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THE ROYAL NAVY, PRE-1914
22 June 1893
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THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 1905
22 January 1905
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AVIATION IN BRITAIN BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR
22 January 1910
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BRITISH AIRSHIPS
22 May 1911
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BRITISH AVIATION PRIOR TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR
22 May 1913
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Lieutenant George Masterman Thompson Croix de Guerre with Palms (France).. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Scots. Death: 22 August 1914 Killed in action West Africa
Died 22 August 1914
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Second Lieutenant Vincent Waterfall. Unit: 3rd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, attached to 5th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 22 August 1914 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 22 August 1914
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THE BATTLE AND RETREAT FROM MONS AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1914
22 August 1914
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THE BATTLE AND RETREAT FROM MONS AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1914
22 August 1914
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THE BATTLE AND RETREAT FROM MONS, AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1914
22 August 1914
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THE BATTLE AND RETREAT FROM MONS, AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1914
22 August 1914
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THE GERMAN AIR FORCE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
22 August 1914
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Able Seaman George Willis Ellis J/1773. Unit: Royal Navy, HMS Aboukir. Death: 22 September 1914 at sea. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis, of 301, Earsham St., Pitsmoor, Sheffield. Six years' service.
Died 22 September 1914
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Captain Frederick Henry Mahony MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Death: 22 September 1914 Western Front
Died 22 September 1914
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Commander Robert Henry Grazebrook. Unit: HMS Cressy, Royal Navy. Death: 22 September 1914, went down with his ship. Commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.
Died 22 September 1914
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Lieutenant Thomas Gilliat Meautys. Unit: 1st Battalion, Price of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment). Death: 22 September 1914 Western Front
Died 22 September 1914
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Petty Officer 1st Class Leonard Nelvington (Kalvington?) Hatton 198556. Unit: Royal Navy, HMS Hogue. Death: 22 September 1914, when HMS Hogue was lost at sea, English Channel. Commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.
Died 22 September 1914
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Second Lieutenant Eric Harold Tottie. Unit: 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 22 September 1914 Died of wounds at Braisne Wounded 19 September 1914 at the B attle of the Aisne Western Front
Died 22 September 1914
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THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE AISNE, SEPTEMBER 1914
22 September 1914
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Captain Henry Ouseley Davis. Unit: 5th Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 22 October 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
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Captain Hugh Irving St. John Hartford. Unit: 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Death: 22 October 1914, missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.
Died 22 October 1914
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Captain John Arthur Orr DSO. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. Death: 22 October 1914 Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
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Captain Mervyn Keats Sandys. Unit: 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. Death: 22 October 1914 Killed at Touquet near Fleurbaix, France in an attempt to recover a lost trench. Reported wounded and missing on 22 October 1914 and 25 October 1914 repo
Died 22 October 1914
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Captain Ronald Hugh Walrond Rose MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 22 October 1914 Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
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Captain Thomas Henry Rivers Bulkeley CMG MVO. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 22 October 1914 Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
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Captain William Arthur Mould Temple. Unit: 1st Battalion, Gloucester Regiment. Death: 22 October 1914 Wounded on 21st Ocotober 1914, Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
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FRENCH AIRCRAFT OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914 - 1918
22 October 1914
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Lieutenant Athol Benedict Trewman. Unit: 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 22 October 1914 Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
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Lieutenant Charles Dunlop. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Death: 22 October 1914 Wounded at the Battle of the Aisne Died of wounds at Versailles Western Front.
Died 22 October 1914
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Lieutenant Charles Roger Ripley MID. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. Death: 22 October 1914 near Lille Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
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Lieutenant Colonel Bertram Edmund Ward MID. Unit: Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 22 October 1914 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
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Lieutenant Frank Cooper Ledgard. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Alexandra Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment). Death: 22 October 1914 Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
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Lieutenant J Litchfield. Unit: 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 22 October 1914 Wounded at Le Bassee Missing since 22 Oct 1914 Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
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Lieutenant William Bernard Webster Lawson. Unit: 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 22 October 1914 At Boesinghe Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
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Lieutenant William Henry Gordon Dods. Unit: 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment. Death: 22 October 1914 Killed in action Western Front.
Died 22 October 1914
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Major William Northey DSO. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Death: 22 October 1914 Died of wounds Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
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Private E Meehan 6925. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 22 October 1914 Missing Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Henry Noel Atkinson DSO MID. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Death: 22 October 1914 Wounded and Missing at Violaines near La Bassee Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
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Trooper Clifford William Rich 1461. Unit: 5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Waless). Death: 22 October 1914 At Messines Western Front
Died 22 October 1914
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Captain Alexander Clairmonte Anderson. Unit: 6th Jat Light Infantry, Indian Army. Death: 22 November 1914 Festubert near Beune, France Western Front
Died 22 November 1914
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Captain Arthur Gerald Ritchie MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 22 November 1914 wounded by sniper died in hospital at Boulogne Western Front
Died 22 November 1914
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Major Henry Bingham Whistler Smith-Rewse. Unit: 51st Battery, 36th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 22 November 1914 Died of wounds after being hit by heavy shell fire 22 November 1914 near Ypres. Western Front
Died 22 November 1914
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THE ROYAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
22 November 1914
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THE ROYAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
22 November 1914
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Captain Alec George Malcolm Graham. Unit: 6th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, attached to the 1st Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Death: 22 December 1914, Western Front. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.
Died 22 December 1914
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Captain Geoffrey Stewart. Unit: 1st Battn., Coldstream Guards, Reserve of Officers. Death: 22 December 1914 Killed when retiring from lone reconnaissance made to enemy trenches at Givenchy. Flanders Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
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Captain George Henry Smart. Unit: 4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion, The Prince of Wale’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), attached to The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Death: 22 December 1914 Killed at Le Touret, France Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
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Captain Godfrey Lionel John Cavendish. Unit: 97th Deccan Infantry, attached to 1st Battalion, 9th Bhopal Infantry, Indian Army. Death: 22 December 1914 Killed in action Age 31 Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
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Captain Hugh Connor Henry O’Brien. Unit: 1st Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 22 December 1914 La Bassee France Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
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Company Sergeant Major Harry Bailey 6475. Unit: A Company, 1st Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Death: 22 December 1914
Died 22 December 1914
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Lieutenant Christopher Francis Verrall MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Death: 22 December 1914 At Epinette near La Bassee Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
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Lieutenant John Richard Baggallay Weeding MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Death: 22 December 1914 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
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Lieutenant Richard William Danckwerts. Unit: 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 22 December 1914 Died of wounds at Festubert Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
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Major Charles Bliss CIE. Unit: 1st Battalion, 1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment). Death: 22 December 1914 Of wounds Lillers Western Front. Son of Sir Henry W. Bliss, K.C.I.E.
Died 22 December 1914
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Major Edmund Peel Thomson. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 22 December 1914 Killed in action at Festubert Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
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Major Francis Innes Day. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 22 December 1914 Killed in action at Givenchy Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
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Second Lieutenant Bevil Douglas Tollemache. Unit: Special Reserve, attached 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 22 December 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
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Second Lieutenant Edward Archibald Beauchamp. Unit: 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 22 December 1914 Of wounds at Givenchy-la-Basse Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
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Second Lieutenant Edward Archibald Beauchamp. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 22 December 1914 Died of wounds Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
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Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Chauner Wainwright. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Death: 22 December 1914 Wounded 21 December 1914 near Givenchy. Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
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Second Lieutenant Luke Frederick Rennell Coleridge. Unit: 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 22 December 1914 Wounded and Missing in action at Givenchy Western Front.
Died 22 December 1914
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Second Lieutenant Roger Assheton Young. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 22 December 1914 Western Front
Died 22 December 1914
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Lieutenant Henry Francis Heatly. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, attached to the 2nd Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 22 February 1915, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 22 February 1915
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Lieutenant James William Nugent Gordon. Unit: 5th Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Death: 22 February 1915, Neuve Chapelle, Western Front.
Died 22 February 1915
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Lieutenant John Edward Guy Brown. Unit: 2nd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 22 February 1915 Hill 60 near Zillebeke Western Front.
Died 22 February 1915
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THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1915
22 February 1915
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THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1915
22 February 1915
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THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1915
22 February 1915
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THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1915
22 February 1915
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THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1915
22 February 1915
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THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1915
22 February 1915
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THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1915
22 February 1915
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Lieutenant (Temporary) Kenneth Musgrave. Unit: 6th Service Battalion, The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, attached to 172nd Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 22 March 1915 Western Front age at death 22
Died 22 March 1915
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Mrs Edith Simpson, Territorial Force Nursing Service. Died from overwork 22 March 1915.
Died 22 March 1915
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Mrs Edith Simpson, Territorial Force Nursing Service. Died from overwork 22 March 1915.
Died 22 March 1915
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THE BRITISH RED CROSS IN OCCUPIED BELGIUM, 1914-1918
22 March 1915
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BRITISH OFFICIAL PANORAMAS OF THE WESTERN FRONT 1914 - 1918
22 April 1915
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Captain Henry Atholl Charles Wallace was born in 1879. He served in the Boer War, receiving the King's South Africa Medal and the accompanying clasps. He enlisted into the Canadian Expeditionary Force in August 1914 and went to France in February 1915.
Died 22 April 1915
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Captain Richard Steacie. Unit: 14th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Royal Montreal Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force.. Death: 22 April 1915 Killed in action at St. Julien Western Front
Died 22 April 1915
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Captain Sydney Robert Sandeman. Unit: 1st/2nd London Heavy Battery, Heavy Reserve Artillery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 22 April 1915 Wounded near St Julien – Ypres, missing Western Front
Died 22 April 1915
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Lance Corporal Herbert de Beaux Powel 22908. Unit: No 2 Company, 2nd Battalion, Eastern Ontario Regiment, 1st Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 22 April 1915 Missing Western Front
Died 22 April 1915
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Lieutenant Albert Ransome Ball. Unit: A Company, 10th Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 1st Canadian Contingent, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 22 April 1915 to 23 April 1915 St Julien Western Front
Died 22 April 1915
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Lieutenant Andrew Leslie Bell. Unit: 10th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment). Death: 22 April 1915 Western Front
Died 22 April 1915
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Lieutenant Guy Melfort Drummond. Unit: 13th Battalion, Royal Highlanders of Canada, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 22 April 1915 Western Front.
Died 22 April 1915
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Private Alfred Lacelle 8560. Unit: 2nd Battalion, 1st Canadian Contingent. Death: 22 April 1915 Western Front
Died 22 April 1915
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Private Arthur Carl Plet 8246. Unit: C Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 22 April 1915 Missing Western Front
Died 22 April 1915
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Private Benjamin Niely Reid 7896. Unit: 2nd Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Canadian Contingent, 1st Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 22 April 1915 to 24 April 1915 Wounded and Missing in action on the road to St.Julien Western Front
Died 22 April 1915
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Private Hector O. Fillion 7852. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Eastern Ontario Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Canadian Contingent, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 22 April 1915, Langemarck, Western Front.
Died 22 April 1915
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Private John Cyril Calvert 27402. Unit: 13th Battalion, 5th Royal Highlanders of Canada, 3rd Brigade, 1st Canadian Contingent, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 22 April 1915 to 25 April 1915 Missing in action at Ypres Western Front
Died 22 April 1915
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Private John Niel McPhee 8479. Unit: H Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Canadian Contingent. Death: 22 April 1915 Western Front
Died 22 April 1915
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Private Percy William Crawley 7843. Unit: 5th Platoon, No. 2 Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Brigade, 1st Canadian Contingent. Death: 22 April 1915 Missing in action at StJulien Western Front. Son of Alfred and Mary Ann Crawley, of Ottawa.
Died 22 April 1915
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Second Lieutenant John Roger Wallace. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Death: 22 April 1915 Killed in Action near Ypres Western Front
Died 22 April 1915
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Sergeant Hugh Howard Lindsay 8174. Unit: F Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Brigade, 1st Canadian Contingent. Death: 22 April 1915 Wounded and Missing Langemark Western Front
Died 22 April 1915
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Sergeant John Henry Thomson 24085. Unit: 1st Company, 5th Royal Highlanders of Canada, 13th Battalion, 1st Canadian Contingent (Quebec Regiment). Death: 22 April 1915 Wounded and Missing in action at St Julien Western Front
Died 22 April 1915
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Captain Hugh Richard Augustin Whytehead MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, 6th Gurkha Rifles. Death: 22 May 1915 Killed in Action at Gurkha Bluff recapturing a trench. Gallipoli
Died 22 May 1915
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Captain Ian Henry Baillie. Unit: 4th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. Death: 22 May 1915 Of wounds Rouen Western Front
Died 22 May 1915
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DESTRUCTION ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
22 May 1915
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Lieutenant (Temporary) William Millar Warne. Unit: 7th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 22 May 1915 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 22 May 1915
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Lieutenant Arthur Alexander Heyland. Unit: 2nd Battalion, 5th Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force), attached to the 2nd Battalion, 1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles (Malaun Regiment), Indian Army. Death: 22 May 1915, lilled in action, Western Front. Commemora
Died 22 May 1915
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Lieutenant Edmund John Macrory Robertson MID. Unit: 70th Battery, 34th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 22 May 1915 Festubert Western Front
Died 22 May 1915
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