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TIMES OBITUARIES

In looking for various officers obituaries it seems a shame that the ones I don't need to look at are passed over, so I will try and post as many pages of obituaries as I find. These will be in random order. I will save these and post the images, for a short time only as these will need to be uploaded off forum, but leave the names of the men (and women) posted on this thread, so people can request a repost as needed.

To be continued...

Steve.

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First up:

Times 22nd October 1918

Captain Digby Charles Bathe Cotes, North Staffordshire Regiment, DoW 15-10-1918

Commander Lawrence Hugh Crawford, R.N.R., Died of seizure 19-10-1918

Lt-Commander Christopher J F Eddis, died on Pneumonia 19-10-1918

Captain Harold Augustus Hodges, Monmouth Regiment, Missing, 24-3-1918

Captain Rowland Lord, Northumberland Fusiliers, KIA 8-10-1918

Captain, the Hon. Ronald Ian McDonald, Cameron Highalnders, died of Pneumonia

Lieutenant William Cameron Pickering, Rifle Brigade, KIA 11-10-1918

Captain Alexander Reid, Gordon Highlanders, DoW 13-10-1918

Captain Alfred Eric Ryan, M.C. Queens Royal West Surrey, wounded and missing 23-3-1918

Lieutenant Colin Tobs Coleridge, RAF, killed in air accident in Ontario, 23-7-1918

Second Lieutenant John Milton Compston, West Yorkshire Regiment, KIA 8-10-1918

Brigadier General Sir William Kay, Bt., C.M.G., D.S.O., KIA 4-10-1918

Second Lieutenant Ralph Frederick, RAF, killed 2-9-1918

Miss Sophia Violet Barrett, V.A.D., died 10-10-1918 in the sinking of R.M.S. Leinster

Also includes repatriated officers and OR Prisoners interned in Holland.

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Steve.

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At the other end of the War:

Times 5th September 1914

Lieutenant D E Boyle, Lancashire Fusiliers

Lieutenant Colonel C H H Brett, Suffolk Regiment

Lieutenant M E L H Clarke, Worcestershire Regiment

Captain Henry Clutterbuck, Royal Lancaster Regiment

Major Hubert Francis Crighton, Irish Guards

Captain Walter Richard Aston Dawes, Wiltshire Regiment

Lieutenant A F Day, Royal Engineers

Lieutenant Colonel Alfred McNair Dykes, Royal Lancaster regiment

Second Lieutenant C M Hoare, 15th Hussars

Lieutenant Geoffrey Lambton, Coldstream Guards

Captain Frank Scobell Nisbet, Manchester Regiment

Major Granville Joseph Chetwynd Stapylton, R.F.A.

Lieutenant Cyril Steele Steele-Perkins, Royal Lancaster Regiment

Captain Frederick George Theobald, Royal Lancaster Regiment

Captain Arthur Claud Ward, D.S.O., Lancashire Fusiliers

Lieutenant Cyril Herbert Spence Whittle, 15th Hussars

Second Lieutenant John Bower Harman, R.F.A.

Major J S Cawley, Cavalry

Captain B N Denison, KOYLI

Lieutenant A H Stewart, Gloucestershire Regiment

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Steve.

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Final part of the above:

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Steve.

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Sorry to interrupt your thread, Steve, and I will remove this - but couldn't help seeing this (the name jumped out some how) in post #2.

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How DID the family cope? A tale repeated so many times of course, but such a sad story.

Jim

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Many libraries now have the Times Digital Archive. Its "searchability" is a bit like the LG - takes getting used to - but extremely useful. You can find obituaries etc etc etc .....

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Many libraries now have the Times Digital Archive. Its "searchability" is a bit like the LG - takes getting used to - but extremely useful. You can find obituaries etc etc etc .....

The vagaries of Search is one of the reasons I'm posting these extracts. There are a lot of obituaries in there that might never be found. The even smaller type of the Times scans makes the search even more hit and miss than the Gazette! Hopefully, people will find them useful for researching particular regiments, and it will eventually form an index of sorts.

No need to delete Jim. There are so many tragedies. It still effects me to see these descriptions of lost lives. In researching some of the surviving officers of the Northamptonshires, so many of them left a strong legacy, that I often wonder what contribution these men would have made had they lived. The good old "Lost generation" chestnut.

Steve.

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7th August 1915

2nd Lt Louis Garrett-Smith, 61st Field Company RE

2nd Lt Robert Longbottom, 7th KRRC

Bt. Lt. Col. Arthur Frederick Sergeaunt, R.E.

Lt Col. Charles Slingsby Chaplin, 9th KRRC

Captain Frederick St John Barton, 1st Hampshire Regiment

Captain Philip Edwin Bradney, 6th Somerset L.I.

Captain Norman Bowen Challenor, 3rd Royal Berkshire Regiment

2nd Lt. Guy Francis Ormond Devit, 7th Rifle Brigade

Captain Geoffrey Dowling, 7th KRRC

2nd Lt Robert George Mead, 8th Royal Fusiliers

Lt George Mitford Paddison, 6th DCLI

2nd Lt Richard Fothergill Robinson, 7th KRRC

Captain Arthur Gilbert Rollason, 7th Worcestershire Regiment

Lt Raymond Wallis Rundle, 1st Sherwood Foresters

Captain A A T Tanqueray, 9th KRRC

Lt Roger Wentworth Watson, 8th KRRC

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Steve.

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Times 6th February 1915

Captain Reinfred Tatton Arundell, 2nd Rajputs.

2-Lt Norman Cummins Nelles, 1st Northamptonshire Regiment

Lt L H Shapter, Reserve Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, att. Hampshire Regiment

Captain Oriel William Erskine Bannerman, 15th Lancers Indian Army

2-Lt Sidney Alfred Nathaniel Shapto Barthropp, 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment.

Captain William K George, 1st Gloucestershire Regiment

2-Lt B G N Watkin, R.F.A.

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Steve.

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Times 29th May 1918

Lt James Christopher Francis Lewis, R.N. - Lost overboard 26-4-18

2nd-Lt Edmund Nicholas Prideaux-Brune, Rifle Brigade, KIA 22-5-18

2-Lt W A Fleet, Grenadier Guards, KIA 18-5-1918

Lt the Hon Philip Fitzalan Howard, Welsh Guards, KIA 21-5-18

Lt Charles Douglas Wells, MC, RAF, KIA 16-5-18

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