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THE US NAVY PRIOR TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR
23 October 1913
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ROYAL FLYING CORPS PRIOR TO FIRST WORLD WAR
23 March 1914
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Captain Frederick Forster. Unit: 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 23 August 1914, Mons, Western Front.
Died 23 August 1914
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Captain Jonathan Edward Knowles. Unit: 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 23 August 1914 Western Front.
Died 23 August 1914
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Captain Kenneth James Roy MID. Unit: 4th Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment). Death: 23 August 1914 Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Captain Oswald Bethell Walker. Unit: 15th Battalion, (The Kings) Hussars. Death: 23 August 1914 Killed in Action during the retreat from Mons. Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Captain Walter Richard Augustus Aston Dawes. Unit: A Company, 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 23 August 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Captain Walton Mellor. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. Death: 23 August 1914 Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Corporal A Rogers L/7281. Unit: D Company, 1st Battalion, Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 23 August 1914 near Mons Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Lieutenant Everard Cecil Smith. Unit: 4th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Death: 23 August 1914 Killed at Nimy near Mons Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Lieutenant Harold Martin Soames. Unit: 20th Hussars. Death: 23 August 1914 Killed while on reconnaissance duty near Binche, in Belgium Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Lieutenant Jervis Moore Tylee. Unit: 15th Hussars. Death: 23 August 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Lieutenant John Rothes Marlow Wilkinson. Unit: 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 23 August 1914 Approximate date. Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Lieutenant Kenneth Parnell Henstock. Unit: 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Death: 23 August 1914, killed in action at Mons, Western Front.
Died 23 August 1914
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Lieutenant Maurice James Dease VC. Unit: Machine Gun Officer, 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 23 August 1914 Died of wounds at Nimy near Mons Western Front.
Died 23 August 1914
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Major Charles Stewart Holland. Unit: 120th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 23 August 1914, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 23 August 1914
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Major John Southern Maidlow. Unit: Commanding 49th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 23 August 1914 Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Major William Henry Abell. Unit: 4th Battalion, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment). Death: 23 August 1914 Obourg Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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MAPS OF THE WESTERN FRONT
23 August 1914
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Second Lieutenant John Pepys. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Death: 23 August 1914 Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Second Lieutenant Joseph Frederick Mead. Unit: 4th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Death: 23 August 1914 Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Second Lieutenant Neville Lascelles Ward. Unit: 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Death: 23 August 1914 Killed in Action leading a charge at Boussy near Mons Western Front
Died 23 August 1914
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Captain Arthur Kyrke-Smith. Unit: 1st Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 23 September 1914 wounded on 20 September 1914 Western Front.
Died 23 September 1914
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Captain Greville Hubert Robins Blount. Unit: Royal Field Artillery. Death: 23 September 1914 Of wounds. Son of the late Maj. Blount (R.A.) (killed in South African War).
Died 23 September 1914
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Captain Peter Benson Maxwell. Unit: 1st Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 35th Sikhs. Death: 23 September 1914 Western Front
Died 23 September 1914
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Captain Ralph Eyre Tanner. Unit: CCompany, 1st Battalion, The Kings (Liverpool Regiment). Death: 23 September 1914 Died of wounds received on the 14 September 1914. Western Front
Died 23 September 1914
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Second Lieutenant Thomas Reginald Bottomley. Unit: C Company, 1st Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 23 September 1914 Vendresse Western Front
Died 23 September 1914
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Second Lieutenant William Gilbert Houldsworth. Unit: 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 23 September 1914, died of wounds received on 13 September 1914 at Vendresse, Western Front.
Died 23 September 1914
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Captain Ernest Cyril Miller. Unit: 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion, attached B Company, 1st Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.. Death: 23 October 1914 In action at Bixschoote Western Front
Died 23 October 1914
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Captain Frank Fairlie. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Death: 23 October 1914 Gheluvelt Western Front
Died 23 October 1914
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Captain Lawrence Peel. Unit: Yorkshire Regiment, Commanding Cyclist Company, 7th Division. Death: 23 October 1914 Western Front
Died 23 October 1914
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Captain Michael Joseph Lochrin. Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps.. Death: 23 October 1914 Western Front
Died 23 October 1914
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Captain Walter Russell Russell. Unit: 2nd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Death: 23 October 1914 At Pilken Near Ypres Western Front
Died 23 October 1914
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Lieutenant Charles Lindsay Claude Bowes-Lyon. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Death: 23 October 1914 near Boesinghe Western Front
Died 23 October 1914
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Lieutenant Douglas Blackwood Landale. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consorts Own). Death: 23 October 1914 Western Front
Died 23 October 1914
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Lieutenant Frederick Robert Pollock. Unit: 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 23 October 1914 Western Front
Died 23 October 1914
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Lieutenant Frederick William Joseph Macdonald Miller. Unit: 1st (or 2nd) Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 23 October 1914 Western Front
Died 23 October 1914
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Lieutenant Hugh Thomas Ackland-Allen. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Death: 23 October 1914 Zonnebeke Western Front
Died 23 October 1914
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Lieutenant Ivan Boyd Sprot. Unit: 1st Battalion, (The Queen’s Own) Cameron Highlanders. Death: 23 October 1914 Killed in action near Langemarck in Belgium Western Front
Died 23 October 1914
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Major George Emil Bolster. Unit: 106th Battery, 22nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 23 October 1914 Ypres Western Front
Died 23 October 1914
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Private Frederick Tibbles L/7165. Unit: 1st Battalion, East Kent Regiment. Death: 23 October 1914 Western Front
Died 23 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Basil John Harrison Scott MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 23 October 1914 Killed in Battle of Ypres near Pilkem, Belgium Western Front
Died 23 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant David Ive. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 23 October 1914 Western Front.
Died 23 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Dudley Luis de Tavora Fernandes MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 23 October 1914, Western Front.
Died 23 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Eric Laurence Arthur Hart Burges. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 23 October 1914 Reutel Western Front
Died 23 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant George Drennan Cron Wright. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Death: 23 October 1914 Killed in Action near Ypres. Western Front
Died 23 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Gerald Cecil Kingsley. Unit: 1st Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Death: 23 October 1914 Western Front.
Died 23 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Harold Edwin Hippisley. Unit: 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 23 October 1914, killed in action at Langemarck, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 23 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Maurice Dingwall Williams. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 23 October 1914 Wounded and missing
Died 23 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Norman Arthur Henry Somerset. Unit: 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 23 October 1914 Killed in action near Kruiseik when taking a message during the earlier part of the first Battle of Ypres. Western Front
Died 23 October 1914
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THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1915
23 October 1914
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THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1915
23 October 1914
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Captain Alexander Masters. Unit: Adjutant, 34th Sikh Pioneers, Indian Army. Death: 23 November 1914 Western Front
Died 23 November 1914
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Captain Arthur Hugh Percy Rose. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment. Death: 23 November 1914 Near Armentieres Western Front
Died 23 November 1914
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Captain Gerald Henry Walter Mortimer. Unit: 10th Jats, Indian Army, attached to 9th Bhopal Infantry. Death: 23 November 1914 At Festubert Western Front
Died 23 November 1914
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Captain Hugh Laurents Chenevix Baldwin. Unit: 58th Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force), Indian Army. Death: 23 November 1914 Festubert Western Front
Died 23 November 1914
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Captain James Fergus Mackain MID. Unit: 34th Sikh Pioneers, Indian Army. Death: 23 November 1914 Western Front
Died 23 November 1914
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Captain Kanwar Indarjit Singh MC MRCP. Unit: Indian Medical Service, attached to 57th Wilde’s Rifles (Frontier Force). Death: 23 November 1914 Killed at Festubert while attending wounded in a house that was completely destroyed by shells. Western Front
Died 23 November 1914
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Lieutenant Colonel Claude Cambridge Fenner MID. Unit: Commanding 59th Scinde Rifles (Frontier Force), Indian Army. Death: 23 November 1914, Western Front.
Died 23 November 1914
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Lieutenant Colonel George Henry Fitzmaurice Kelly. Unit: 34th Sikh Pioneers, Indian Army. Death: 23 November 1914 Western Front.
Died 23 November 1914
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Lieutenant Cyril Roland Eyre Miller. Unit: 4th Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 23 November 1914 Western Front
Died 23 November 1914
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Lieutenant Duncan Stuart Ross MacPherson. Unit: 7th Gurkha Rifles. Death: 23 November 1914 Western Front
Died 23 November 1914
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Lieutenant Lionel Gaisford. Unit: 58th Vaughan's Rifles, Frontier Force, Indian Army. Death: 23 November 1914 La Bassee Western Front
Died 23 November 1914
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Lieutenant Ralph Alec Reilly. Unit: 31st Punjabis, attached to 58th Vaughans Rifles (Frontier Force), Indian Army. Death: 23 November 1914 La Bassee Western Front
Died 23 November 1914
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Major Edwin Bedford Steel BA MB BChDub. Unit: Assistant Director Medical Services, First Cavalry Division, Royal Army Medical Corps. Death: 23 November 1914 Wounded by a shell at La Clytte died at Bailleul Clearing Hospital that same day. Western Front
Died 23 November 1914
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Major Pandit Piaraylal Lal-Atal. Unit: Indian Medical Service. Death: 23 November 1914 Western Front
Died 23 November 1914
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Miss Ethel Fearnley, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Died on duty in France 23 November 1914.
Died 23 November 1914
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Miss Ethel Fearnley, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. Died on duty in France 23 November 1914.
Died 23 November 1914
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Captain Ralph George Griffiths Robson (or Cumine-Robson). Unit: Corps of Indian Miners and Sappers, attached to 3rd Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 23 December 1914 Killed in action near Neuve Chapelle Western Front
Died 23 December 1914
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Lieutenant Colonel Henry Anderson Lempriere DSO. Unit: 7th Battalion (Princess Royals) Dragoon Guards. Death: 23 December 1914
Died 23 December 1914
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Lieutenant George Lewis Sparrow. Unit: 3rd Battalion, South Wales Borderers, attached to 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers. Death: 23 December 1914 Died of wounds received on 20 December1914 Western Front
Died 23 December 1914
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Lieutenant Ian Maclean Macandrew MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. Death: 23 December 1914 Festubert Western Front
Died 23 December 1914
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Second Lieutenant (Temporary Lieutenant) Douglas Holme Wiggin. Unit: 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 23 December 1914 Died of wounds. Wounded near Festubert on 21 December. Western Front
Died 23 December 1914
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Lieutenant John Algernon Leventhorpe. Unit: Royal Engineers. Death: 23 January 1915, Western Front.
Died 23 January 1915
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Lieutenant Robert Bradford Flint DSO. Unit: 59th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 23 January 1915, Wulvergheim, Western Front.
Died 23 January 1915
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Major (Temporary Lieutenant Colonel) George Julian Ryan DSO. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 23 January 1915 Western Front
Died 23 January 1915
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THE GERMAN NAVY IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
23 January 1915
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BRITISH OFFICIAL PANORAMAS OF THE WESTERN FRONT 1914 - 1918
23 February 1915
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BRITISH OFFICIAL PANORAMAS OF THE WESTERN FRONT 1914 - 1918
23 February 1915
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BRITISH OFFICIAL PANORAMAS OF THE WESTERN FRONT 1914 - 1918
23 February 1915
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BRITISH OFFICIAL PANORAMAS OF THE WESTERN FRONT 1914 - 1918
23 February 1915
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BRITISH OFFICIAL PANORAMAS OF THE WESTERN FRONT 1914 - 1918
23 February 1915
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BRITISH OFFICIAL PANORAMAS OF THE WESTERN FRONT 1914 - 1918
23 February 1915
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BRITISH OFFICIAL PANORAMAS OF THE WESTERN FRONT 1914 - 1918
23 February 1915
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BRITISH OFFICIAL PANORAMAS OF THE WESTERN FRONT 1914 - 1918
23 February 1915
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BRITISH OFFICIAL PANORAMAS OF THE WESTERN FRONT 1914 - 1918
23 February 1915
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Captain E F Wakeford. Unit: 5th or 6th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Death: 23 February 1915 Died Western Front
Died 23 February 1915
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Captain Norman Fraser DSO. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. Death: 23 February 1915, Western Front.
Died 23 February 1915
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Lieutenant Samuel Tudor Barr. Unit: 3rd (King's Own) Hussars, attached to 20th Hussars. Death: 23 February 1915 Rouen Western Front
Died 23 February 1915
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Second Lieutenant Kenneth Frost. Unit: 1st Battalion, the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 23 February 1915, Zillebeke, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Died 23 February 1915
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Augusta Marshall, Scottish Women's Hospitals. Died of typhus in Serbia 23 April 1915.
Died 23 April 1915
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Captain Abdy Fellowes Anderson. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), attached to 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. Death: 23 April 1915 Western Front
Died 23 April 1915
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Captain Arthur Percival Birchall. Unit: Royal Fusiliers, attached to 4th Battalion, Central Ontario Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force as a Commanding Officer (rank of Lieutenant Colonel). Death: 23 April 1915 near Ypres Western Front
Died 23 April 1915
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Captain Charles Ernest William Bland DSO. Unit: 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. Death: 23 April 1915 Western Front.
Died 23 April 1915
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Captain Edwin Scott Bamford. Unit: Adjutant, 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. Death: 23 April 1915 Of wounds Ypres Western Front
Died 23 April 1915
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Captain George Crowther Ryerson. Unit: 3rd Battalion (Home Regiment), Royal Grenadiers, Canadian Infantry. Death: 23 April 1915 near Ypres Western Front
Died 23 April 1915
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Captain Hamilton Maxwell Fleming. Unit: 16th Battalion, Canadian Scottish (72nd Seaforth Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 23 April 1915, Ypres, Western Front.
Died 23 April 1915
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Captain Kenrick Talbot Woodmass MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 23 April 1915 Killed in Action near Ypres. Western Front
Died 23 April 1915
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Captain Lionel Reginald Everard West. Unit: 1st/8th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles). Death: 23 April 1915 Killed in Action by a shell-burst in a dug-out at Givenchy Western Front
Died 23 April 1915
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Captain Walter Leslie Lockhart Gordon. Unit: 9th Mississauga Horse, attached to the 2nd Battalion, 1st Canadian Contingent (Eastern Ontario Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force. Death: 23 April 1915, Langemarck, Western Front. Commemorated on the Menin
Died 23 April 1915
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