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Corporal Arthur James Bartlett

nobody@flickr.com (IWM Collections) — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 07:43:09 -0700

1/5 Battalion, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade)

Corporal Bartlett, from Kentish Town, London, served in the Arras Sector of the Western Front. He was posted missing, aged 20, during the German Spring Offensive on 28 March 1918.

Corporal Bartlett is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.

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Private Herbert Naylor

nobody@flickr.com (IWM Collections) — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:54:14 -0700

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16 Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

Private Herbert Naylor served with the 16th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own). His service number was 36807. He was recorded as missing on 3 May 1917 aged 25. He was married to Mebel Naylor of Leeds. He is commemorated at the Arras Memorial.

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Lieutenant George Philip Burlton

nobody@flickr.com (IWM Collections) — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:29:47 -0700

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1 Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

Lt Burlton, who had been awarded the Military Cross, was one of two officers of 1 Norfolk Regiment reported missing on 4 June 1916.

Lt Burlton and Lt Edwards are believed to have been killed when they went up a sap on the Arras-Bailleul Road about a mile out of Arras. Lt Burlton is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.

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2 Lieutenant Eric Light

nobody@flickr.com (IWM Collections) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:58:07 -0800

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40 Battalion, Machine Gun Corps

Lt Light was educated at Monkton Combe School, near Bath and Hertford College, Oxford. He enlisted with No 4 Officers Cadet Battalion at Oxford on 11 July 1916 while the Battle of the Somme was in progress on the Western Front.

He received his commission and was posted to the Western Front with 188 Company, Machine Gun Corps on 4 July 1917. He fought in the Battle of Passchendaele and was wounded on 14 November 1917.

On returning to active service, he joined 120 Company, Machine Gun Corps and fought in the action at Bullecourt on 25 February 1918. He was reported missing, aged 20, at Gommecourt during the Allied retreat on the night of 26 March 1918.

He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery. Other memorials which bear his name include those at Monkton Combe School near Bath, Alexandra Park at Hastings, Sussex and St Mary-in-the Castle Church also at Hastings.

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Company Sergeant Major John W Odam

nobody@flickr.com (IWM Collections) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:52:47 -0800

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21 Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Islington's Own)

CSM Odam was killed in action, aged 24, on 23 March 1918. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. Photograph presented by his mother, Mrs E Odam of Islington, London N1

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Lieutenant Henry Spencer Ewen

nobody@flickr.com (IWM Collections) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:03:50 -0800

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1/23 Battalion, London Regiment

Lt Ewen was awarded the Military Cross on 8 December 1917. He was killed in action, aged 29, at Aveluy Wood, near Albert, France, on 5 April 1918. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.

Photograph presented by his mother, Mrs Ewen of Kingsdown.

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Second Lieutenant Bruce Hills Nicholson

nobody@flickr.com (IWM Collections) — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 06:34:05 -0800

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6 Battalion, Royal Fusiliers

Second Lieutenant Nicholson was attached to 4 Battalion at the time of his death on 3 May 1917, aged 20. He is commemorated at the Arras Memorial.

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