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The Wartime Memories Project - The Great War - Day by Day



16th May 1915

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    Want to know more about 16th of May 1915?


    There are:55 items tagged 16th of May 1915 available in our Library

      These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War.




    Remembering those who died this day, 16th of May 1915.

  • Sgt. Charles Barnet. 2nd Btn. Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry Read their Story.
  • Pte. Angus Mitchell Barr. 9th Battalion Highland Light Infantry
  • Pte. Sidney Charles Herbert Baxter. 10th (Service) Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story.
  • Spr. Francis Bray. 11th Field Company Royal Engineers Read their Story.
  • Pte. Peter Callaghan. 2nd Battalion Border Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte. George "Jordie" Caughey. 2nd Btn. Border Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte John Edwin Denby. 2nd Btn Yorkshire Regiment
  • Pte. James Drummond. 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Pte. David Edwards. 2nd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment
  • Pte. Ernest Albert Hahner. 2nd Battalion Border Regiment Read their Story.
  • Gdsmn. George Mckenzie Henderson. 2nd Btn. Scots Guards Read their Story.
  • Pte. Michael Herron. 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • L/Cpl. William Owen Hughes. 1st Btn Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Pte. William Maitland Innes. 2nd Btn. Read their Story.
  • Bdr. Harry Geoffrey Jeffery. MID 41st Royal Field Artillery
  • Pte. Robert Thomas Jones. 1st Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers
  • Edward Lavery. 2nd Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
  • Pte David Luker. 2nd Btn Royal Berkshire Regiment
  • Pte. Jack Matthews. 1st Battalion, C Company. Royal Welsh Fusilier Read their Story.
  • L/Cpl. John McKechnie. 2nd Battalion, F Company Scots Guards Read their Story.
  • Pte. James Monks. 1st Battalion Welch Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Pte. Thomas James Moss. 3rd Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story.
  • Sgt.Mjr. Magnus Sinclair Norquay. 15th (Glasgow) Battalion Highland Light Infantry
  • Pte. James Owens. 2nd Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Pte. John Parry. 1st Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Bernard Reynolds. 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
  • Pte. Charles Ralph Shears. 1st Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte. Thomas Patrick Smith. 2nd Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story.
  • Pte. William Charles Stanley. 1st Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte Samuel Stewart. 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Pte. Nicholas Welsh. 2nd Battalion, B Company Border Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte. Richard Williams. 1st Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Pte. David Smart Wilson. E Coy. 2nd Btn. Scots Guards Read their Story.
  • Pte. William Wilson. 2nd Btn. 'F' Coy. Scots Guards Read their Story.

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