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THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, JULY-NOVEMBER 1916
14 July 1916
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THE INDIAN ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
14 July 1916
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Captain Walter Joel Ralphs. Unit: 12th Battery, Royal Field Artillery and Shanghai Light Horse Regiment. Death: 15 July 1916 Western Front
Died 15 July 1916
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Lieutenant Charles Frederick Wells Wait. Unit: 10th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Death: 15 July 1916, killed in action, Somme, Western Front.
Died 15 July 1916
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Private (Signaller) Robert Dalrymple 2515/330601. Unit: 9th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Highlanders). Death: 15 July 1916, killed in action, Somme, Western Front.
Died 15 July 1916
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Private Alexander Black 4552/331725. Unit: "B" Company, 9th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Highlanders). Death: 15 July 1916, High Wood, Somme, Western Front.
Died 15 July 1916
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Private Alexander William Joss 3049/330829. Unit: 9th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Highlanders). Death: 15 July 1916, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 15 July 1916
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Private Daniel Jones 16115. Unit: 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment. Death: 15 July 1916, missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 15 July 1916
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Private George Cunningham 4037/331327. Unit: 9th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Highlanders). Death: 15 July 1916, wounded and missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 15 July 1916
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Private James Harvey 4797/331900. Unit: 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 15 July 1916, missing in action at High Wood, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 15 July 1916
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Private John Henry Baker 3682. Unit: 58th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 15 July 1916
Died 15 July 1916
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Private John Scott 3099/330853. Unit: 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 15 July 1916 Missing
Died 15 July 1916
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Private Kenneth Alexander MacRae 2130/330421. Unit: 16th Platoon, 4th Company, 9th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Highlanders). Death: 15 July 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 15 July 1916
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Private Kenneth James Pound STK/799. Unit: 9th Platoon, C Company, 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 15 July 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 15 July 1916
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Private William J. Barrie 4386/331593. Unit: "A" Company, 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 15 July 1916, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 15 July 1916
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Private William Lochhead. Unit: 58th Battalion, 15th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 15 July 1916, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 15 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant Arthur Percival Sargeant. Unit: 3rd Platoon, A Company, 9th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment. Death: 15 July 1916 Wounded and missing Western Front.
Died 15 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant Richard Dermott Atkinson. Unit: "A" Company, 16 Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 15 July 1916, High Wood, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 15 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant William Kelly Carmichael Ogg. Unit: 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 15 July 1916, missing, aged 18, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 15 July 1916
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Corporal V W Todman 19529. Unit: 26th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Death: 16 July 1916 Western Front
Died 16 July 1916
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Journée Patriotique [Patriotic Day]
16 July 1916
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Lieutenant Thomas Eyre Barton. Unit: 14th Battalion, attached to the 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 16 July 1916, Ovillers, Somme, Western Front.
Died 16 July 1916
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Private Joseph Henry Killey 20663. Unit: 13th Battalion, Royal Scots. Death: 16 July 1916, Western Front.
Died 16 July 1916
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THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT 1914-1918
16 July 1916
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THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, JULY-NOVEMBER 1916
16 July 1916
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Captain Guy Dickins. Unit: 13th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 17 July 1916, killed in action, Somme, Western Front.
Died 17 July 1916
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Private George William Binns 22114. Unit: 6th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. Death: 17 July 1916, La Bassee, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 17 July 1916
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Private Peter Eadington Moir 20048. Unit: 4th Platoon, "A" Company, 6th Battalion, Kingâ€™s Own Scottish Borderers. Death: 17 July 1916, Delville Wood, Somme, Western Front.
Died 17 July 1916
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Private Sidney H Smith 2720/265551. Unit: 1st/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 17 July 1916 Missing
Died 17 July 1916
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THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, JULY-NOVEMBER 1916
17 July 1916
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Lance Corporal Linley of B Company was reported missing on 18 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 18 July 1916
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Lance Sergeant Claude Fitzgerald Burton 1916. Unit: D Company, 1st Regiment, South African Infantry. Death: 18 July 1916.
Died 18 July 1916
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Lance Sergeant Claude Fitzgerald S. Burton 1916. Unit: 4th Platoon, "A" Company, 1st Regiment, South African Infantry; previously with the Cape Peninsula Rifles. Death: 18 July 1916, missing in action at Delville Wood, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated o
Died 18 July 1916
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Lt Tlndal was reported wounded and missing, aged 19, at Delville Wood on 18 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 18 July 1916
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Private Albert G. Mitchell S/10039. Unit: Grenade Section, 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 18 July 1916, missing, Western Front.
Died 18 July 1916
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Private Eden Lashley Hall 4105. Unit: 6th Platoon, "B" Company, 1st Regiment, South African Infantry. Death: 18 July 1916, missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 18 July 1916
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Private George Scott S/9033. Unit: 8th Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Death: 18 July 1916 Missing at Delville Wood Western Front
Died 18 July 1916
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Private Guy Alexander Harrison 83. Unit: 11th Platoon, "C" Company, 1st Regiment, South African Infantry. Death: 18 July 1916, missing in action on 17 July 1916 at Delville Wood, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 18 July 1916
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Private Ivor Llewellyn Martin 4334. Unit: 6th Platoon, "B" Company, 1st Regiment, South African Infantry, South African Overseas Expeditionary Force. Death: 18 July 1916, missing, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 18 July 1916
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Private James Robertson S/13467. Unit: 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 18 July 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 18 July 1916
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Private John Henderson S/13992. Unit: 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 18 July 1916, missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 18 July 1916
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Private Robert Harper 3/6033. Unit: 1st Platoon, "A" Company, 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 18 July 1916, wounded and missing in action, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 18 July 1916
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Private William Adams Stephen S/13926. Unit: 8th Platoon, B Company, 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Death: 18 July 1916 MIA at Mametz Wood Western Front
Died 18 July 1916
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Private William McGregor 3559. Unit: "D" Company, 1st Regiment, South African Infantry, South African Overseas Expeditionary Force. Death: 18 July 1916, Delville Wood, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 18 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant David Balfour Patrick. Unit: 11th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, attached to the 28th Company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Death: 18 July 1916, missing, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 18 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant Eric Milroy. Unit: 8th Battalion, Black Watch, Machine Gun Officer. Death: 18 July 1916, missing near Delville Wood, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 18 July 1916
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
19 July 1916
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Captain Aubrey Ewan Coulton. Unit: 6th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, attached to 2nd/6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 19 July 1916 Missing in action believed Killed in action at Laventie Western Front
Died 19 July 1916
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Corporal John Beresford Bryson 3494. Unit: 53rd Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916.
Died 19 July 1916
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Corporal Sidney Frank William Harold Green 3036. Unit: 59th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916, Western Front.
Died 19 July 1916
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Driver Albert Cleal 79368. Unit: 66th and/or 231st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 19 July 1916, Mesopotamia.
Died 19 July 1916
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Lance Corporal John Ralph Wright 2481. Unit: A Company, 60th Battalion, 15th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916 Killed in Action near Armentieres Western Front
Died 19 July 1916
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Lance Corporal Reuben Wright 4635. Unit: A Company, 60th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916 Killed in Action at Fromelles Western Front
Died 19 July 1916
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Private Albert Edward Lowe 2869. Unit: 14th Company, Australian Machine Gun Corps, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916, Fleurbaix, Western Front.
Died 19 July 1916
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Private Alfred Victor Momplhait 3282. Unit: 10th Battalion, attached to the "B" Company, 32nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916, Western Front.
Died 19 July 1916
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Private Arthur Montague Smyth 4239. Unit: D Company, 54th Battalion, 14th Infantry Brigade, 5th Division, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916 Killed in action in France Western Front
Died 19 July 1916
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Private Benjamin James Barrett 4431. Unit: 60th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916, Western Front.
Died 19 July 1916
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Private Charles Clapham Gregory. Unit: Machine Gun Section, "C" Company, 59th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916, Armentieres, Western Front.
Died 19 July 1916
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Private Edward Thomas Cox 2211. Unit: A Company, 59th Battalion, 15th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916 Killed in action Western Front
Died 19 July 1916
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Private Ernest W Ashton 4729. Unit: B Company, 53rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916 Missing in action Western Front
Died 19 July 1916
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Private Henry Alfred Cressy 4179. Unit: B Company, 54th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916 to 20 July 1916 Killed in action near Fromelles Western Front
Died 19 July 1916
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Private James Abel Reed 26654. Unit: 5th Platoon, B Company, 14th Battalion, Berkshire Regiment.. Death: 19 July 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 19 July 1916
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Private James Edward Spooner 3941. Unit: 59th or 60th Battalion, late 7th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916 Missing in action Western Front
Died 19 July 1916
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Private James Fitzgibbon Daly 4643. Unit: "C" Company, 58th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916, probably killed in action at Pozieres, Somme, aged 17, Western Front.
Died 19 July 1916
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Private Japhet Money Fletcher 1704. Unit: 59th Battalion, 15th Brigade, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916, Pozieres, Somme, Western Front.
Died 19 July 1916
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Private John Hubert Armstrong 3681. Unit: "D" Company, 60th Battalion, 15th Brigade, 5th Division, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916, Western Front.
Died 19 July 1916
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Private Joseph Brownridge 1843. Unit: 5th Battalion, attached to 59th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916 Missing in action Western Front
Died 19 July 1916
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Private Lawrence Harriott 4509. Unit: "A" Company, 54th Battaliion, 14th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916 to 20 July 1916, killed in action at Fleusbaix, Western Front.
Died 19 July 1916
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Private Matthew Thomas Forrest 3676. Unit: "C" Company, 60th Battalion, 15th Brigade, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916, Pozieres, Somme, Western Front.
Died 19 July 1916
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Private Percy Colston Horatio Caines 4748. Unit: A Company, 59th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916 Killed in action at Fleurbeaux Western Front
Died 19 July 1916
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Private Richard David Davies 4904. Unit: 18th Battalion, attached to the "A" Company, 53rd Battalion, 14th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916, killed in action at Mouquet Farm, Pozieres, Somme, Western Front.
Died 19 July 1916
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Private Stanley Reuben Merten 573. Unit: "B" Company, 29th Battalion, 8th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916, Western Front.
Died 19 July 1916
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Private Thomas Edward Parker 3940. Unit: "A" Company, 2nd/1st (Bucks) Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Death: 19 July 1916, missing, Western Front. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
Died 19 July 1916
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Private William Pietrel Donohue 3290. Unit: D Company, 60th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916 Killed in action at Fleurbaix Western Front
Died 19 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant (previously Staff Sergeant) Henry John (Roy) Hall. Unit: 54th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916, killed in action at Fleurbaix, Western Front.
Died 19 July 1916
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Second Lieutenant Edward Handfield Anderson. Unit: 57th Battalion, 15th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 July 1916 Fleurbaix, France Western Front
Died 19 July 1916
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