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Lieutenant Colonel Josiah Oldfield MD

nobody@flickr.com (IWM Collections) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:53:11 -0800

Royal Army Medical Corps

Lt Col Oldfield (1863 - 1953) raised and commanded a Casualty Clearing Station on the Western Front and was Mentioned in Despatches. He was invalided out of the Army in 1918.

Josiah Oldfield was born in Ryton, Shropshire. He was educated at Newport Grammar School and Oxford before training as a barrister (1888) and practicing on the Oxford court circuit.

During this time, he became a vegetarian and adopted medicine as a second career.

Dr Oldfield founded the Humanitarian Hospital of St Francis and was senior physician to the Lady Margaret Fruitarian Hospital at Sittingbourne.

Oldfield became a prolific writer on health issues related to the vegetarian and humanitarian cause.

In 1901, he founded the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment.

After the First World War, he became a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1920 and continued to write and publish until his death.

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Lieutenant Philip Anthony Brown

nobody@flickr.com (IWM Collections) — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 05:07:54 -0800

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13 Battalion, Durham Light Infantry

Son of Anthony and Jane Chalmers Brown, of "Broomhill," Southend Rd., Beckenham, Kent.

A graduate of New College Oxford, he was killed in action aged 29 on 4 November 1915 at Armentieres. He is buried at Ration Farm Military Cemetery, La Chapelle-d'Armentieres.

His brother, Captain T A Brown was killed near Loos in 1917.

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Captain Theodore Anthony Brown

nobody@flickr.com (IWM Collections) — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:16:16 -0800

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3 Battalion, attached to 1 Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)

Son of Anthony and Jane Chalmers Brown, of 29, Southend Rd., Beckenham, Kent.

He served with the Carabiniers before being attached to The Buffs. His letters from the front were privately published as a book, A Year in the Salient.

Aged 27, he was killed near Loos on 15 April 1917. He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. Captain Brown's brother, Lt P A Brown was killed in 1915 at Armentières.

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Major General William Sefton Brancker

nobody@flickr.com (IWM Collections) — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:51:50 -0700

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Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force

Major General Brancker was born in 1877 at Woolwich, Kent and was educated at Bedford School. He joined the Army in 1896 where he received a commission in the Royal Field Artillery and saw active service during the Second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa.

After serving briefly as RFA Adjutant, he transferred to the Indian Army where he rose to the rank of Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Army Headquarters, India. At the same time, he developed an interest in aviation.

By 1913, Brancker was a junior staff officer at the War Office under General Sir David Henderson. He learnt to fly and was appointed to the Royal Flying Corps reserve, serving as Deputy Director Military Aeronautics during 1914 - 1915 and Director of Air Organisation during 1916 - 1917.

A strong administrator, Brancker was responsible for establishing the Royal Flying Corps in France when the First World War broke out and continued to organise the supply of aircraft, engines, mechanical transport, spares, stores, pilots and ground crew for much of the First World War.

At the end of the War, he retired from the Royal Air Force in order to develop his interest in civil aviation. Air Vice Marshal Brancker was killed on 5 October 1930 when the R101 airship, on which he was a passenger, crashed on its inaugural flight from Cardington to India.

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Gunner J Orr

nobody@flickr.com (IWM Collections) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:01:20 -0700

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1 (Kent) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

Gunner Orr enlisted in June 1915 and was killed at Ypres on 10 September 1917. He is buried at Ypres Reservoir Cemetery. Photograph presented by his sister, Miss E Orr of Glasgow.

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