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This Day in History: 1915-05-17

BAKER. WILLIAM Age: 26 Private 12th (Prince of Wales’s Royal) Lancers Belgium ‘5868’

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Deaths - We will remember them: 1915 SURRIDGE. RAYMOND HENRY Age: 21 Private 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers United Kingdom '5175'; 1917 PURVES. ISAAC 38 Lance Corporal 16th (The Queen's) Lancers France 'L/5032'; 1944 VETTER. NORMAN Age: 28 Trooper H.Q. Sqn. 24th Lancers France '7910468'; 1944 WAGSTAFF. FRANK GORDON Age: 30 Trooper 24th Lancers. France '14339636'; 1944 TAYLOR. GEORGE ALFRED Age: 24 Lance Sergeant 24th Lancers. France '319743'; 1944 WAGER. ARTHUR CHARLES MANFRED Age: 20 Trooper 24th Lancers France '14232094'; 1944 SIMPSON. JOHN Age: 29 Trooper 24th Lancers France '7959728'; 1944 MANT. WILLIAM CHARLES HENRY Age: 28 Trooper 24th Lancers France '7937112'; 1944 HEARNAH. SYDNEY PERCIVAL Age: 35 Trooper 24th Lancers France '14409041'; 1944 GILLMAN. WILFRED JOHN Age: 24 Corporal 24th Lancers France '7894274'

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