Lady Linda Posted 31 October , 2018 Share Posted 31 October , 2018 Does anyone know of a list of famous people who died in WW1? I have a list of those who served and survived. Thanks for any suggestions I am sure will be forthcoming. Linda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 31 October , 2018 Share Posted 31 October , 2018 Lord Kitchener Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassenach Posted 31 October , 2018 Share Posted 31 October , 2018 Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulianR Posted 31 October , 2018 Share Posted 31 October , 2018 Maude, the British commander in Mesopotamia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil 2242 Posted 31 October , 2018 Share Posted 31 October , 2018 Henry Moseley, British physicist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alisonmallen62 Posted 31 October , 2018 Share Posted 31 October , 2018 Poets Charles Sorley and Edward Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alisonmallen62 Posted 31 October , 2018 Share Posted 31 October , 2018 Footballers Walter Tull and Leigh Roose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scalyback Posted 31 October , 2018 Share Posted 31 October , 2018 Saki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassenach Posted 31 October , 2018 Share Posted 31 October , 2018 A E J Collins, the record-breaking schoolboy cricketer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 31 October , 2018 Share Posted 31 October , 2018 England Rugby international Lt Ronnie Poulton [Palmer], Royal Berkshire Regt; Scottish Rugby international David Revell Bedell-Sievright (staff surgeon, RND). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWK Posted 31 October , 2018 Share Posted 31 October , 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaySearching Posted 31 October , 2018 Share Posted 31 October , 2018 The unknown warrior Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 31 October , 2018 Share Posted 31 October , 2018 Brilliant Ray! Prince Maurice of Battenberg, the youngest grandchild of Queen Victoria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trishedst Posted 31 October , 2018 Share Posted 31 October , 2018 Poet Francis Ledwidge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 31 October , 2018 Share Posted 31 October , 2018 2 hours ago, Lady Linda said: Does anyone know of a list of famous people who died in WW1? The CWGC has a list of 1,074,820 names, all deserving of the honour of being famous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jervis Posted 31 October , 2018 Share Posted 31 October , 2018 Manfred von Richthofen Thomas Kettle MP & poet Willie Redmond MP & Irish Nationalist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roselyn2 Posted 31 October , 2018 Share Posted 31 October , 2018 Ellis Evans. Royal Welsh Fusiliers. ( Hedd Wyn. ) Poet. Lyn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Maria Posted 31 October , 2018 Share Posted 31 October , 2018 One name that crops up in many memoirs and who was a famous actor at the time is Basil Hallam . He was killed when his observation balloon broke loose and he fell to his death . Also the Prime Minister's son Raymond Asquith who was killed during the Battle of the Somme . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil 2242 Posted 1 November , 2018 Share Posted 1 November , 2018 Continuing the scientist theme of my previous post.....Eduard Buchner, German chemist and Nobel prize winner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandy hall Posted 1 November , 2018 Share Posted 1 November , 2018 You need this book by Richard Van Emden Famous 1914-1918. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Famous-1914-1918-Richard-Van-Emden/dp/1848841973 Mandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Linda Posted 1 November , 2018 Author Share Posted 1 November , 2018 Thank you one and all, that is great ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Maria Posted 1 November , 2018 Share Posted 1 November , 2018 George Butterworth , composer . Killed at the Battle of the Somme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 1 November , 2018 Share Posted 1 November , 2018 Define "famous" ... you've got politicians or their kids, poets (or their kids ... Jack Kipling for example) , you've got sportsmen (football players, cyclists (the Tour de France 1914 started on the day Gravilo Princip shot Franz Ferdinand and many went off to war after crossing the finish line ) cricketeers, etc etc ...); then there's musicians, actors, scientists, wannabees... you name it... there are guys that were probably bound to be famous one day if they did not get killed... maybe one of the egyptologists killed during the war knew where to find Tutanchamun and then dies and we had to wait for Carter... maybe one of the killed was a skilled musician and destined to fill up concerthalls around the world were it not for that one bullet... so the scope of this conversation could be VERY wide. Marilyne PS: Dai, your answer is spot on !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddyO Posted 1 November , 2018 Share Posted 1 November , 2018 (edited) Yes because of the relative youth of combatants the list is probably shorter than one of those who went on to fame post war or of those relatives (mostly sons) of the famous who were killed. Interestingly I just learned that Oscar Wilde's son Cyril Holland was killed at Festubert in May 1915. Edited 1 November , 2018 by PaddyO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Maria Posted 1 November , 2018 Share Posted 1 November , 2018 (edited) My take on it is people who were 'famous' before the war . The problem being that like Basil Hallam , who was well known in 1916 , no one today has ever heard of them ! The only really famous people that are well known today are those who survived and went on to be famous like Ronald Colman . Then there are those killed whom the war made famous at the time like Albert Ball and Richthofen but who were unknown before the war. Edited 1 November , 2018 by Black Maria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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