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Gerald Kirk | Grave
SECOND LIEUTENANT G. KIRK Name: Gerald Kirk Regiment & Unit/Ship: King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 1st/5th Bn. Date of Death: 24 April 1915 Age at Death: – Buried or commemorated at: POPERINGHE OLD MILITARY CEMETERY II. K. 28. Belgium Awards: – Additional Info: – Service Record: View Record A high-resolution (non-watermarked) digital copy of this […]
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SERJEANT S/18170 J. H. SPEIRS MM Name: James Hamilton Speirs MM Regiment & Unit/Ship: Cameron Highlanders 7th Bn. Date of Death: 20 August 1917 Age at Death: 31 years old Buried or commemorated at: DOCHY FARM NEW BRITISH CEMETERY VI. E. 15. Belgium Awards: – Additional Info: – Service Record: View Record A high-resolution (non-watermarked) […]
Continue readingJoseph Frederick Hargrave | Grave
GUNNER 65361 J. F. HARGRAVE Name: Joseph Frederick Hargrave Regiment & Unit/Ship: Royal Garrison Artillery 346th Siege Bty. Date of Death: 19 October 1917 Age at Death: – Buried or commemorated at: STEENKERKE BELGIAN MILITARY CEMETERY A. 1. Belgium Awards: – Additional Info: – Service Record: View Record A high-resolution (non-watermarked) digital copy of this […]
Continue readingThomas Henry Morris | Graves
SERJEANT 51363 T. H. MORRIS Name: Thomas Henry Morris Regiment & Unit/Ship: Lincolnshire Regiment 2nd Bn. Date of Death: 24 March 1918 Age at Death: – Buried or commemorated at: POZIERES MEMORIAL Panel 23 and 24. France Awards: – Additional Info: – Service Record: View Record
Continue readingEvelyn Henry Lintott | Graves
LIEUTENANT E. H. LINTOTT Name: Evelyn Henry Linott Regiment & Unit/Ship: West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own) 15th Bn. Date of Death: 1 July 1916 Age at Death: 33 years old Buried or commemorated at: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL Pier and Face 2 A 2 C and 2 D. France Awards: – Additional Info: Former professional […]
Continue readingJimmy Speirs – A Hero of the Football and Battlefield
JIMMY SPEIRS - HERO OF THE FOOTBALL AND BATTLEFIELD In the ‘Official History of the Great War’, Brigadier-General J. E. Edmonds records that 244,897 British and Commonwealth soldiers became casualties during the Third Battle of Ypres. Among the dead was an FA Cup winning captain who played more than three hundred games as professional footballer before earning […]
Continue readingLeeds City Football Club and the First World War
LEEDS CITY FOOTBALL CLUB 1914/15 Squad Leeds City Football League and FA Cup Squad View 1914/15 Results Leeds City Football League and FA Cup Results View Home Ground Elland Road Football Ground, Leeds, Yorkshire View Players Served Leeds City Players Served in the First World War View
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