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Assistant Engineer (Temporary) Alexander Mackie. Unit: Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Princess Irene. Death: 27 May 1915 Near Sheerness when ship was accidentally blown up
Died 27 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Assistant Engineer (Temporary) Donald Campbell. Unit: Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Princess Irene. Death: 27 May 1915 Sheerness Home Front. Son of Daniel and Janet Gray Campbell. Native of Doune, Perthshire.
Died 27 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Assistant Engineer (Temporary) Francis Joseph Grierson. Unit: Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Princess Irene. Death: 27 May 1915, Sheerness, Britain. Commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
Died 27 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Assistant Paymaster Albert Donald Stallard. Unit: Royal Navy, HMS Princess Irene. Death: 27 May 1915 Died when his ship was destroyed by explosion at Sheerness. English Channel
Died 27 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Captain Mervyn Hugh Cobbe. Unit: Royal Navy, Commanding HMS Princess Irene. Death: 27 May 1915 Killed when the â€œPrincess Ireneâ€ was accidentally blown up in the Medway, home waters
Died 27 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Commander Thomas Hector Molesworth Maurice. Unit: HMS Princess Irene, Royal Navy. Death: 27 May 1915 North Sea
Died 27 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Commander Humphrey Randle Upton Cottrell-Dormer. Unit: Royal Navy, HMS Princess Irene. Death: 27 May 1915 Lost his life when the HMS Princess Irene was destroyed by an explosion in Sheerness Harbour.
Died 27 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Cyril Graham. Unit: "A" Company, 1st/5th (Cumberland) Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 27 May 1915, Ypres, Western Front.
Died 27 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant John Montgomery Vaughan. Unit: 3rd Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Death: 27 May 1915 Wounded at Ypres on 24 May 1915 Western Front
Died 27 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Second Lieutenant John Parker Norfolk Simpson. Unit: 5th (Reserve) Battalion, attached to 3rd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Death: 27 May 1915 Wounded near Ypres 24 May 1915, died of wounds at Iseghem, Belgium Western Front
Died 27 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

Surgeon Frederick Whitby Quirk. Unit: HMS Princess Irene, Royal Navy. Death: 27 May 1915 North Sea
Died 27 May 1915
Imperial War Museum

THE FRENCH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
27 May 1916
Imperial War Museum

THE SERVICE OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL G H COOKE IN THE EAST AFRICA CAMPAIGN 1914 - 1918
27 May 1916
Imperial War Museum

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
27 May 1917
Imperial War Museum

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 May 1917
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Lance Corporal Bertram Robert Meiklejohn 201400. Unit: 7th Platoon, B Company, 5th/6th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 27 May 1917 Missing Western Front
Died 27 May 1917
Imperial War Museum

OFFICIAL VISITS TO THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
27 May 1917
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Rifleman John Barr 100704. Unit: 6th Platoon, B Company, 5th/6th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 27 May 1917 Western Front
Died 27 May 1917
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Second Lieutenant Henry Noel Grist. Unit: 173rd Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 27 May 1917, Western Front.
Died 27 May 1917
Imperial War Museum

Second Lieutenant Stewart Newlands. Unit: 7th Battalion, attached 1st Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 27 May 1917 Missing in action Western Front
Died 27 May 1917
Imperial War Museum

THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
27 May 1917
Imperial War Museum

The Submarine Picket
27 May 1917
Imperial War Museum

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum

Captain D Munro Smith. Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps.. Death: 27 May 1918 Missing
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum

Captain James Milner MC. Unit: Army Service Corps, attached 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. Death: 27 May 1918 Missing Western Front
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum

Gibson, Clara (?) to IWM
27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum

IWM to Crofton, M.A.
27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Paul Wrey Gardiner. Unit: 4th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, attached to the 1st Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 27 May 1918, killed in action, Aisne, Western Front. Commemorated on the Soissons Memorial.
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum

Pioneer Harry Bell. Unit: Entrenching Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 27 May 1918
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum

Private (Signaller) Albert H Booth 41425. Unit: B Company, Leicestershire Regiment. Death: 27 May 1918
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum

Private Edward Thomas Dawson 170815/237044. Unit: Sussex Yeomanry, attached to Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 27 May 1918 Missing in action
Died 27 May 1918
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Private Ernest J Kendall 204110. Unit: Worcestershire Regiment. Death: 27 May 1918 missing in action.
Died 27 May 1918
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Private Robert W Barneveld 46778/305998. Unit: 5th Battalion, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade), attached to 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 27 May 1918
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum

Ross King, Alice to IWM
27 May 1918
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Second Lieutenant C. E. Holliday. Unit: Royal Field Artillery. Death: 27 May 1918 to 31 May 1918, missing in action.
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum

Second Lieutenant Claude Sydenham. Unit: South African Artillery, serving with 39th Division, French Army, but Attached to the British Ambulance Service. Death: 27 May 1918 MIA near Soissons Western Front
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum

Second Lieutenant David Joseph A'Herne 762. Unit: Honourable Artillery Company, attached to the 116th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 27 May 1918, missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Soissons Memorial.
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum

Second Lieutenant Ernest Alexander Jackson. Unit: B Company, 6th Battalion, attached to 8th Battalion, Border Regiment. Death: 27 May 1918 Western Front.
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum

Second Lieutenant John Lindsay Rapoport. Unit: 6th Battalion, attached to 12th Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 27 May 1918 Missing Western Front
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum

Sergeant John Robertson Field 250246. Unit: "Y" Company, 1st/6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Death: 27 May 1918, missing in action, Western Front.
Died 27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum

Starr (?), Frances H to IWM
27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum

TECHNICAL DRAWINGS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR AIRCRAFT
27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum

THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum

THE GERMAN SPRING OFFENSIVE, MARCH-JULY 1918
27 May 1918
Imperial War Museum

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