RFA West Lancs Bdes
After the Armistice
Different people and organisations use different dates to record the end of the War. For some, it’s the end of hostilities on 11 November 1918. For others, it’s the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers, on 28 June 1919. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records deaths in uniform between 4 August 1914 and 31 August 1921. This latter date is chosen as it is just after the date when the United States concluded a separate peace with Germany (the Treaty of Berlin, 25 August 1921).
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Several of these men succumbed to the influenza pandemic, some to the other big killer of the time - consumption. Some returned to work and died of causes unrelated to their War service.
1918
681271 Bdr Arthur Stanley Harvey, 17 November 1918
681028 Dvr George Ditchfield, 18 November 1918
680254 Gnr John Cannon, 18 November 1918
695256 Dvr Richard Howcroft, 24 November 1918
682038 Gnr Horace Josiah Westwood, 27 November 1918
681796 Dvr Arthur Andrew Craig 5 December 1918
680508 Gnr Ernest Sutton, 5 December 1918
680568 Dvr William Moulding, 6 December 1918
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1919
681679 Dvr Joseph Thomas Edwards, 11 February 1919
681817 Dvr Henry Banks, 15 February 1919
680735 Cpl/Whl Philip Hankinson MM, 2 March 1919
681335 Gnr William Bradley, 4 March 1919
680961 Gnr Laurence Henry Roberts, 12 March 1919
680645 Gnr-S/s Cuthbert Harry Bradshaw, 25 March 1919
680201 Bdr James Hothersall, 14 April 1919
680852 Gnr John Brierley, 17 April 1919
680229 Dvr Thomas Swift, 24 April 1919
681010 Gnr Joseph Hanna MM, 25 April 1919
680395 Dvr William Harker, 23 July 1919
681323 Dvr Tom Bailey, 31 July 1919
681619 L/Bdr Arthur Haynes, 21 December 1919
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