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Soldiers and their units

Researching individual soldiers or their units in the Great War.

 

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  2. Royal Irish Rifles

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  3. Identify Scottish Regiment from photo ?

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  7. 1st Battalion D.C.L.I.

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  8. help needed

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  9. General Sir Edward Riddell

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  10. Death of Tom Kirk, WW1 veteran, aged 106

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  11. help with 2nd Beds photo

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  12. Pic of Great Grandad

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  17. A Winter's tale

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  18. Pte 13370 Albert Fitzgibbon

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  19. 14th Sherwood Foresters

    By eagleeye,
    • 4 replies
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  20. Transferred between regiments

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  21. Munster Fusliers medal numbers?

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  22. Duke of Cornwall LI Medal card

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  23. Search for Prv James A Law

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  24. Reginald Harold Wood

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  25. Died in 1919, would you get Death Plaque?

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