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13 July 1918 Spr Albert Edward Shuttleworth

254715 Spr. Albert Edward Shuttleworth, Royal Engineers Born in Accrington, Lancashire in 1895, Albert was living in Burnley – where he was employed as a machinist - by the time of his enlistment. Part...

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14 July 1918 Pvt. Clarence Crabtree died of wounds

Pvt. Clarence Don Crabtree, Co.M, 16th Infantry Regiment Clarence Crabtree was born on June 3rd 1896. He was a rancher from Indianapolis. He enlisted into the US Regular Army at Jefferson Barracks,...

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15th July 1918 Inf Lorenz Filchbacher

Inf. Lorenz Filchbacher, M.G.Komp. Kgl Bay.12. Inf. Regt. ‘Prinz Arnulf’ Lorenz Filchbacher was born at Kling, Bavaria in January 1896. He was a labourer. Herr. Filchbacher enlisted in 1915. He served...

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16 July 1918 Gefr Josepf Sänftl killed in action

Gefr. Josef Sänftl, 3.Komp, Kgl. Bayr. 1. Infanterie-Regiment ‘König’ Josef was a farmer from Kröning, Bavaria and a holder of the Iron Cross 2nd Class and the Bavarian Militärverdienstkreuz 3.Kl,...

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17 July 1917 L/Cpl. Ernest Ford killed in action

34817 L/Cpl. Ernest Ford, 18th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire in 1889, Ernest was living in Burnley, Lancashire at the time of his enlistment. An employee of the Burnley...

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18 July 1917 Sdt Henri Sneppe

The Sacred Hearts Boys School playground, St. Kruis, Bruge. c. 1900. (From the collection of The Sisters of the Childhood of Mary in Spemalie. Nieuwland). The Western Front Association remembers...

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19 July 1915 Efraím Salím killed in action

Cannakkale Memorial to the Turkish dead Piy. Efraím Salím, 3rd Bn, 27th Infantry Regiment, Turkish Army Efraím Salím was from Karahamzalar, Balikesme, Turkey. He was called into the army in late 1914....

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20 July 1915 Sdt 2 Cl Jean Claude Lasselot killed in action

322 Sdt.2.Cl. Jean Claude Lasselot, 22e Bataillon de Chasseurs-Alpins Born at Creusot, Saône et Loire on 15th February 1890, Jean had only just completed his compulsory military service at the time of...

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21 July 1917 nf. Markus Nirschl killed in action

Inf. Markus Nirschl, 12.Komp. Kgl.Bayr. Res.Inf.Regt. 17 Markus Nirschl was born in 1888. He was a shopkeeper from Göttersdorf, Bavaria,  He re-enlisted as a reservist in the August of 1914. He saw...

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22 July 1918 Burchard Lanslot McClain killed in action

Cpl. Burchard Lanslot McClain, 16th Infantry Regiment Born at Lebanon, Boone County, Indiana on 6th November 1892, McClain was an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and living in Hendricks...

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23 July 1918 Sgt Frank Michnievitz

Sgt. Frank Michnievitz, Co.F, 7th Infantry Regiment. Frank Michnievitz was born in Poland on July 2nd 1896. He emigrated to the USA as a 17 year old in 1913. He got a job with the American Bridge...

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24 July 1915 Gefr Johann Kanter

Gefr. Johann Kantner, 12.Komp. Kgl. Bayr. Landwehr Inf. Regt. Nr. 15   Johann Kanter was born in 1880. He was from Holzham, Bavaria, A Landwehrmann at the time of the outbreak of war, he saw action in...

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25 July 1918 Bugler Early Barcus died when his hospital was bombed

Bugler Earl R. Barcus, Batt.A, 150th Field Artillery Regt.   Earl was born on August 19th 1897. He was from Indianapolis. He was educated at Bunker Hill Military Academy, Illinois and became a shipping...

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26 July 1918 Pion George Kaiser died of his wounds

Pion. Georg Kaiser,  Kgl.Bayr.Pionier Komp. (exact unit unknown)   Georg Kaiser was born in Bavaria in 1895. From late 1916 he served on the Western Front. On 18th July 1918, while serving in the...

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27 July 1917 Franz Martin Bischofberger

Oberjäger Franz Martin Bischofberger, K.K. Kaiserschutze. Rgt. Nr. 2   Franz Bischolgberger was born on 18th July 1881. He was a boiler-stoker from Dornbirn, South Tyrol, Austria. A recalled reservist...

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28 July 1918 Pvt. Edward Osborne killed in action

Pvt. Edward Harry Osborne, Co.H, 167th Infantry Regt.   Edward Osborne was born in Butler Township, Franklyn County, Indiana on November 16th 1886. He was a farmer. On 22nd September 1917 he enlisted...

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29 July 1914 Strij Dusan I Donovic, killed mining the Sivas Bridges

Strij. Dušan I. Đonović , Tankosićevog odreda (Tankosićevo Detachment), Serbian Četnik Forces     Dušan I. Đonović was born in Montenegro in 1898. He was a commercial college student. With the...

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30 July 1918 Josef Anton Ruf died after incarceration

Jäger Josef Anton Rüf,  1. Rgt. d. Tir. K.J.    Josef Rüf was born on 28th August 1884. He was tailor from Dornbirn, Austria, He'd completed his compulsory military service in the first decade of the...

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31 July 1917 Inf. Sebastian Scheugenpflug

Inf. Sebastian Scheugenpflug, Kgl.Bayr.Res.Inf.Regt.17   Sebastian Scheugenpflug was born in 1894 He was a grocer from Lengthal, Bavaria. A recalled reservist in August 1914, he first saw action during...

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1 August 1916 Inf Oswald Rappl died of his wounds

Inf. Oswald Rappl, 10.Komp. Kgl. Bay. 3. Inf.Regt. ‘Prinz Karl von Bayern’ Oswald Rappl was born on 5th August 1894.  He was from Ruhpolding, Bavaria. Already a serving soldier at the time of the...

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