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Various Officers....and a Private../79
© IWM (HU 120022)
Captain William Frederick Clarke. Army Cyclist Corps, attached to Manchester Regiment and then to General List. © IWM (HU 119843) Captain Leslie St Claire Cheape. 1st King's Dragoon Guards, attached to Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars (Worcester Yeomanry). Death: 23 April 1916 Killed in action Age 33 years Son of Col. G. C. Cheape,of Wellfield,Gateside,Fife,and Mrs. Cheape,of Bently Manor,Worcestershire. © IWM (HU 93515) LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN WILLOUGHBY SCOTT, 8 BATTALION, SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY. Lt Col Scott, the son of Sir John and Lady Scott, received his commission with the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars. He was commanding 8 Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry when he was killed in action, aged 38, on 23 April 1917. Lt Col Scott is buried at Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez. © IWM (HU 112844) Captain Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson. 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, attached to 1st Indian Cavalry Division. Later became General Sir Kenneth Anderson, serving in the Second World War. Death: 29 April 1959. © IWM (HU 119914) Lance Corporal Robert Locke Christie 604. "C" Company, 14th Battalion,(Birmingham Pals), Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Death: 30 July 1916, killed in action, Somme, Western Front.
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