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Captain Albert Alexander Leslie Stephen DSO. Unit: Adjutant, 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 31 October 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Captain Eric Charles Schooling. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment.. Wounded in November 1914 missing in March 1915. Reported to be Killed in action at Gheluvelt, Belgium, on 31 October 1914. Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Captain Ernest Hugh Lyddon. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 31 October 1914 At Ypres Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Captain Graham Percival Shedden. Unit: 35th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 31 October 1914 Died of wounds received at Chateau of Hooge near Ypres, when a shell struck British headquarters Western Front.
Died 31 October 1914
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Captain Hugh Clervaux Chaytor. Unit: 26th King George's Own Light Infantry, attached to 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars, Indian Army. Death: 31 October 1914 Killed in action Age 30 years Messines,Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Captain Ian Bouverie Maxwell. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers. Death: 31 October 1914 Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Captain John Edmund Simpson MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Kingâ€™s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Death: 31 October 1914 Killed at Messines, Flanders Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Captain John Spottiswoode. Unit: 6th Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Kingâ€™s Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 31 October 1914 Killed in action at Gheluvelt, in the Battle of Ypres Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Captain Lancelot Barrington Crofts Tristram. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The Leicestershire Regiment. Death: 31 October 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Captain Leslie Sedgwick Whitchurch. Unit: 21st Prince Albert Victors Own Cavalry (Frontier Force, Dalys Horse), attached to 5th Dragoon Guards. Death: 31 October 1914 Killed in Action at Messines Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Captain Mervyn Crawshay. Unit: 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards. Death: 31 October 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Captain Richard Crofton George Moore Kinkead MB. Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to 10th (Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars. Death: 31 October 1914 Western Front. Son of Prof. R. J. and Emily Kinkead, of Foster House, Galway.
Died 31 October 1914
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Captain Richard Vincent Barker MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers; Staff Captain, 22nd Brigade. Death: 31 October 1914 Ypres Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Captain Ronald Steuart Gordon. Unit: 57th Wilde's Rifles (Frontier Force), Indian Army. Death: 31 October 1914, Messines, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 31 October 1914
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Captain Waldo Alington Gwennap Moore. Unit: 2nd Battalion, the Welsh Regiment. Death: 31 October 1914 Near Ypres Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Captain Walter Hughes Ferrar. Unit: Adjutant, 2nd Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Death: 31 October 1914, Western Front.
Died 31 October 1914
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Captain William Joseph Wickham. Unit: 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 31 October 1914 Killed in Action at Ypres Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Captain William McMillan Black MID. Unit: Adjutant, 58th Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force), Indian Army. Death: 31 October 1914 Western Front.
Died 31 October 1914
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Colonel Frederic Walter Kerr DSO. Unit: 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, attached to 1st Division HQ Staff General Staff as GSO1. Death: 31 October 1914 Western Front.
Died 31 October 1914
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Lieutenant Alan Randall Aufrere Leggett. Unit: 1st Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment.. Death: 31 October 1914 At Armentieres Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Lieutenant Archibald Stuart Bullock Graham. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 31 October 1914, Ypres, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 31 October 1914
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Lieutenant Cecil Francis Crousaz. Unit: 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 31 October 1914 Killed in action at Zonnebeke near Ypres Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Lieutenant Colonel Walter Edward Venour. Unit: 58th Vaughanâ€™s Rifles (Frontier Force). Death: 31 October 1914 Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Lieutenant Edmund Elgood Punchard MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 31 October 1914 Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Lieutenant Edmund Wilkinson DCM MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Death: 31 October 1914
Died 31 October 1914
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Lieutenant Edward Hubert Leatham. Unit: 12th (Prince of Walesâ€™s Royal) Lancers. Death: 31 October 1914 Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Lieutenant Frank Vincent Thicke. Unit: Staff Officer, 22nd Infantry Brigade, 7th Division, Interpreter to Brigadier General Lawford. Death: 31 October 1914, missing in action, Western Front.
Died 31 October 1914
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Lieutenant George Archer-Shee. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 31 October 1914 Ypres Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Lieutenant Godfrey Evan Hugh MacDonald. Unit: 1st Battalion, Scotts Guards. Death: 31 October 1914 Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Lieutenant Kenneth Croft North MID. Unit: 4th (Queenâ€™s Own) Hussars, commanding the machine gun section.. Death: 31 October 1914 Killed in action at Hollebeke Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Lieutenant Lionel Hope Hawkins. Unit: 1st (King's) Dragoon Guards, attached to the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers). Death: 31 October 1914, killed in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 31 October 1914
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Lieutenant Philip Francis Payne-Gallwey. Unit: 21st (Empress of Indiaâ€™s) Lancers, attached to 9th (Queens Royal) Lancers. Death: 31 October 1914 Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Lieutenant Philip Walter Rudolph Doll. Unit: Machine Gun Officer, 1st/8th Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 31 October 1914 Killed in action near Ypres Western Front.
Died 31 October 1914
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Lieutenant Piers Stewart St Aubyn. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Kingâ€™s Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 31 October 1914 Wounded and missing at Gheluvelt Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Lieutenant Spencer Julian Wilfred Railston. Unit: 18th Battalion, King Georgeâ€™s Own Lancers, Indian Army, attached to 4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish). Death: 31 October 1914 Messines Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Major (Temporary Lieutenant Colonel) Arthur Jex-Blake Percival DSO. Unit: Northumberland Fusiliers, attached to 2nd Division Staff, General Staff. Death: 31 October 1914 Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Major George Geoffrey Prendergast Humphreys. Unit: 127th Queen Mary's Own Baluch Light Infantry, Indian Army. Death: 31 October 1914 Died of wounds at Hollebeke Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Major George Paley. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, (The Prince Consortâ€™s Own), attached as GSO2 1st Division Staff. Death: 31 October 1914 Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Major James Alexander Browning MID. Unit: 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays). Death: 31 October 1914. Son of Mr. E. C. Browning; husband of Lilian Browning, of Greengates, Wargrave, Berks.
Died 31 October 1914
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Major John Frederick Loder-Symonds. Unit: 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 31 October 1914 First Ypres Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Major Neil MacPherson. Unit: 2nd in Command, 2nd King Edwardâ€™s Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles). Death: 31 October 1914 Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Major William Ernest Watson DSO. Unit: 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers). Death: 31 October 1914 Missing in Action at Messines. Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Major William Lyttleton Lawrence DSO. Unit: 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers.. Death: 31 October 1914 Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Private Albert Selby 8974. Unit: B Company, 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 31 October 1914 Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Private Douglas George Sully 1922. Unit: C Company, 1st/14th Battalion (London Scottish), London Regiment. Death: 31 October 1914 Wounded and MIA at Messines Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Private Frederick James Wheeler 6274. Unit: B Company, 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 31 October 1914 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Private John Chown 7612. Unit: B Company, 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 31 October 1914 Missing in action Aged 25years Ypres,Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Private Robert Clive Forrest 2204. Unit: "B" Company, 1st/14th Battalion, London Regiment (London Scottish). Death: 31 October 1914, Messines, Western Front.
Died 31 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Arnold Septimus Guy Jarvis. Unit: 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Death: 31 October 1914 Western Front.
Died 31 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Arthur Knight Nicholson. Unit: B Squadron, 18th Hussars. Death: 31 October 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant George Hopkins Stanley. Unit: D Company, 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 31 October 1914 Killed in action near Ploegsteert. Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Harold Osborne Powell. Unit: Special Reserve, C Squadron, 4th Dragoon Guards, Royal Irish. Death: 31 October 1914 Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant John Agar Paterson. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 31 October 1914 Western Front
Died 31 October 1914
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Sergeant William Reynolds 7888. Unit: A Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Death: 31 October 1914
Died 31 October 1914
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THE BATTLE OF MESSINES, OCTOBER 1914
31 October 1914
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THE BATTLE OF MESSINES, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1914
31 October 1914
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THE FIRST BATTLE OF YPRES, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1914
31 October 1914
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THE GERMAN INVASION OF BELGIUM AND FRANCE, AUGUST-NOVEMBER, 1914
31 October 1914
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Nurse Gertrude L Roskell, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness contracted on duty in Alexandria 31 October 1915.
Died 31 October 1915
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P.O.W. Concert Band-Sunday Evenings
31 October 1915
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Private Westley Wentworth Currie 4764. Unit: 59th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 31 October 1916 Killed in action while acting as a stretcher bearer Western Front
Died 31 October 1916
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Second Lieutenant William John Angus. Unit: Royal Scots Fusiliers, attached to "D" Company, 1st Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 31 October 1916, missing, â€˜Hazy Trench', Le Transloy, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Mem
Died 31 October 1916
Imperial War Museum

A Balloon Ascending, Gaza : one of the 'sausages' going up to spot for the guns of the monitors
31 October 1917
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
31 October 1917
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
31 October 1917
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IWM to Spratt, Mrs.
31 October 1917
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Lieutenant Hedley Bruce New of the 4th Battalion, Essex Regiment. He was attached to No 3 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. He was recorded as missing on 31 October 1917 aged 24. He is commemorated at the Arras Flying Service Memorial.
Died 31 October 1917
Imperial War Museum

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