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Old 21-09-16, 02:22 PM
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Second Lieutenant James Douglas Herbert Farmer. Unit: 9th Battery, 41st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. CWGC family information: son of James Herbert and Edith Gertrude Farmer, of "Fairfield," Mundesley, Norfolk.
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Lieutenant (Temporary Captain) Allan O’Halloran Wright MID. Unit: Adjutant, 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Death: 13 March 1915 Killed in Action at Neuve Chapelle Western Front.
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Lieutenant Alexander Bissett McCrae MC. Unit: 5th Battalion, Scottish Rifles. Death: 17 September 1918 France Western Front.
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Second Lieutenant William Kelly Carmichael Ogg. Unit: 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Death: 15 July 1916, missing, aged 18, Somme, Western Front. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
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Old 21-09-16, 07:28 PM
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Default 2Lt. Farmer.

The date of death given is obviously wrong. He is in the uniform of a cadet at the Royal Military Academy (Woolwich) so maybe the date given was the day of his passing out parade.
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The date of death given is obviously wrong. He is in the uniform of a cadet at the Royal Military Academy (Woolwich) so maybe the date given was the day of his passing out parade.
I thought it was something of the sort...Thanks for your help.
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