Griffith , Hampshire Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant Gerald Griffith. Unit: 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Death: 26 August 1914, Western Front. Commemorated on the La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial.
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant James Arthur Bowles. Unit: Adjutant, 28th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 26 August 1914 Le Cateau Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant James David Gilkison , Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant James Keith Trotter , Gordon Highlanders
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant James Keith Trotter. Unit: 1st Battalion, the Gordon Highlanders. Death: 26 August 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant Mordaunt Edward Leonard Hannam Clarke , Worcestershire Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant Mordaunt Edward Leonard Hannam Clarke. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 26 August 1914 Killed in action at Caudry near Cambrai Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant Sir Robert Cornwallis Maude, Viscount Hawarden , Coldstream Guards
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant William Knox Humfrey , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 26 August 1914
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Lieutenant Wilmsdorff George Mansergh , Manchester Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Major Edward Martin Panter-Downes , Royal Irish Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Major Foster Swetenham , Dragoons
Died 26 August 1914
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Major Francis Gordon Grant Thoyts , Somerset Light Infantry
Died 26 August 1914
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Major Francis Gordon Grants Thoyts. Unit: 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. Death: 26 August 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Major Raymond England , 14th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Died 26 August 1914
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MAPS OF THE WESTERN FRONT
26 August 1914
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Private Daniel Hanrahan 9197, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Private George Bellamy 8561, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Private George T Ball 2387, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Private Henry Lamont 9410, Royal Scots
Died 26 August 1914
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Private James Daniels 8285, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Private James Doherty 8932, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Private John Connolly 7622, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Private John Crilley 9111, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 26 August 1914
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Private John Lyons 8534, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Private Michael Sullivan 6576, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Private Robert Mayersbeth 9857, South Wales Borderers
Died 26 August 1914
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Private Sidney Jakes Young 7239, Suffolk Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Private Walter Arthurs 2386, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Private Walter Tudgay 6748. Unit: 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. Death: 26 August 1914 Wounded and Missing in action Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Private William Charles Bain 10540, Royal Irish Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Private William Horrigan 7639, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
Died 26 August 1914
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Pte Alfred Hatton 8681, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Died 26 August 1914
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Pte Walter W Tudgay 6748, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 26 August 1914
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Second Lieutenant Edward Geoffrey Myddelton , Suffolk Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Second Lieutenant Gilbert Philip Hammond , King's Own Scottish Borderers
Died 26 August 1914
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Second Lieutenant Gilbert Philip Hammond. Unit: 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. Death: 26 August 1914, killed in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial.
Died 26 August 1914
Imperial War Museum

Second Lieutenant Lawrence Seymour Brockelbank , Royal Lancaster Regiment
Died 26 August 1914
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Second Lieutenant William Humphrey Coghlan , 15th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Died 26 August 1914
Lives of the First World War

Second Lieutenant William Humphrey Coghlan. Unit: 11th Battery, 15th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 26 August 1914 Killed in action at Le Cateau Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Second Lieutenant William Knox Humfrey. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. Death: 26 August 1914 Killed in action at Le Cateau Western Front
Died 26 August 1914
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Second Lieutenant William Knox Humfrey. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. Death: 26 August 1914 killed in action, Western Front. Son of Col. and Mrs. B. G. Humfrey, of Cavanacor, Ballindrait, Co. Donegal.
Died 26 August 1914
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Serjeant William Urquhart Sutherland 8260, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died 26 August 1914
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