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AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Company Serjeant Major George Thomas Verrall S/923, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Corporal John Cunningham VC 8916, Leinster Regiment
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Gunner Lindsay John Robert Macpherson 1910. Unit: 113th Howitzer Battery, 13th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery. Death: 16 April 1917 Western Front
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Hombleaux near Ham (sketch from Church Tower), April 16th 1917
16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant Henry Ellis. Unit: 17th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 16 April 1917 Western Front.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Lieutenant James Sutcliffe Shackleton , Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Mary Nicholls, Women's Land Army. Accidentally killed on duty 16 April 1917.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Private Albert Beer L/10976, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Bernard Fitzgerald Keogh 5126, 11th Battalion
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Bernard Keogh 5126. Unit: D Company, 11th Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 16 April 1917 missing, Western Front.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Private Bertie R Huggins GS/53202, Royal Fusiliers
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Frank Potter 1643, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private George Francis Penwell G/27841, Middlesex Regiment
Died 16 April 1917
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Private George Lyall McLauchlan MM 629123,
Died 16 April 1917
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Private George Percival Irwin G/16645. Unit: 20th Battalion, Royal Fusilliers. Death: 16 April 1917 Western Front. Son of James and Emily Irwin, of 78, Harleyford Rd., Kennington, London.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Private Henry John Weston , Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Henry Joseph White 21340, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 April 1917
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Private Horace Clarke 242159, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 16 April 1917
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Private James Albert McNay 6328. Unit: 20th Reinforcements, 14th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 16 April 1917 Western Front
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Private John James Clark M2/156141, Army Service Corps
Died 16 April 1917
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Private Stanley Hargreaves 235280, Northumberland Fusiliers
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Thomas Kelly 1232. Unit: 17th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 16 April 1917 Loincecourt, Western Front.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Private William G Wright 19719, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 16 April 1917
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Ritning
16 April 1917
Sjöhistoriska museet

Second Lieutenant Douglas Inskipp , Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Died 16 April 1917
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Second Lieutenant Richard Creswell Vaughan , Royal West Kent Regiment
Died 16 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Sergeant Harold Noel Darling Guthrie GS/2363, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Died 16 April 1917
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Serjeant Sidney George Charles Baker 9711, Somerset Light Infantry
Died 16 April 1917
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Serjeant Walter Harold Servante 390521, London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
Died 16 April 1917
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Sgt Servante served with B Company. He died of wounds, aged 26, on 16 April 1917. Sgt Servante is buried at Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery.
Died 16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

THE FRENCH NAVY IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
16 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Archie Jewell ,
Died 17 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE WESTERN FRONT
17 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Allée bordée de fruitiers palissés et coin du verger-roseraie, vus en direction de la forêt bleue, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, B 816
17 avril 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine

Allée du jardin français jouxtant le verger-roseraie, en direction du « village japonais », Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, B 815
17 avril 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine

Corporal Frank Kirtley Honey 799306, Canadian Infantry
Died 17 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Fireman Henry Charles Flux , Mercantile Marine - HMHS Asturias
Died 17 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Framerville Church, April 17th 1917
17 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Fruitiers palissés au bord d\'une allée menant à la forêt bleue, au cœur du verger-roseraie, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, B 814
17 avril 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine

Fruitiers palissés situés au coeur du verger-roseraie, entre deux allées menant à la forêt bleue, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, B 817
17 avril 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine

IWM to Cameron-Swan, Donald, Mr.
17 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Louisa Sarah Ingham, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of pneumonia contracted on duty 17 April 1917.
Died 17 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Margaret Valentine, Munitions work. Accidentally killed on duty 17 April 1917.
Died 17 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Munitions Worker Margaret Valentine , Ministry of Munitions
Died 17 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Edwin John Watkins 203439, Warwickshire Regiment
Died 17 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Harry Brunton Scuffham M2/033842, Army Service Corps
Died 17 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Harry Fry 5351. Unit: 22nd Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 17 April 1917, Bullecourt, Western Front. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Died 17 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Private John Edward Langridge 3494. Unit: Honorable Artillery Company. Death: 17 April 1917 Western Front
Died 17 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Private John Kirby 201987, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
Died 17 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private John William Ison 267964, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 17 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Joseph Smith 325914, Royal Scots
Died 17 April 1917
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Private Leonard H Nelson 9525, East Yorkshire Regiment
Died 17 April 1917
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Private Prince Garfield Railton 19091, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died 17 April 1917
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Private William Thomas Free 3139. Unit: 7th Reinforcements, 40th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 17 April 1917, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Commemorated on the Freetown (King Tom) Cemetery Memorial.
Died 17 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Second Lieutenant Henry George Woolley , Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Died 17 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Sergeant Frederick Alfred Honey G/20245, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
Died 17 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Serjeant James McGilchrist Alexander, MM 265048, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Died 17 April 1917
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THE GERMAN WITHDRAWAL TO THE HINDENBURG LINE, MARCH-APRIL 1917
17 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
17 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Ernest Reece Kappele ,
Died 18 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Cameron-Swan, D., Mr. to IWM
18 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Driver Alexander Mitchell 636197, Royal Field Artillery
Died 18 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Formes fruitières diverses, dans la partie sud-est du verger-roseraie vue en direction de la serre, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, B 818
18 avril 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine

Gunner Fred Harrison 608312, Royal Field Artillery
Died 18 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Gunner Jack Edwin Iredale 29295. Unit: 14th Battery, 5th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery, 2nd Australian Division. Death: 18 April 1917 Western Front. Son of Eva Eliza Iredale, of Sydney, and the late Walter Iredale.
Died 18 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Gunner John Bowling 85074, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 18 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Gunner William Christopher White 61562, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died 18 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Le verger-roseraie labouré et son axe central, vus non loin de la dépendance, en direction de l\'est, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, B 820
18 avril 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine

Leading stoker Thomas Cook 297160, H.M.S. "Victory II"
Died 18 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Nurse Jeanie Smith Lee , Voluntary Aid Detachment
Died 18 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Partie ouest du verger-roseraie labourée, vue près de la dépendance, en direction du jardin japonais, Propriété d\'Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France, B 819
18 avril 1917
Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine

Private Benjamin James Finbow G/15412, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died 18 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Christopher Grosvenor 16797, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Died 18 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Geoffrey Wall Skeete M2/178358, Army Service Corps
Died 18 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Harold Foxlow 70663, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Died 18 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Henry John Rouillier 9447, South Wales Borderers
Died 18 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Leo Belleau Le Boutillier 65553, Canadian Infantry
Died 18 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Thomas Trueman 40989, Scottish Rifles
Died 18 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Private Walter Dallow 8877, South Wales Borderers
Died 18 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Rifleman Horace Frederick Larbey 4791, London Regiment
Died 18 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Sapper John Robert Scott 42454, Royal Engineers
Died 18 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Second Lieutenant Gilbert George Cardew Chilcott. Unit: 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Death: 18 April 1917 Killed in action at Vimy Ridge Western Front
Died 18 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Sergeant William Chrimes Ashbrook , Cheshire Regiment
Died 18 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

Serjeant Reginald Malyn 3841, Honourable Artillery Company
Died 18 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

THE GERMAN WITHDRAWAL TO THE HINDENBURG LINE, MARCH-APRIL 1917
18 April 1917
Imperial War Museum

Edward Arthur Cook 2778, Hereford Regiment
Died 19 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

George Walker Wildman ,
Died 19 April 1917
Lives of the First World War

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