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The last upload was July 2014.

Lieutenant G K Bailey uploaded July 2014
Private Arnold Atkins uploaded July 2014
Private William Anderson uploaded July 2014
Second Lieutenant Arthur Wright Bosworth uploaded July 2014
Private Percy Boorer uploaded July 2014
Second Lieutenant F C Aulagnier uploaded July 2014
Second Lieutenant Charles Robert Blackett uploaded July 2014
Surgeon L M Arnold uploaded July 2014
Captain A C Boon uploaded July 2014
Second Lieutenant Harold Armstrong uploaded July 2014
Private William John Black uploaded July 2014
Captain G A E Argo uploaded July 2014
Lieutenant E A Bingen uploaded July 2014
Private Henry John Andrews uploaded July 2014
Private A Birch uploaded July 2014

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Private John Henry Williams

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2 older comments, and then…
Willem said:
Forgotten after his parents died. It is so sad.
Chief Swim said:
May he rest in peace along with all who fell in that barbaric war to end all.
johncockcroft10@gmail.com said:
excellent ....ww1...the perfect photo old picture army guards remember who of family or friend. like them one picture
ekaterina alexander said:
Great glimpse into history, it deserves Explore!
Gary Donaldson said:
The CWGC shows him as 25249 Private John Henry Williams, 6th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, commemorated on Pier 2 Face C of the Theipval Memorial - listed amongst the missing whose bodies were never recovered from the battlefield.

During the summer of 1916, 6th(Service) Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment received training for some weeks in offensive operations in between front line duties in the Loos area. The Battalion was moved south with 112th Brigade, 37th Division, to take part in the Battle of Ancre in November 1916, the final act in the 5 months Battle of the Somme. There the Bedfords fought in and around Beaumont-Hamel. During an attack three days into the battle that was held up by unbroken belts of German wire, Private John Henry Williams lost his life in fighting on Thursday 16th November 1916, a freezing cold day, assaulting up a muddy valley east of Beaumont-Hamel as the 6th Bedfords tried in vain to reach and assault German positions on the ridge called Munich Trench.//

Lieutenant C O Alexander

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Watspoon said:
Lieutenant Charles Otway Alexander, born 1 January 1888 in Newark, Nottinghamshire, England. If taken during World War 1, this photo will not be past the summer of 1916, when Alexander was promoted to Lieutenant Commander. He eventually reached the rank of Rear-Admiral on 10 January 1939. Alexander died on 13 April, 1970, aged 82.

Lieutenant H E Van der Noot

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5 older comments, and then…
Arnham said:
Mentioned in the book: The Irish Guards In The Great War - Volume I - The First Battalion - 1918 - Arras To The Armistice by Rudyard Kipling. www.poetspoetry.com/stories/rudyard-kipling/the-irish-gua...
David - Edinburgh said:
He was MID in the LG 11/12/1917 pg 10226 : www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30434/supplements/13226
Gary Donaldson said:
Could he be the Captain (Temporary Major) Harold Edward Van Der Noot (43671), Irish Guards, listed in the Supplement to the London Gazette of 2nd June 1943? There is a Harold Edward Van der Noot (Irish Guards) listed amongst the Special Reserve Officers commissioned from Officer Cadet Units as 2nd Lieutenants on 28th November 1916 (London Gazette 11609 of 28 Nov 1916). His Commission is converted from Special Reserve to Regular as a Lieutenant with effect 29 Oct 1921, with Seniority backdated to 25 nov 1920 (London Gazette page 8611 of 28 Oct 1921), suggesting that he served on in the Irish Guards after 1919?//
chris (archie) allan said:
The son of Reverend Edgar Van der Noot, Priest in Ordinary to Her Majesty and Rector of Barley in the 1890s had a son, Maj Gilbert Edgar Francis Van der Noot of the Irish Guards, of Oak Cottage, Hartley Witney, co. Hampshire (d. 1981) He married Hon Barbara Mary Cockayne, only daughter. of Rt Hon Sir Algernon West, Baron Cullen of Ashbourne. There must be a connection
Gary Donaldson said:
Major Harold Edward Van der Noot's son, Colonel Christopher Harold Van Der Noot MBE (Late GORDONS), now a retired officer, himself twice Mentioned in Despatches (1973 and 1980), has kindly offered to provide some details of his father's service (in the New Year 2012).