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THE FIRST BALKAN WAR, 1912-1913
26 October 1912
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Frank Stanley Day Rose. Unit: 10th (Prince of Walesâ€™s Own Royal) Hussars. Death: 26 October 1914 near Zandvoorde Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Captain Arthur Gordon Hall. Unit: "D" Company, 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 26 October 1914, killed in action, Gheluvelt, Flanders, Western Front.
Died 26 October 1914
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Captain Edmund Harcourt Lees. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The Border Regiment. Death: 26 October 1914 Near Ypres Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Captain Edward Theodore Welchman DSO. Unit: 2nd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 26 October 1914 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Captain Evan Nanney Jones-Vaughan. Unit: C Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Death: 26 October 1914 Western Front.
Died 26 October 1914
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Captain Guy Rennie. Unit: 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 26 October 1914 Ypres Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Captain Loscombe Law Stable. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Death: 26 October 1914 Killed near Armentieres, France Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Captain Myles Lonsdall Formby. Unit: 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 26 October 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Western Front.
Died 26 October 1914
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Captain Theodore Crean. Unit: 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, attached to 4th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 26 October 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Captain William Gabriel King Peirce. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Death: 26 October 1914 at Festubert, Western Front.
Died 26 October 1914
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Lieutenant Charles Francis Nunneley MID. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Attached to 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 26 October 1914 Killed in action at Neuve Chapelle Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Lieutenant Charles Geoffrey Hume. Unit: B Company, 1st Battalion, South staffordshire Regiment. Death: 26 October 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Lieutenant Charles Heyland Evans. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 26 October 1914 Ypres. Son of Warren Edward and Helen Lloyd Evans, of Henblas, Llangefni, Anglesey.
Died 26 October 1914
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Lieutenant Charles John Murray. Unit: 4th Reserve Battalion, attached to 2nd Company, 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 26 October 1914 At Poezelhoek Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Lieutenant Charles Reginald Chamberlain Bean. Unit: 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 26 October 1914 Ypres Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Lieutenant Christopher Leather. Unit: 3rd (attached 1st ) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 26 October 1914 Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Lieutenant Christopher Randolph Turnor. Unit: 10th (Prince of Waless Own Royal) Hussars. Death: 26 October 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Lieutenant Clement Cottrell-Dormer. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 26 October 1914 Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Lieutenant Edward Benjamin Baker MID. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 26 October 1914
Died 26 October 1914
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Lieutenant Frederick Roger John Tomlinson. Unit: 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 26 October 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Lieutenant Frederick Wilberforce Alexander Steele MID twice. Unit: 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 26 October 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Lieutenant John Greville Hobart Bird. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 26 October 1914 Ypres Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Lieutenant Leslie Claude Moor-Radford. Unit: 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 26 October 1914 Near Ypres Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Lieutenant Philip Van Neck. Unit: 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 26 October 1914 Missing near Ypres Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Lieutenant Ralph Hamilton Fane Gladwin. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 26 October 1914, Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 26 October 1914
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Lieutenant Reginald Edward Porter. Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 26 October 1914 Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Lieutenant Richard Herbert Phayre. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Alexandra Princess of Walesâ€™s Own (Yorkshire Regiment). Death: 26 October 1914 Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Private Edward John Middleton Hipwell L/15708. Unit: "B" Company, 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 26 October 1914, killed in action at La Basee, Western Front. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.
Died 26 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Donald Stuart Stirling-Smurthwaite. Unit: A Company, 1st Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Death: 26 October 1914 Killed in action leading his Platoon at Ypres Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Jack Maynard Harding. Unit: 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 26 October 1914, killed in action at the First Battle of Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.
Died 26 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant John Alfred Undery. Unit: 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Death: 26 October 1914 Near Herlies Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Robert Nevin Carswell. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Death: 26 October 1914 Killed in action at La Bassee Western Front
Died 26 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Thomas Henry Bowley. Unit: 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment. Death: 26 October 1914
Died 26 October 1914
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Captain Cecil Fife Pryce Hamilton. Unit: 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 26 October 1915, killed in action at Ypres, Western Front.
Died 26 October 1915
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Recreation Grounds Divided Into Battalions by Wire Fence
26 October 1915
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THE FRENCH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
26 October 1915
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Private Sydney Edward Squibb 2090. Unit: 26th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps.. Death: 26 October 1916 Killed while carrying wounded man Western Front
Died 26 October 1916
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Able Seaman John Fraser R/92. Unit: Howe Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Death: 26 October 1917, Western Front. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Died 26 October 1917
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Corporal George Henry Bye 39992. Unit: 13th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. Death: 26 October 1917 Western Front
Died 26 October 1917
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IWM to Holt, E., Mrs.
26 October 1917
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Lance Corporal Bertram Keast 31066. Unit: 9th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. Death: 26 October 1917 Passchendale, Western Front.
Died 26 October 1917
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Lieutenant James Angus Scott. Unit: B Company, 7th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 26 October 1917 Missing in Houthoulet Forest near Ypres â€“ Staden railway. Western Front
Died 26 October 1917
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Lieutenant Philip Shaw. Unit: 6th Battalion, attached to 5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 26 October 1917 Wounded and missing in a neighbourhood of Ypres. Western Front
Died 26 October 1917
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Lieutenant Richard Victor Joseph Roy Agius. Unit: D Company, 2nd/3rd Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers). Death: 26 October 1917 Tyne Cot Western Front
Died 26 October 1917
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Private (Signaller) William Henry Smith 231344. Unit: A Company, 2nd/2nd Battalion, London Regiment. Death: 26 October 1917 Wounded and missing
Died 26 October 1917
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Private Francis Jarvis S/17869. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 26 October 1917 Western Front
Died 26 October 1917
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Private Frank Newton served with 1/5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He was from Macclesfield. His service number was 45002. He was killed in action on 26 October 1917 aged 22 during the Third Battle of Ypres. He is buried at Poelcapelle British
Died 26 October 1917
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Private Frederick Wilkins G/20049. Unit: 8th Platoon, B Company, 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment. Death: 26 October 1917 Missing in Ypres- Menin Road (No month given) Western Front
Died 26 October 1917
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Private George Edward Rigden 20019. Unit: 1st Battalion, Queenâ€™s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 26 October 1917 Western Front
Died 26 October 1917
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Private George Preston 472784. Unit: D Company, 46th Battalion, Saskatchewan Regiment, Canadian Infantry. Death: 26 October 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 26 October 1917
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Private H A Young G/20055. Unit: 1st Battalion, Queenâ€™s Own (Royal West Kent Regt).. Death: 26 October 1917 Killed at Menin Road, Ypres Western Front
Died 26 October 1917
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Private James Alfred Baines GS/59443. Unit: 2nd/4th Battalion, London Regiment, attached to Royal Fusiliers. Death: 26 October 1917
Died 26 October 1917
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Private James F Ellis. Service numbers: 178574; 5283; 33722. Unit: Royal Field Artillery, attached to Liverpool Regiment and then to 13th Platoon, 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 26 October 1917 Western Front.
Died 26 October 1917
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Private James Whittaker 260288. Unit: 2nd Platoon, A Company, 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 26 October 1917 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 26 October 1917
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Private Leslie Matthew Carter 5052. Unit: 7th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 26 October 1917 Died of wounds Belgium Western Front
Died 26 October 1917
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Private Lewis John Parry 20498. Unit: 1st Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment,. Death: 26 October 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 26 October 1917
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Private Walter Glennie 248051. Unit: 2nd/2nd Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers). Death: 26 October 1917, Western Front. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Died 26 October 1917
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Private William Daniel 736807. Unit: 2nd Company, 43rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 26 October 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 26 October 1917
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Private William Gray 859352. Unit: "D" Company, 43rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 26 October 1917, Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 26 October 1917
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Second Lieutenant Cyril Alfred Spencer Buck MM. Unit: 18th Battalion, London Regiment (London Irish Rifles); attached to 2nd/3rd Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers). Death: 26 October 1917 Western Front
Died 26 October 1917
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Second Lieutenant Francis Methuen Noel. Unit: 4th Battalion, attached 9th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. Death: 26 October 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 26 October 1917
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Second Lieutenant Keith Saxby Curtis. Unit: 14th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 26 October 1917 Killed in action in Flanders Western Front
Died 26 October 1917
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Second Lieutenant William Clarence May. Unit: D Company, 1st/5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 26 October 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 26 October 1917
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Sergeant F Percy C Mogridge 290022. Unit: 9th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. Death: 26 October 1917 Missing Near Ypres Western Front
Died 26 October 1917
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Sergeant Maurice Randall Fishwick 266790. Unit: "B" Company, 9th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. Death: 26 October 1917, Western Front.
Died 26 October 1917
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Sub Lieutenant William Joseph Shaw. Unit: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Howe Battalion, Royal Naval Division. Death: 26 October 1917 Missing
Died 26 October 1917
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THE BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE, JULY-NOVEMBER 1917
26 October 1917
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THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE HOME FRONT, 1914-1918
26 October 1917
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THE MEDICAL SERVICES ON THE HOME FRONT, 1914-1918
26 October 1917
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THE ROYAL NAVY ON THE HOME FRONT, 1914-1918
26 October 1917
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WAR CEMETERIES ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
26 October 1917
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
26 October 1918
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
26 October 1918
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