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Battery Sergeant Major Arthur Ernest Harris 3022. Unit: 8th Battery, Transvaal Horse Artillery (Active Citizen Force Artillery). Death: 26 September 1914, killed in action at Sandfontein, South-West Africa (present day Namibia).
Died 26 September 1914
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BRITISH OFFICIAL PANORAMAS OF THE WESTERN FRONT 1914 - 1918
26 September 1914
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Captain Harold Casamajor Davies. Unit: Reserve of Officers, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Death: 26 September 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 26 September 1914
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Lieutenant Aubrey Wells Hudson. Unit: 5th Battalion, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 26 September 1914, missing in action at the Aisne, Western Front. Commemorated on the La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial.
Died 26 September 1914
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Lieutenant George Prescott Blackall-Simonds. Unit: 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers; Reserve of Officers. Death: 26 September 1914 Vendressem Western Front.
Died 26 September 1914
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Lieutenant James Francis Hewitt. Unit: 1st Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 26 September 1914, Western Front. Commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial.
Died 26 September 1914
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Lieutenant William Ormsby Wyndham Ball. Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 26 September 1914 Soupir Western Front
Died 26 September 1914
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Major Glynne Everard Earle Welby. Unit: D Company, 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers. Death: 26 September 1914 Killed in Action. Western Front
Died 26 September 1914
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Second Lieutenant John Dundas Manley. Unit: 26th Field Company, Special Reserve, Royal Engineers. Death: 26 September 1914 Western Front
Died 26 September 1914
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THE GERMAN INVASION OF BELGIUM AND FRANCE, AUGUST-NOVEMBER 1914
26 September 1914
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THE RACE TO THE SEA, SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1914
26 September 1914
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Brigadier General Norman Tom F Nickalls. Unit: 17th Lancers, commanding 63rd Infantry Brigade, 21st Division, 11th Army. Death: 26 September 1915 Killed in action Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Captain Francis Edward Myddleton-Gavey. Unit: 2nd Battalion, attached to the 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 26 September 1915, Gallipoli, Dardanelles. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial.
Died 26 September 1915
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Captain James Topham. Unit: Adjutant, 8th Lincolnshire Regiment, 63rd Brigade, 21st Division. Death: 26 September 1915 Missing in action at Hill 70 Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Captain John Kekewich. Unit: D Company, 8th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Death: 26 September 1915 Wounded near Vermelles Western Front.
Died 26 September 1915
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Captain Patrick Maitland Robertson-Ross. Unit: D Company, 8th Battalion, Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 26 September 1915 Between Hulluch and Loos Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Captain Philip Stafford Gordon Wainman MID. Unit: 6th Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 26 September 1915 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Corporal David Grant 19050. Unit: "D" Company, 12th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 26 September 1915, Loos, Western Front. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
Died 26 September 1915
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Corporal Frederick Henry Chapman G/1721. Unit: D Company, 8th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Death: 26 September 1915 Missing in action at Loos Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Corporal Harold John Dixon 15218. Unit: 8th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. Death: 26 September 1915 Wounded and Missing in action at Loos Western Front.
Died 26 September 1915
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Lance Corporal Reginald Harry Watts G/3412. Unit: 8th Battalion, East Kent Regiment (The Buffs). Death: 26 September 1915 Missing in Action near Vermelles Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Lance Corporal Walter Findlay G/4262. Unit: 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Death: 26 September 1915, Loos, Western Front.
Died 26 September 1915
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Lieutenant Arthur Alfred Piggott. Unit: 13th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 26 September 1915 Missing Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Lieutenant Arthur Herbert Raynes. Unit: 11th Battalion, Essex Regiment. Death: 26 September 1915 Loos Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Edward Radclyffe DSO. Unit: 11th Battalion, Essex Regiment, formerly Rifle Brigade. Death: 26 September 1915 La Brasse Rd Hulluch Village Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Lieutenant Laurence Collier Hatch. Unit: 14th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Death: 26 September 1915 to 28 September 1915, missing in action at Loos, Western Front. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
Died 26 September 1915
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Lieutenant Philip Charles Worthington Bosworth. Unit: 8th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 26 September 1915 Loos Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Lieutenant Richard Neville Strutt. Unit: 12th Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots. Death: 26 September 1915 MIA either in Artois or at Hooge. Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Lieutenant Robert William Lee Dodds. Unit: B Company, 13th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 26 September 1915 Missing in action near Loos Western Front.
Died 26 September 1915
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Lieutenant Ronald Whidborne Elverson. Unit: 9th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Death: 26 September 1915 Loos Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Lieutenant William Hugh Grant. Unit: 7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. Death: 26 September 1915, Western Front. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
Died 26 September 1915
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Major George Herbert Stevenson. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Death: 26 September 1915 Wounded and MIA near Hulluch. Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Major John Young Storer. Unit: 8th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 26 September 1915 MIA at Loos Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Major Laurence Brock-Hollinshead. Unit: 8th Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 26 September 1915 Wounded and Missing in action at Loos Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Private Albert William Alfred Milner G/4334. Unit: D Company, 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment. Death: 26 September 1915 Missing At Loos Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Private Charles James Neville served with 'B' Company, 6th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. He originated from Glasgow. His service number was 14757. He was recorded as missing on 26 September 1915 during the Battle of Loos, aged 19. He commemorated at
Died 26 September 1915
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Private Donald Alexander 206. Unit: "B" Company, 28th Battalion, 9th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 26 September 1915, Gallipoli, Dardanelles.
Died 26 September 1915
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Private George G Payne 2988. Unit: D Company, 8th Battalion, East Kent Regiment (The Buffs). Death: 26 September 1915 Missing Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Private George Low 3141. Unit: 10th Platoon, C Company, 4th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 26 September 1915 Missing at Hooge Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Private Joseph Goodman 10449. Unit: "A" Company, 8th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 26 September 1915, Loos, Western Front. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
Died 26 September 1915
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Private Thomas Francis Mercer G/4083. Unit: 14th Platoon, D Company, 8th Battalion, East Kent Regiment (The Buffs). Death: 26 September 1915 Missing Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Private William Oag S/7185. Unit: A Company, 8th Battalion, Black Watch, 26th Infantry Brigade, 9th Division. Death: 26 September 1915 Missing at Hulluch Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Second Lieutenant Arthur Wright Bosworth. Unit: 8th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 26 September 1915 Loos Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Second Lieutenant Cecil Arthur Bedells. Unit: 11th Battalion, Essex Regiment. Death: 26 September 1915 Loos Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Second Lieutenant Charles Percival Waldie. Unit: D Company, 8th Battalion, The Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 26 September 1915 Wounded and Missing in Action near Hulluch Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Second Lieutenant E W Pidduck. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Death: 26 September 1915 Missing Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Second Lieutenant Edis John William Gray. Unit: 14th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Death: 26 September 1915, Loos, Western Front. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
Died 26 September 1915
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Second Lieutenant James Henry Roland Hanning. Unit: "C" Company, 8th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, 63rd Infantry Brigade, 21st Division. Death: 26 September 1915, killed in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
Died 26 September 1915
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Second Lieutenant Kenneth Desmond Murray. Unit: 9th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Death: 26 September 1915 missing near Hulluch Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Second Lieutenant Lewis William Yule MID. Unit: 7th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 26 September 1915 Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Second Lieutenant Raymond Francis Topham Burrell. Unit: 8th Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), 72nd Brigade, 24th Division. Death: 26 September 1915 Wounded and Missing at Hulluch Western Front.
Died 26 September 1915
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Second Lieutenant Thomas Sydney H Schafer. Unit: 13th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers.. Death: 26 September 1915 Wounded and missing at Loos. Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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Signaller Private Thomas Wood G/5541. Unit: 8th Battalion, East Kent Regiment (The Buffs). Death: 26 September 1915 Missing in Action at the Battle of Loos Western Front
Died 26 September 1915
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THE GERMAN ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT: 1914-1915
26 September 1915
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THE SECOND BATTLE OF CHAMPAGNE, SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 1915
26 September 1915
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
26 September 1916
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Captain Archibald Alan Schweder MC. Unit: 9th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Death: 26 September 1916 Killed in action in France.. Western Front, Gallipoli/Dardanelles
Died 26 September 1916
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Cpl May served nearly 10 years with C Company, the Devonshire Regiment, prior to being killed, aged 30, at Morval during the Battle of the Somme on 26 September 1916. He was buried at Ginchy and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 26 September 1916
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Lieutenant Thomas Earle Gordon Scaife MC. Unit: 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers), attached to 9th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 26 September 1916
Died 26 September 1916
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Lieutenant Thomas Stuart Pitman. Unit: 6th Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment. Death: 26 September 1916 Western Front
Died 26 September 1916
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Major Alman Clare Williams. Unit: 5th Battalion, Saskatchewan Regiment, Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 26 September 1916
Died 26 September 1916
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Private Alexander Taylor Boddie 441512. Unit: 14th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment). Death: 26 September 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 26 September 1916
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Private Charles Harold Fleming 180043. Unit: "A" Company, 29th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 26 September 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 26 September 1916
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Private F Watts 180330. Unit: Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 26 September 1916 Missing in Action. Western Front
Died 26 September 1916
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Private Horatio Claughton 21960. Unit: 8th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 26 September 1916, missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commmemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 26 September 1916
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Private Howard William Myers 10675. Unit: 11th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 26 September 1916 Missing & wounded Western Front
Died 26 September 1916
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Private James Mansfield Coates 180019. Unit: 88th Battalion (Victoria Fusiliers), attached to the 1st Company, 7th Battalion (British Columbia Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 26 September 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 26 September 1916
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Private John Edward Swann Singer 466635. Unit: 8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment).. Death: 26 September 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 26 September 1916
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Private John Jacques 101315. Unit: Canadian Infantry. Death: 26 September 1916
Died 26 September 1916
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Private Montague Clarence Frost G/1360. Unit: Machine Gun Section, "B" Company, 8th Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 26 September 1916, Loos, Western Front.
Died 26 September 1916
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Private Noel Marsh Pitman G2759. Unit: 12th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 26 September 1916 Western Front
Died 26 September 1916
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Private Ralph Robinson 27894. Unit: 1st Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 26 September 1916 Western Front
Died 26 September 1916
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Private Richard Britten Wright 3836. Unit: 1st/7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 26 September 1916 Died of wounds severely wounded in the attack on Lens Wood on 15 September 1916. Western Front
Died 26 September 1916
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Private William Poskitt G/40093. Unit: 12th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 26 September 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 26 September 1916
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Pte Nice was reported missing, aged 20, at Thiepval on 26 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 26 September 1916
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Pte Odell of B Company was reported wounded and missing, age 26, on 26 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is buried at Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuile.
Died 26 September 1916
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Second Lieutenant Henry Oliver Beer. Unit: 8th Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 26 September 1916 Loos Western Front
Died 26 September 1916
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THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, JULY-NOVEMBER 1916
26 September 1916
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Corporal Ellis Eric Cork 2472. Unit: D Company, 31st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 26 September 1917 Killed in action at Polygon Wood Western Front
Died 26 September 1917
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Ditmas, E., Captain to IWM
26 September 1917
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IWM to Alcock, Mrs.
26 September 1917
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IWM to Beatty, Lady
26 September 1917
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Lance Corporal Cedric Stanley Morrison 2381 MM. Unit: 1st Company, Australian Machine Gun Corps. Death: 26 September 1917 Ypres
Died 26 September 1917
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Lieutenant Claude Henry Chute. Unit: 31st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 26 September 1917 Western Front
Died 26 September 1917
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Lieutenant Colonel Roger Alvin Poore DSO. Unit: Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Death: 26 September 1917 Western Front
Died 26 September 1917
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