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THE SECOND BOER WAR, 1899-1902
27 February 1900
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AMERICAN MILITARY AIRCRAFT PRE-1914
27 July 1909
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AVIATION IN BRITAIN BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 September 1909
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LORD HORATIO KITCHENER
27 July 1914
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Captain George Norman Simms MVO. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Killed at Noyon Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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Lieutenant Alexander Patrick Francis Lyon. Unit: 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 27 August 1914 At Bertry Western front
Died 27 August 1914
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Lieutenant Challoner Francis Trevor Chute. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Killed in action Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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Lieutenant Charles Frederick Phayre. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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Lieutenant Frederick Ernest Styles. Unit: 2nd Battalion (Special Reserve), Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Killed in action at Etreux Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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Lieutenant Robert Merlin Graham Aytoun MID. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Death: 27 August 1914
Died 27 August 1914
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Lieutenant Roger Owen Birkbeck Wakefield. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Wounded 26 August 1914 at Coudry, died at the temporary hospital there. Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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Lieutenant William Malcolm Chisholm. Unit: 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Death: 27 August 1914 Died of wounds at Ligny Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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Major Paul Alfred Charrier. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Killed in action near Etreux Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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Major Stuart Hamilton Rickman MID twice. Unit: 2nd Battalion, attached to and commanding 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consorts Own). Death: 27 August 1914 died of wounds in Cambrai hospital Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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MAPS OF THE WESTERN FRONT
27 August 1914
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Second Lieutenant Carol Edward Vere Awdry. Unit: C Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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Second Lieutenant James Cyril Baptist Crozier. Unit: B Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Death: 27 August 1914 Killed in action near Etreux Western Front
Died 27 August 1914
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Lieutenant Arthur Clegg Fanshawe Royle. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Prince of Walesâ€™s (North Staffordshire Regiment). Death: 27 September 1914 Died from wounds received at Battle of the Aisne on 22 Sep Western Front
Died 27 September 1914
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THE CANADIAN EXPEDITIIONARY FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1914-1918
27 September 1914
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THE CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1914-1918
27 September 1914
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THE CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE IN BRITIAN, 1914-1918
27 September 1914
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BRITISH BATTLESHIPS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 October 1914
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BRITISH SHIPS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 October 1914
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Captain Alan Barnsley. Unit: 4th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, attached to 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: Between 25 and 27 October 1914 Western Front
Died 27 October 1914
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Captain Frederick William Stoddart Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Duke of Edinburghâ€™s (Wiltshire Regiment). Death: 27 October 1914 Killed in action at Neuve Chapelle Western Front
Died 27 October 1914
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Captain George Bruce Legard. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Queenâ€™s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 27 October 1914 Near Neuve Chapelle Western Front
Died 27 October 1914
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Captain George Henry Vaughan-Sawyer. Unit: 34th Sikh Pioneers, formerly 23rd Sikh Pioneers. Death: 27 October 1914 Western Front
Died 27 October 1914
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Captain John Mounsey Lambert. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 27 October 1914 At Neuve Chapelle Western Front
Died 27 October 1914
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Captain Walter Neave Wells. Unit: 3rd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), attached to 1st Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 27 October 1914 Killed in Action while leading his Company. Western Front
Died 27 October 1914
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Lieutenant (now Captain) Edward Spread Mulcahy Morgan. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 27 October 1914
Died 27 October 1914
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Lieutenant Claude McCaul Alston. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Death: 27 October 1914 Ypres Western Front
Died 27 October 1914
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Lieutenant D. T. F. Fitzpatrick. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to the 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 27 October 1914, Western Front.
Died 27 October 1914
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Lieutenant Edmund Swetenham. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Death: 27 October 1914 Killed in action shot by a sniper while in the trenches at Rue de Bois near Armentieres Western Front
Died 27 October 1914
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Lieutenant Francis Edward Robinson. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Death: 27 October 1914 Becelaere Passchendale Road Western Front
Died 27 October 1914
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Lieutenant Gilchrist Nevill Ogilvy. Unit: 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 27 October 1914 Western Front
Died 27 October 1914
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Lieutenant Prince Maurice Victor Donald Battenberg KCVO MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 27 October 1914 Of wounds Western Front
Died 27 October 1914
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Lieutenant Victor Harriott Hardy. Unit: 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, attached to the 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 27 October 1914, killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, Western Front. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.
Died 27 October 1914
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Major Hugh Joseph Fraser MVO. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 27 October 1914, Ypres, Western Front.
Died 27 October 1914
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Major Matthew Perceval Buckle DSO MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Death: 27 October 1914 Neuve Chapelle Western Front
Died 27 October 1914
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Private John J Middleton 8499. Unit: D Company, 1st Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 27 October 1914 Missing Western Front
Died 27 October 1914
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Private William James Clarke 11182. Unit: 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 27 October 1914 Killed in action at Ypres Western Front
Died 27 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Eric Arthur Mitchell. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Prince of Walesâ€™s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment). Death: 27 October 1914 Neuve Chapelle Western Front
Died 27 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Percy Edgar Napier Howard. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. Death: 27 October 1914, missing in action, Le Pilly, Western Front. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.
Died 27 October 1914
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Second Lieutenant Robert Francis McLean Gee. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to the 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 27 October 1914, died of wounds at the Netley Hospital, Britain.
Died 27 October 1914
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THE BATTLE OF MESSINES, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1914
27 October 1914
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THE FIRST BATTLE OF YPRES, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1914
27 October 1914
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THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 October 1914
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THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
27 October 1914
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Bombardier Gilbert Mark James Gardner D/2421. Unit: 1st Division Ammunition Column, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 November 1914, aboard troopship SS Shropshire at sea, near North Africa.
Died 27 November 1914
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Captain Gordon Stewart Browne MID. Unit: Adjutant, 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Death: 27 November 1914 From wounds received 17 Nov, Ypres Western Front. Son of Henry J. Browne, of Grosvenor House, Faversham, Kent.
Died 27 November 1914
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Lieutenant Arthur Woodland Toms. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, attached to 2nd Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Death: 27 November 1914 Accidentally killed Western Front
Died 27 November 1914
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Major Launcelot St Vincent Rose. Unit: 55th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 27 November 1914 Western Front
Died 27 November 1914
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Second Lieutenant John Sturgess Eldred. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Leinster Regiment, attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 27 November 1914 from wounds Ypres Western Front.
Died 27 November 1914
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Soldiers' Life in the French Trenches
27 November 1914
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Captain Horace Falkland Herd. Unit: 3rd Battalion, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Death: 27 December 1914, killed in action at Festubert, Western Front.
Died 27 December 1914
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Captain Ralph Noel Phillips. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Death: 27 December 1914 Western Front
Died 27 December 1914
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Private William John Mason. Unit: Coldstream Guards. Death: 27 December 1914 Western Front
Died 27 December 1914
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Second Lieutenant Robert Hamilton Williamson. Unit: 118th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 27 December 1914 Western Front
Died 27 December 1914
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Lieutenant George Eric Guy Stacpoole. Unit: 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment.. Death: 27 January 1915 Killed in action in the trenches at St Eloi, Belgium. Western Front
Died 27 January 1915
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Second Lieutenant Ben Gerald Noel Watkin. Unit: 40th Battery, Special Reserve, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 27 January 1915 Wounded by shrapnel on 25 January 1915 at La Bassee, died in hospital at Bethune Western Front
Died 27 January 1915
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Second Lieutenant Harold Vernon Hutt. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Death: 27 January 1915 Killed in action at Cuinchy Western Front
Died 27 January 1915
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Captain Edward Mason Grantham. Unit: 3rd Reserve Battalion, attached to the 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Death: 27 February 1915, Ypres, Western Front.
Died 27 February 1915
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Second Lieutenant Oswald Griffith. Unit: 80th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, attached to the "B" Battery, 63rd Brigade, 12th (Eastern) Division. Death: 27 February 1915, Western Front.
Died 27 February 1915
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Martha Emily Jenkins, Merchant Marine. Drowned on active service 27 March 1915.
Died 27 March 1915
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Martha Emily Jenkins, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Drowned on active service 27 March 1915.
Died 27 March 1915
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Waiting to go overseas, Southampton
27 March 1915
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Captain Caryl Lermitte Boxall. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Death: 27 April 1915 Gallipoli Dardanelles
Died 27 April 1915
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Captain Charles Albert Bond. Unit: B Company, 11th Battalion Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 April 1915 Gallipoli Dardanelles
Died 27 April 1915
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Captain Charles Howard Elliot. Unit: 58th Vaughn's Rifles (Frontier Force), Indian Army. Death: 27 April 1915 Neuve Chapelle Western Front.
Died 27 April 1915
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Captain Charles Robert Edgar Saunders. Unit: 4th Battalion, (City of London), London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers). Death: 27 April 1915 Died of wounds received at Hazebrouck, Belgium. Western Front
Died 27 April 1915
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Captain Herbert Sutton Tarrant. Unit: 1st Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry. Death: 27 April 1915 Killed in action near Ypres, Western Front
Died 27 April 1915
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Captain John Russell Pound. Unit: 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, The Kingâ€™s (Shropshire Light Infantry). Death: 27 April 1915 Western Front
Died 27 April 1915
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Captain Lancelot Urquhart Unwin. Unit: 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Death: 27 April 1915 At Ypres Western Front
Died 27 April 1915
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Corporal Thomas George Roy Champion 679. Unit: 9th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 April 1915 Killed in action Gallipoli
Died 27 April 1915
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Harington, F. J., Lieutenant to Bisson, C (sic.), Mrs.
27 April 1915
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Lieutenant Arthur Henry Torres Mountain. Unit: 16th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 April 1915 Popeâ€™s Hill Dardanelles
Died 27 April 1915
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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Augustus Vivian MID. Unit: 15th Ludhiana Sikhs. Death: 27 April 1915 Western Front
Died 27 April 1915
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Lieutenant Rowland George Prichard. Unit: 3rd Reserve Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Death: 27 April 1915 Western Front
Died 27 April 1915
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Lieutenant Thomas Lindsay Bainbridge. Unit: 5th Battalion (Territorial), Northumberland Fusiliers. Death: 27 April 1915 France Western Front
Died 27 April 1915
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Lieutenant William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse VC. Unit: 2nd Squadron, No 1 Wing, Royal Flying Corps. Death: 27 April 1915 Died of wounds Western Front
Died 27 April 1915
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Major Bernard Maynard Lucas Brodhurst. Unit: 1st Battalion, 4th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army. Death: 27 April 1915 Ypres Western Front
Died 27 April 1915
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Major Francis Duncan Irvine. Unit: Brigade Major, 1st Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. An Exchange Officer from Royal Engineers; passed Staff College Royal Engineers. Death: 27 April 1915 Killed in action shot through the heart by a sniper Gal
Died 27 April 1915
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PHOTOGRAPHS RELATING TO THE SERVICE OF ALFRED HERBERT TRESHAM ANDREW AS A MEDICAL OFFICER WITH 88TH FIELD AMBULANCE (RAMC), 29TH DIVISION, DURING THE GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN, 1915.
27 April 1915
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Private Arthur Ernest Bolger 1338. Unit: 1st Company, 14th Battalion, 4th Brigade, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 April 1915 Gallipoli Private G G Bolger 1489. Unit: B Troop, C Squadron, 8th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Impe
Died 27 April 1915
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Private Arthur James Ledwidge 1358. Unit: 13th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 27 April 1915 Gallipoli Dardanelles
Died 27 April 1915
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