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Private John Alfred Allen 10542, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 18 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

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
Imperial War Museum

Private Richard William Abbott G/4189, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
Died 18 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

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
Imperial War Museum

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
Imperial War Museum

Private William Giles Goldring S/11325, Gordon Highlanders
Died 18 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private William Hayes 18780, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 18 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

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
Imperial War Museum

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
Imperial War Museum

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
Imperial War Museum

Second Lieutenant George Futvoye Marsden-Smedley. Unit: 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Death: 18 August 1916 Missing Western Front
Died 18 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

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
Imperial War Museum

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
19 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
19 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
19 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

BRITISH LIGHT CRUISER FALMOUTH SINKING IN THE NORTH SEA AFTER BEING ATTACKED BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE.
19 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

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
Imperial War Museum

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
Imperial War Museum

Hesdin, from the Scouts' room
19 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

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
Imperial War Museum

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
Imperial War Museum

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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Private George Turner 6857, North Staffordshire Regiment
Died 19 August 1916
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Private Harry John Williams. Unit: 12th Battalion (late 7th Reinforcements to 26th Battalion), Australian Infantry. Death: 19 August 1916 Reported ‘Missing’. Officially reported killed Jul 1917 Western Front
Died 19 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private James Dorney 11032, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 19 August 1916
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Private Michael John Hogan 200324, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 19 August 1916
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Private Thomas Glyn Gough Williams 40044, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 19 August 1916
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Private Victor Steward Hope 3546A. Unit: 6th Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 August 1916, missing in action at Pozieres, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 19 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private William Davies 13300, South Wales Borderers
Died 19 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Sergeant William Wallace Campbell. Unit: 12th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 19 August 1916 to 22 August 1916, killed in action, Mouquet Farm, Somme, Western Front.
Died 19 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

The troopship KAROOLA about to embark from Melbourne, WW1
Taken 19 Aug 1916
Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Corporal Charles Alfred Brook G/4146, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Lance Sergeant George Newman 420097, Canadian Infantry
Died 20 August 1916
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Lance Serjeant William Fishlock 21350, Wiltshire Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Stephen Walley. Unit: 5th Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 20 August 1916 Killed in Action Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Geoffrey Stephen Walley. Unit: 5th Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Death: 20 August 1916 Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Albert Leggatt 8023, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
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Private Andrew Thomas Day 8/3889, Otago Infantry Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
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Private Arthur Smith 17832, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
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Private Cyril Barrand 17092, Leicestershire Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
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Private Ernest Ellis 5096, British West Indies Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
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Private Frederick James Stevens 22824, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Died 20 August 1916
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Private Frederick John Thompson 3959. Unit: 6th Battalion, Australian Expeditionary Force. Death: 20 August 1916 Died of wounds at 3 Casualty Clearing St ation Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private George Grant Geddes Angus 4127. Unit: D Company, 1st Pioneer Battalion, 1st Australian Division, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 20 August 1916 Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Norman John McLeod 3395. Unit: 14th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 20 August 1916 Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Walter James 19421, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Died 20 August 1916
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Private William Best 1647, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
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Rifleman Ernest Farrar R/19527, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 20 August 1916
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Rifleman Frank Sheard R/19748, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 20 August 1916
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Sapper George Vizard 1079, Royal Engineers
Died 20 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Nevill Lindsay Young , Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 20 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Nevill Lindsay Young. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Death: 20 August 1916 at the Battle of the Somme Western Front
Died 20 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Second Lieutenant William Eric Berridge , Somerset Light Infantry
Died 20 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Vrouw en jongen bij een zwembad in Jogyakarta
20 August 1916
Rijksmuseum

Zwemmend gezelschap in Jogyakarta
20 August 1916
Rijksmuseum

Corporal John Rowe 9705, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 21 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

DESTRUCTION ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
21 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Driver George Baxter L/15242, Royal Field Artillery
Died 21 August 1916
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Johan Larsson Vänersborg
21 August 1916
Vänersborgs museum

Lance Corporal Frank James Dunn 9849, South Wales Borderers
Died 21 August 1916
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Private Alexander Frank Osborne 10896, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Died 21 August 1916
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PRIVATE Cecil Stanley Hudson 5162, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 21 August 1916
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Private Charles Ernest Hamilton 12/3665, Auckland Infantry Regiment
Died 21 August 1916
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Private Frederick Reeves PLY/872, Royal Marine Light Infantry: Plymouth Division
Died 21 August 1916
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Private Harry Stokes 9749, Scottish Rifles, Cameronians
Died 21 August 1916
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Private Henry Underhill 6764, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 21 August 1916
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Private James Crabtree 7443, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 21 August 1916
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Private Joseph Henry Wells S/2374, Seaforth Highlanders
Died 21 August 1916
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Private Lawrence Smith 3628, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 21 August 1916
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Private Lewis Charles Ainsworth 23949, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Died 21 August 1916
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Private Trevor Arnold Thomas 21520, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 21 August 1916
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Private Walter Llewellyn Ladd 2141, Welsh Regiment
Died 21 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private William Brant 13/1235, York and Lancaster Regiment
Died 21 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Alfred Alcock. Unit: 8th Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Death: 21 August 1916, High Wood, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 21 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Second Lieutenant Sydney Thomas Askham. Unit: 9th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Death: 21 August 1916, missing, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 21 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Able Seaman Edwin Jack Page J.6829. (CH), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
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Able Seaman Herbert William Peerless J.4887. (CH), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
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Able Seaman Peter James Frampton 210057 (Po), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
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Able Seaman William Henry Bulbeck J.4675. (Po.), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
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Acting Chief Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class Arthur Edward Wade 270991. (PO), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
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Engine Room Artificer 4th Class George Edgar Morgan M. 7310. (Ch.), HM Submarine E16
Died 22 August 1916
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