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Private James Gardner 241677, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 16 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private John Thomas Russell 1555, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 16 August 1916
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Private Leo Joseph Baxendale S/8023, Army Ordnance Corps
Died 16 August 1916
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Private Peter A. Andrievsky 457929, Canadian Infantry
Died 16 August 1916
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Private Reginald Daniel Jones 24479, South Wales Borderers
Died 16 August 1916
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Private Roy Charles Goman 5097. Unit: 4th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 16 August 1916, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 16 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Thomas Henry Warner 17470, East Surrey Regiment
Died 16 August 1916
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Private Thomas Smith 15665, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 16 August 1916
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Pte Neal of 13 Platoon, D Company, was reported missing during the Battle of the Somme on 16 August 1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 16 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Second Lieutenant Archibald Stanley Butler , Royal Flying Corps
Died 16 August 1916
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THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, JULY-NOVEMBER 1916
16 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Captain Douglas Edward Brodie , Cameron Highlanders
Died 17 August 1916
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Captain William Manstead Benton , Manchester Regiment
Died 17 August 1916
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Lance Corporal Harold Machin P/1255, Military Police Corps
Died 17 August 1916
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Private Andrew Duncan Hotchkies 4486. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 17 August 1916, missing in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 17 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Arthur Long 23497. Unit: 7th Battalion, Northamtonshire Regiment. Death: 17 August 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 17 August 1916
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Private Ebenezer Nicholls 6990, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 17 August 1916
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Private Frederick Thomas Purcell 16638, Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1916
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Private G A Lumby 27916. Unit: A Company, 12th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 17 August 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 17 August 1916
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Private George Alfred Wood 26069. Unit: 12th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Waless Own). Death: 17 August 1916 Missing in Action Western Front
Died 17 August 1916
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Private George Dennett Criddle 13193, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 17 August 1916
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Private John J Lewis DM2/164530, Army Service Corps
Died 17 August 1916
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Private John Munro S/18967, Cameron Highlanders
Died 17 August 1916
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Private Morris Gaunt 28032. Unit: "A" Company, 12th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own). Death: 17 August 1916, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 17 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Richard Mitchell SD/441, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 17 August 1916
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Private Thomas Henry Mumford 23058, Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1916
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Private William Reginald Staplehurst G/8708, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 17 August 1916
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Private Willie Henry Page 3196, Royal Sussex Regiment,
Died 17 August 1916
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Sapper James Edward Worthington 45607, Royal Engineers
Died 17 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant John Lambert Hopgood. Unit: 8th Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment. Death: 17 August 1916 Western Front
Died 17 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant John Lambert Hopgood. Unit: 8th Battalion, the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 17 August 1916, killed in action, Somme, Western Front.
Died 17 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Norman Archibald Chambers , Northamptonshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1916
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Stanley F Chippendale DCM. Unit: 52nd Battery, Australian Army. Death: 17 August 1916 Died of wounds Gallipoli
Died 17 August 1916
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THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
17 August 1916
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THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
17 August 1916
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THE GERMAN ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
17 August 1916
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Acting Serjeant Albert Bateman 16202, Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 18 August 1916
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Austria Sammeltag [Austria Collection Day]
18 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Brigadier General Archie Stewart Buckle , Royal Artillery
Died 18 August 1916
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Captain Bernard Ashworth James , Middlesex Regiment
Died 18 August 1916
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Captain Dane Baron Reed , Middlesex Regiment
Died 18 August 1916
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Corporal Arthur G Mason 2701, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 August 1916
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Geburtstagsfeier für Kaiser Franz Joseph
18 August 1916
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library

Gunner Edward Ainslie Norris 11/1646, New Zealand Field Artillery
Died 18 August 1916
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Hesdin type
18 August 1916
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Lance Corporal Frank Glover 19569, Liverpool Regiment
Died 18 August 1916
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Lieutenant Charles Fabian Saunders. Unit: C Company, 7th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Death: 18 August 1916 Western Front
Died 18 August 1916
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Lieutenant F Mackay. Unit: Cameron Highlanders. Death: 18 August 1916
Died 18 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Thomas Alfred Hooper. Unit: 5th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 18 August 1916, killed in action at Pozieres, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 18 August 1916
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Miss Enid M Kentish, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died August 1916 18 August 1916.
Died 18 August 1916
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Miss Enid M Kentish, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died August 1916 18 August 1916.
Died 18 August 1916
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Nurse Enid Margaret Kentish , British Red Cross
Died 18 August 1916
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Private (Cyclist) Herbert Jackson 1266/225306. Unit: C Company, 5th Battalion, attached to 8th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 18 August 1916 Western Front
Died 18 August 1916
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Private Albert E Brown S/5364, Rifle Brigade
Died 18 August 1916
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Private Alfred Anderson 21178, "4th. Bn." The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Died 18 August 1916
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Private Arthur Freer 21676, East Yorkshire Regiment
Died 18 August 1916
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Private Charles Arthus Levens. Unit: 5th Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces. Death: 18 August 1916
Died 18 August 1916
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Private Charles Edward White 25490, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 18 August 1916
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Private Charles Mulholland S/13300, Cameron Highlanders
Died 18 August 1916
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Private David Phillips 15489, Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment)
Died 18 August 1916
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Private Ernest Nathen Holmes Foulger 25155, Suffolk Regiment
Died 18 August 1916
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Private George James Cloudesley 30717, Worcestershire Regiment
Died 18 August 1916
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Private James Briggs 2225, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 18 August 1916
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Private John Alfred Allen 10542, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 18 August 1916
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Private Joseph Gandell 19059. Unit: 7th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Death: 18 August 1916, Guillemont, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 18 August 1916
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Private Richard William Abbott G/4189, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
Died 18 August 1916
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Private Thomas Gilbertson 2942, Corps of Hussars
Died 18 August 1916
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Private Walter Lichfield 3176, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 August 1916
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Private Walter Samuel Fry 19474, Welsh Regiment
Died 18 August 1916
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Private William Beasley GS/393, 6th Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 18 August 1916
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Private William Blease 19226, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 18 August 1916
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Private William Cameron S/10244. Unit: 8th Platoon, "B" Company, 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Death: 18 August 1916, Somme, Western Front.
Died 18 August 1916
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Private William Gilchrist S/10229. Unit: 5th Platoon, "B" Company, 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Death: 18 August 1916, Bois des Foureaux, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 18 August 1916
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Private William Giles Goldring S/11325, Gordon Highlanders
Died 18 August 1916
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Private William Hayes 18780, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 18 August 1916
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Pte Oliphant, who had transferred from 11 to 2 Battalion, was reported missing, aged 38, on 18 August 1916 at Longueval during the Battle of the Somme. He is buried at Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval.
Died 18 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Fitzmaurice Valentine Scoones. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). Death: 18 August 1916 Died in training with Black Watch United Kingdom
Died 18 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant George Francis Haydon. Unit: "C" Battery, 175th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Death: 18 August 1916, missing in action, Somme, Western Front.
Died 18 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant George Futvoye Marsden-Smedley. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 18 August 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 18 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant William Howe Bissley , Royal Berkshire Regiment
Died 18 August 1916
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Serjeant Alfred Bromley G/2158, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
Died 18 August 1916
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Serjeant George Stanley Smith 3/10169, Norfolk Regiment
Died 18 August 1916
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THE ALLIED ARMIES IN THE MACEDONIAN CAMPAIGN, 1915-1918
18 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Acting Corporal George Williams 10526, East Lancashire Regiment
Died 19 August 1916
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
19 August 1916
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
19 August 1916
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
19 August 1916
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
19 August 1916
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BRITISH LIGHT CRUISER FALMOUTH SINKING IN THE NORTH SEA AFTER BEING ATTACKED BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE.
19 August 1916
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Captain Frank Waker Harris. Unit: 5th Battalion, attached to the 57th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 August 1916, killed in action, Western Front.
Died 19 August 1916
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Corporal Herbert Townsing 3853, 4th Australian Pioneers
Died 19 August 1916
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Corporal Percy David Mansfield 4256. Unit: 7th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 August 1916 Western Front
Died 19 August 1916
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Hesdin, from the Scouts' room
19 August 1916
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Lieutenant Francis Blake Cameron , Cameron Highlanders
Died 19 August 1916
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Private Allan Edmund Betts 1810. Unit: 4th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 August 1916, Western Front.
Died 19 August 1916
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Private Cecil Vere Bynoe 10856, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 19 August 1916
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Private Charles Wood 18682, King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Died 19 August 1916
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Private Claude William Brown 2784. Unit: 6th Battalion, 2nd Brigade, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 August 1916, Pozieres, Somme, Western Front.
Died 19 August 1916
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Private Edgar Helliwell 16864, Royal Scots
Died 19 August 1916
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Private Edward Maldwyn Jones 37105, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 19 August 1916
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