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THE WOMEN'S WORK IN THE WAR INDUSTRY, 1914-1918
23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

THE WOMEN'S WORK IN THE WAR PRODUCTION, 1914-1918
23 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Corporal John Clare Hoadley 106153, Royal Engineers
Died 24 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Lieutenant Rex William Bird , Wiltshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1916
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Private Edward Steel G/8062, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 24 August 1916
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Private Frank Adams 4517, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1916
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Private Frederick A Flower 11867, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died 24 August 1916
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Private Harry Dawson R 9916, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 24 August 1916
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Private Henry Alfred McClure 17/772, Royal Irish Rifles
Died 24 August 1916
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Private James Acwin 4934, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1916
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Private John Campbell S/17990, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Died 24 August 1916
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Private John Henry Quinn 19169, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 24 August 1916
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Private John Howells 10817, King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Died 24 August 1916
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Private Mark Telford Turnbull 7491, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 24 August 1916
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Private Oscar Alfred Horsten 3830/A. Unit: 25th Battalion, attached to the 49th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 24 August 1916, died of wounds at Brighton, England.
Died 24 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Robert Reeves 27664, Worcestershire Regiment
Died 24 August 1916
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Pte Oldroyd was reported missing, aged 20, on 24 August 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Died 24 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Second Lieutenant Arthur William Emmanuel Long , Royal West Surrey Regiment
Died 24 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Patrick Wallace Gould , King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 24 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant Rudolph Russell Lawrence , Shropshire Light Infantry
Died 24 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant William Nicklin , Royal Engineers
Died 24 August 1916
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Second Lieutenant William Nicklin. Unit: C Company, Special Brigade, Royal Engineers. Death: 24 August 1916 Western Front
Died 24 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Serjeant Clarence Thomas Steane 1531, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 24 August 1916
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THE FRENCH AIR FORCE ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918
24 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Benjamin Defehr 2063,
Died 25 August 1916
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2Lt Hubert Dunbavand , 528th Field Coy RE (1/3rd Durham Fortress Engineers)
Died 25 August 1916
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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
25 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Driver Walter George Birkett 294, Canadian Field Artillery
Died 25 August 1916
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Lieutenant Lewis Harold Barnard , Manchester Regiment
Died 25 August 1916
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Private Arthur William FrÃ¶lich (Frohlich) 879. Unit: "D" Company, 24th Battalion, 6th Brigade, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 25 August 1916, Western Front.
Died 25 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Frank Greenwood 20991, East Lancashire Regiment
Died 25 August 1916
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Private Harry Watson Robinson 5857, Highland Light Infantry
Died 25 August 1916
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Private Ivor Hern 11403, South Wales Borderers
Died 25 August 1916
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Private John Driscoll 9620, South Wales Borderers
Died 25 August 1916
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Private John Lynch 10084, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 25 August 1916
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Private Thomas Frank Paxford 14947, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 25 August 1916
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Rifleman Ernest Hapted 5565, Rifle Brigade
Died 25 August 1916
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Rifleman Walter Turnbull C/12487, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 25 August 1916
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Ritning
25 August 1916
Sjöhistoriska museet

Second Lieutenant Charles Harold Wood , South Wales Borderers attached King's Royal Rifle Corps
Died 25 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Second Lieutenant Frederick Clifford Alabaster , Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 25 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Second Lieutenant John Emerton Sanders , Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 25 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Sergeant Reginald Walter W James 581. Unit: 19th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 25 August 1916 Pozieres Western Front.
Died 25 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, JULY-NOVEMBER 1916
25 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

THE BULGARIAN ARMY IN THE MACEDONIAN CAMPAIGN, 1915-1918
25 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Annie Johnston , Voluntary Aid Detachment
Died 26 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Annie Johnston, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died August 1916 26 August 1916.
Died 26 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Captain Edward Beach Hatt. Unit: "C" Company, 7th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. Death: 26 August 1916, killed in action at Trones Wood, Somme, Western Front.
Died 26 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Corporal Charles Samuel Tucker 1069 MM. Unit: BCompany, 22nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 26 August 1916 Killed in action at the capture of Mouqet Farm Western Front
Died 26 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Corporal Herbert Francis Andrews G/6188, Middlesex Regiment
Died 26 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Errichtung von Kriegsküchen - An die Grazer Haushaltungsvorstände - Graz
26 August 1916
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library

Major Lionel Goodeve , Royal Scots Fusiliers
Died 26 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Bernhard Mackarill Chapman 1431, 2/15 London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
Died 26 August 1916
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Private James Higgins 2057, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Died 26 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Joseph James Newton 702. Unit: C Company, 21st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 26 August 1916 Killed in action Western Front
Died 26 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Leonard Fitzroy Wilkinson 3954. Unit: A Company, 9th/21st Battalion, 6th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 26 August 1916 Reported missing for 12 months then reported killed in action at Mouquet Farm, France Western Front
Died 26 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private Sidney William Brewer TF/1207, 1/5th East Kent Regiment
Died 26 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Private Thomas Stanton 13220, South Wales Borderers
Died 26 August 1916
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Private William C Greenaway 26951, Gloucestershire Regiment
Died 26 August 1916
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Private William John Wilson 5566/267192. Unit: 1st/7th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 26 August 1916 Western Front
Died 26 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Private William Leslie Hyder 7638. Unit: 24th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 26 August 1916 Killed in action Western Front
Died 26 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

Ragtime in Goomeri, 1916
Taken 26 Aug 1916
State Library of Queensland, Australia

Sapper Bertram Martin 95912, Royal Engineers
Died 26 August 1916
Lives of the First World War

Second Lieutenant Alfred Vivian Stanfield. Unit: 2nd Battalion, The Queenâ€™s (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Death: 26 August 1916 Killed in action at Guillemont Western Front
Died 26 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, JULY-NOVEMBER 1916
26 August 1916
Imperial War Museum

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