127 died on this day: Wed 23/12/1914

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Belgium: Hainaut CALVAIRE (ESSEX) MILITARY CEMETERY
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796 Private WOODS 2nd Bn. Monmouthshire Regiment


Belgium: Hainaut LANCASHIRE COTTAGE CEMETERY
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7085 Private ANDREWS 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment
6444 Lance Corporal WALTER BATCHELOR "A" Coy. 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment
4652 Private CLARKE 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment


Belgium: Hainaut MONS (BERGEN) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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2455 Private VAUX 2nd Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment


Belgium: Hainaut PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL
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3/8618 Private FRANK CARNELL 2nd Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
S/445 Private FREDERICK WITHECOMBE EASTERLING 1st Bn. The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
15885 Private HENRY WALTER FRETTER 1st Bn. Grenadier Guards
1214 Rifleman CHARLES JAMES PRIOR 3rd Bn. Rifle Brigade


Belgium: Hainaut PROWSE POINT MILITARY CEMETERY
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8922 Private HENNESSEY 2nd Bn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers


Belgium: West-Vlaanderen DRANOUTRE MILITARY CEMETERY
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3/10254 Private DOUGHERTY 2nd Bn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)


Belgium: West-Vlaanderen KEMMEL CHATEAU MILITARY CEMETERY
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3487 Private JOHN SHALLCROSS WARD 10th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)


Belgium: West-Vlaanderen YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
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7860 Lance Corporal ALEXANDER GEORGE HAMILTON 2nd Bn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)


Canada: British Columbia ESQUIMALT (VETERANS') CEMETERY
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310 Sergeant Major WALTER MANTON Supernumerary Staff Canadian Engineers


Egypt: HELIOPOLIS (PORT TEWFIK) MEMORIAL
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Artisan RAMESH CHANDRA BANARJI Supply and Transport Corps


France: Nord BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY, NORD
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7016 Private FREDRICK REGINALD FINCH 4th Bn. Middlesex Regiment
3784 Private RAWLINSON 10th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Lieutenant GEORGE LEWIS SPARROW 3rd Bn. South Wales Borderers
11795 Sapper STEAD 9th Field Coy. Royal Engineers


France: Nord ESTAIRES COMMUNAL CEMETERY AND EXTENSION
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Captain RALPH GEORGE GRIFFITHS ROBSON 3rd Coy. Royal Engineers


France: Nord MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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12859 Private GEORGE WILLIAM DAVIS 3rd Bn. Royal Fusiliers


France: Nord RATION FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, LA CHAPELLE-D'ARMENTIERES
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L/7130 Private HYLAND 1st Bn. The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)


France: Pas de Calais BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY
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14236 Private JOHN BRICKLEY 1st Bn. South Wales Borderers
7 Rifleman GORE ALE 1st/ 4th Gurkha Rifles
776 Private WALLACE HINCHCLIFFE 1st Bn. Manchester Regiment
1897 Private FRANCIS GEORGE JONES No. 1 Coy. 1st Bn. Manchester Regiment
11329 Rifleman NICHOLSON 1st Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
7136 Private O'NEILL 2nd Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers
2520 Private ROBBINS 13th Hussars


France: Pas de Calais BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
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3358 Private HERBERT FORD 1st Field Amb Royal Army Medical Corps
151 Private WALTER GEORGE SLIGHT 1st Bn. Middlesex Regiment


France: Pas de Calais BROWN'S ROAD MILITARY CEMETERY, FESTUBERT
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9473 Private AVIS 1st Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
1743 Private BURROWS 1st Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment


France: Pas de Calais FAUQUISSART MILITARY CEMETERY, LAVENTIE
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9691 Private NUNN 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment
4725 Rifleman VIDGEN 2nd Bn. Rifle Brigade


France: Pas de Calais GORRE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY
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737 Private HOLLOWAY 2nd Bn. Welsh Regiment


France: Pas de Calais LE TOURET MEMORIAL
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2070 Private ARTHUR AMES 1st Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
2164 Lance Corporal WALTER CAIRNS BLACK 1st/14th Bn. London Regiment (London Scottish)
11434 Private SAMUEL BROCKHOUSE 1st Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment
7593 Private ARTHUR G. BROWN 1st Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
8130 Private WILLIAM BROWN 1st Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
741 Private WILLIAM H. COLBORN 1st Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
9953 Private CHARLES T. COOPEY "C" Coy. 1st Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
2803 Private WILLIAM WILL DAVIDSON 1st/14th Bn. London Regiment (London Scottish)
L/9937 Private WILLIAM GILBEY 2nd Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment
L/5854 Private FRANK GODDARD 2nd Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment
7717 Private ALBERT E. HEWER 1st Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
7653 Private ROWLAND EDWARD HILDER 2nd Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment
S/2130 Private CLAUDE GERALD HUDSON 2nd Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment
9857 Private HARRY J. JELLY 1st Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
9832 Private ERNEST JOHNSON 2nd Bn. East Lancashire Regiment
GS/167 Private ALFRED LANGFORD 2nd Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment
Lieutenant Colonel HENRY ANDERSON LEMPRIERE (D S O) 7th Dragoon Guards (Princess Royal's)
Lieutenant IAN MACLEAN MACANDREW (Mentioned in Despatches) 1st Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
591 Private CHARLES MacINTOSH (Mentioned in Despatches) 1st Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
3/5369 Private DUNCAN MACKAY 1st Bn. Cameron Highlanders
1973 Private HENRY J. McCARTHY 1st Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
8341 Private THOMAS McKENZIE 1st Bn. Cameron Highlanders
9226 Private ARTHUR FREDERICK MERRIOTT 1st Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
1178 Corporal SIDNEY NEATE 1st Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
Lieutenant STUART SHERIDAN NORMAN 1st Bn. Manchester Regiment
9287 Lance Corporal THOMAS ALFRED PACKER 1st Bn. Scots Guards
L/7384 Private JOSEPH PANKHURST 2nd Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment
9810 Private JOHN PARKER 2nd Bn. East Lancashire Regiment
S/2127 Lance Corporal ARTHUR PETTY 2nd Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment
1653 Rifleman SIMEON ROBINSON 1st Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
1828 Private BERNARD DOUGLAS TOD 14th Bn. London Regiment (London Scottish)
730 Private FREDERICK JOHN WALKER 1st/14th Bn. London Regiment (London Scottish)
2718 Private ARTHUR WILKEY 1st Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment
10017 Corporal THOMAS WRIGHT 1st Bn. Coldstream Guards
8987 Private WYATT 2nd Bn. Leicestershire Regiment
6337 Private ARTHUR JOHN YOUNG 1st Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment


France: Pas de Calais LE TROU AID POST CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX
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11319 Private BAUCHOP 2nd Bn. Scots Guards


France: Pas de Calais LILLERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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1205 Lance Naik DAL SINGH 87th Punjabis
1880 Sepoy DIL PAT 6th Jat Light Infantry
9575 Serjeant PHILIP CHARLES JERVIS 2nd Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers
1609 Lance Corporal MURPHY 1st Bn. Manchester Regiment


France: Pas de Calais LILLERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
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Second Lieutenant DOUGLAS HOLME WIGGIN 1st Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment


France: Pas de Calais LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY
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39725 Gunner MAYCOCK 6th Bty. Royal Field Artillery


France: Pas de Calais MEERUT MILITARY CEMETERY, ST. MARTIN-LES-BOULOGNE
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2520 Lance Naik GUL DAD 58th Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force)
1720 Naik KASHIRAM THUKUR 1st Bn. 1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment)
1058 Sepoy NARAIN SINGH 47th Sikhs


France: Pas de Calais NEUVE-CHAPELLE MEMORIAL
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3313 Rifleman CHANDRASING THAPA 2nd Bn. 8th Gurkha Rifles
2059 Rifleman PAN SING THAPA 1st Bn. 39th Garhwal Rifles
3799 Sepoy SANTA SINGH 58th Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force)
3618 Sepoy WARYAM SINGH 58th Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force)


France: Pas de Calais NEUVILLE-SOUS-MONTREUIL INDIAN CEMETERY
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1924 Rifleman TIKA RAM PUN 2nd Bn. 2nd King Edward's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)


France: Pas de Calais RUE-DU-BACQUEROT NO.1 MILITARY CEMETERY, LAVENTIE
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L/11337 Corporal JOHN AINGER 2nd Bn. Middlesex Regiment


France: Pas de Calais RUE-PETILLON MILITARY CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX
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9710 Private CHAPMAN 2nd Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment


France: Pas de Calais SAILLY-SUR-LA-LYS CHURCHYARD
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4264 Lance Corporal McNALLY 2nd Bn. Border Regiment


France: Pas de Calais WOBURN ABBEY CEMETERY, CUINCHY
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11060 Private BLACKMAN 1st Bn. Coldstream Guards


France: Somme ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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2431 Private CHARLES WILLIAM PARKES "A" Coy. 2nd Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment


Germany: Hamburg HAMBURG CEMETERY
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7222 Rifleman CLOUGH 1st Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps


Gibraltar: GIBRALTAR (NORTH FRONT) CEMETERY
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J/11550 Ordinary Seaman CECIL RICHARD HOSKING H.M.S "Pelorus." Royal Navy


India: DELHI MEMORIAL (INDIA GATE)
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1183 Sepoy NUR ALI KHAN 1st Bn. 22nd Punjabis


Ireland, Republic of: County Kildare CURRAGH MILITARY CEMETERY
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11992 Private WILLIAM HEGARTY 6th Bn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers


Nigeria: LOKOJA MEMORIAL
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6462 Private ZAKARI ILLO Nigeria Regiment, W.A.F.F.


South Africa: Northern Cape GOODHOUSE CEMETERY
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Lieutenant MINNAAR Carnarvon Commando Mounted Commandos, S.A. Forces
Lieutenant OLIVIER Carnarvon Commando Mounted Commandos, S.A. Forces


South Africa: Northern Cape KIMBERLEY (WEST END) CEMETERY
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3406 Rifleman WILLIAM FRANCIS 1st South African Mounted Rifles


United Kingdom: Cornwall MILLBROOK (ALL SAINTS) CHURCH CEMETERY
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9524 Private ADAMS 4th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders


United Kingdom: Devon PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
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PLY/15138 Private ROBERT ALLINSON HARBRON H.M.S. "Fox." Royal Marine Light Infantry


United Kingdom: Dumfriesshire ST. MUNGO OLD PARISH CHURCHYARD
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159 Corporal TODD 5th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers


United Kingdom: Durham SOUTH SHIELDS (HARTON) CEMETERY
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14581 Private FOX 7th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment


United Kingdom: Glamorganshire SWANSEA (CWMGELLY) CEMETERY
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1531 Boy NEWBURY 1st/6th Bn. Welsh Regiment


United Kingdom: Hampshire HASLAR ROYAL NAVAL CEMETERY
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147864 Petty Officer 1st Class ALBERT NORTHCOTT H.M.S. "Victory" Royal Navy


United Kingdom: Hampshire NETLEY MILITARY CEMETERY
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13355 Private HADLEY 3rd Bn. Worcestershire Regiment
TS/4336 Driver WILSON Remount Depot (Swaythling) Army Service Corps


United Kingdom: Kent MAIDSTONE CEMETERY, KENT
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47188 Private ALEXANDER GOODWIN KEMP 17th Bn. Canadian Infantry


United Kingdom: Lancashire LIVERPOOL (ANFIELD) CEMETERY
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16578 Private PATRICK HOBAN 18th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)


United Kingdom: Lancashire LIVERPOOL (KIRKDALE) CEMETERY
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Carpenter's Crew ANDREW. WILLIAMSON H.M.S. Alsatian Mercantile Marine Reserve


United Kingdom: London BROMPTON CEMETERY
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7033 Private NEWMAN 2nd Bn. Welsh Regiment


United Kingdom: London GREENWICH CEMETERY
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S/1598 Private McDONALD 13th Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders


United Kingdom: London TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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Deck Hand DAVID ALLEN Steam Trawler "Ocana" (Grimsby) Mercantile Marine
Trimmer BROWN Steam Trawler "Ocana" (Grimsby) Mercantile Marine
Steward FLOOD Steam Trawler "Ocana" (Grimsby) Mercantile Marine
Mate JAMES HAWLEY Steam Trawler "Ocana" (Grimsby) Mercantile Marine
Third Hand WILLIAM A. JOEL Steam Trawler "Ocana" (Grimsby) Mercantile Marine
Skipper ERNEST WILLIAM LARKIN "Ocana." Mercantile Marine
Deck Hand SMITH Steam Trawler "Ocana" (Grimsby) Mercantile Marine
Spare Hand GEORGE O. VON DIX Steam Trawler "Ocana" (Grimsby) Mercantile Marine
Chief Engineer WEBSTER Steam Trawler "Ocana" (Grimsby) Mercantile Marine


United Kingdom: Norfolk BURGH ST. MARGARET CHURCHYARD EXTENSION
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4011 Private ALBERT HENRY NARBURGH 1st/4th Bn. Norfolk Regiment


United Kingdom: Surrey CROYDON (MITCHAM ROAD) CEMETERY
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32343 Private HOARE 24th Bn. London Regiment


United Kingdom: Surrey CROYDON (QUEEN'S ROAD) CEMETERY
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54702 Sapper NEAL Royal Engineers


United Kingdom: Wiltshire TIDWORTH MILITARY CEMETERY
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11617 Private WALLACE 8th Bn. Welsh Regiment


United Kingdom: Yorkshire SHEFFIELD (BURNGREAVE) CEMETERY
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2497 Private HYDES Depot Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)