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Manchester Regiment
1st Battalion
History
From The Manchester Regiment Gazette
Thailand-Burma Railway
Within a few days we received a very welcome surprise in the arrival of food and clothing from the South African Red Cross. The scale of issue was liberal, food consisting of tinned meat, meat and vegetable, peas, carrots, fruit, jam, biscuits, sugar, milk, cocoa, sweets, etc. There were also included approximately 70 cigarettes per man.
In the matter of clothing, we received a number of hats, boots, shirts and shorts, but as these were insufficient to warrant an issue to everyone, they were handed into the R.A.O.C. Clothing Store, and issued as necessary. The receipt of these gifts was indeed a boon and blessing to us all, especially from the point of view of our hospital patients, who were now assured of a fairly adequate supply of milk, a commodity which previously could seldom be procured. The supplies of food were issued to units for distribution. Certain items were issued individually, but in most cases, these stores were used economically; to help out the existing diet over a period of some, three or four weeks, to the great benefit of all concerned.
It was also in the month of August that the I.J.A. introduced a new pay code for officers. They were credited (on paper) with a sum roughly equivalent to British Army pay, but received only a small portion in actual cash, the remainder being banked (?). Small as these amounts were, they increased the amount of cash available for circulation in the camp. In addition, the officers introduced a scale of contributions to be made monthly from their pay to a fund for the care and welfare of hospital patients. Hospital patients, incidentally, were ineligible for the grant of "amenity pay" referred to previously, but with the introduction, of officers' contributions, they were enabled to receive a small sum regularly, each week with which to purchase cigarettes, etc.
During the month of October 1942, the I.J.A issued instructions for the transfer, of all fit PoWs (in Changi) to Thailand to take part in the construction of the railway. Every available fit man was taken. At this time approximately 450 officers and men of the Battalion were detached on working parties in Singapore, and of the remainder in Changi approximately 220 officers and men were selected to proceed to Thailand. They formed part of a composite working battalion composed of Loyals, Gordons, Manchesters and Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. About 80-100 sick officers' and men were to remain behind, the majority being hospital cases. We moved on the 27th October.
 The first stage was a journey in tightly packed motor vehicles from Changi PoW Camp to Singapore Railway Station. Prior to entraining, the Jap commander of the train delivered himself of the usual oration about behaving ourselves, sort of "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours''. We were then herded into closed goods trucks, the average number allotted to each truck varying from 32 to 35 men complete with kits, bedding, food containers, and any other stores we had managed to get through with us. The long trek had started. Our journey by train was to cover some 1000 miles from Singapore to Ban Pong, and would last five days and four nights. We were to appreciate what this meant long before we reached our destination. It was impossible to lie down and sleep. Rest could only be obtained by sitting on a kitbag or valise and just closing one's eyes. The feeding arrangements throughout this nightmare journey were indescribably bad, and sanitation arrangements did not exist.
We were indeed glad to reach Ban Pong, only to find we had hopped straight out of the frying pan into the fire. We were temporarily accommodated in a flooded staging camp. Conditions were filthy, and in all parts of the camp stagnant flood water was level with the sleeping platforms. Swarms of blow flies hovered about the camp, spreading disease and dirt. Our new Japanese, captors we soon discovered to be cruel and vicious. Much to our relief, we-moved on to Kanburi after two nights in this haven of '' bed and breakfast''. We stayed there one night and then moved on to Chungkai, some 5 kilometres further on. This camp was the headquarters of No. 2 P.O.W. Group, of which apparently we were to form part. The camp was pleasantly sited on the banks of the Kwai Noi river, and was adjacent to several kampongs (native smallholdings). Bathing was allowed, as also was the purchase of fruit, tobacco, etc., from native stalls, a great favourite being banana fritters served up on a banana leaf. The camp was about half completed when we arrived but the building programme continued. Our accommodation buildings were entirely constructed of bamboo frames covered by attap. The huts were some 100 metres long and about 8 metres wide. A sleeping platform of split bamboo ran the full length of the huts on both sides, each man being allotted about 30 inches of space. 450 men were accommodated in each hut. This was overcrowding to the nth degree. The huts were anything but weatherproof, as we very soon discovered, for a few days after our arrival we found ourselves in the middle of the rainy season. The river overflowed its banks and the camp flooded. Again we had the experience of sleeping with the water slowly rising beneath our beds. Half the men in our hut had to be evacuated, the water being some five or six feet deep at one end. These had to find temporary homes elsewhere, in the canteens, offices, tents, and in many cases out in the open, until the floods subsided. It will be readily understood that such conditions were entirely favourable to mosquito breeding, and in a very short time large numbers of men were down with malaria. We were eventually issued with a number of mosquito nets of a communal type, eight or more men being able to sleep under each, and, although there were insufficient to afford protection for everybody, they were very acceptable, and the incidence of malaria decreased considerably.
The men at this stage were reasonably fit and strong, and, as working hours were not unreasonable, found themselves quite up to their allotted task, the construction of the railway embankment. Slowly but surely, however, the Japs applied pressure and demanded greater efforts from us. Working hours became longer and the tasks more strenuous, and increasingly unbearable. The Japanese engineers were cruel and vicious in their general attitude to the prisoners. On one occasion, after an incident, the Battalion working party, under command of Major Buchan, downed tools and marched back to camp, followed by three more working battalions, The sentries just stood there helpless that we could ever do such a thing had probably never occurred to them. This was our second mass refusal to accept the Jap point of view. A third instance was to arise shortly afterwards when the officers refused to perform manual tasks. They all stood fast on parade and refused to go to work when the Japs ordered them to do so. The guards were immediately doubled, and with rifles loaded covered the parade while the Jap Commander read out the riot act, and informed them of the consequences which would follow any further refusal. True to Japanese form, he threatened collective punishment of the whole camp, reduction of rations, withdrawal of privileges, etc., and the officers had, perforce, to back down. This collective punishment was to prove a favourite Japanese method of coercion, and one against which we could never successfully compete, as in most cases it was always the sick men who would suffer if their threats were carried into execution. The welfare of the sick was always a sort of pistol to our heads, and in nearly every case of contravention of Japanese orders we had to bow our heads and accept the inevitable. An officers' working battalion thus came into being, their particular tasks being bridging and anti-malarial work. Our first death on the railway occurred on 20th December 1942, Pte. Walker, of "A" Company, succumbing to dysentery.
In January 1943 we moved farther up the line to Ban Kau, where we remained about six weeks. The work was the same, but becoming far more arduous, and the men were fast losing their reserves of energy. The incidence of malaria arose, and stomach complaints also became evident. It was in this camp that Major Buchan had yet another crack at the Japs, and he again marched his working party back to camp without permission. For this breach he was subjected to a most cruel and outrageous beating by the Japanese officer in charge of the railway engineers.
After a short rest period of three weeks, we carried on further up the line to assist No. 4 Group to complete their sector near Tarsoa. This task was completed in six weeks, and we were again on the move, this time on a hundred kilometre march to Tarkanun (206 Km.). There were no vehicles to transport us it was always a case of "shanks pony" and each party had to carry their essential baggage and cooking utensils. In May 1943 we eventually arrived at Tarkanun, which was to be the new H.O. of No. 2 Group. The only accommodation provided was a few leaky tents each capable of holding about 12 men in comfort. We had to cram about 30 men in each, which still left about 120 of our working party sleeping in the open under appalling weather conditions. The continuous heavy rains made our situation more uncomfortable and miserable than ever. Tents were useless, and the men began to erect little shacks of bamboo and grass to keep themselves dry. The food question was now very serious, our rations decreasing inversely with the lengthening of our supply line as we advanced along the railway. The roads were impassable owing to the heavy rains, and our lifeline was the river alongside which the railway was built. This river was in flood for long periods at a time, and it was often impossible for our ration barges to reach us. No fresh meat or vegetables were available, the diet now consisting of rice, dried meat or fish, dried vegetables and boiled water for drinking. Working hours increased to about twelve hours a day in all weathers, and the men visibly weakened. Spirits were beginning to flag, and the incidence of sickness and disease reached alarming proportions. Medical supplies, particularly quinine, were running very short, and there was no indication from the I.J.A. that any further supplies would be forthcoming. Malaria was rife, and exposure also began to tell its tale. Towards the end of May cholera broke out, and the death rate was very high. The epidemic was brought under control but broke out again later in July and August.
Work on sanitation was practically at a standstill, all fit men being taken by the Japs for work on the railway. Flies abounded everywhere and they did much to spread cholera and also dysentery. Jungle sores and ulcers began to appear, nearly everyone being affected. Scratches from bamboo and other jungle scrub became infected immediately and turned into very painful ulcers, for which there was no treatment other than bathing with hot water. There were no dressings or bandages. Lice, bugs and scabies were other scourges we had to contend with no remedies being available. As previously stated, we had started out in November 1942 as a mixed battalion of 650 officers and men. In July 1943, after our serious sick cases had been evacuated back to Chungkai from the several camps we had occupied, this number was reduced to approximately 180 officers and men. They proceeded yet further up the railway to Kran Krai. In October 1943, when the railway was completed, the number surviving from our original working party was 37!
At this point in our story we must revert back to Singapore. It will be remembered that we had left some 450 officers and men on working parties in Singapore. In April 1943 the Japs moved another 10,000 men from Singapore to Thailand for work on the railway. They were moved in of parties known as "F" and "H" Forces in 1943. A detachment of approximately 320 Manchesters, commanded by Major Hyde, formed part of this force. They proceeded to Thailand under much the same conditions as we had, and on arrival were greeted with a march of some 190 miles up the railway. The greater part of them were to work on the centre section of the line, in the vicinity of the Three Pagoda Pass, where the joining up of the Thai and Burma sections of line was due to take place. They suffered the same privations and hardships as we did, but whereas we had been gently broken in along the line, "F " and " H " Force, on completing their long march, were launched immediately into the same awful conditions to which we had gradually become accustomed. Major Hyde's party passed our camp at Tarkanun one night in May, and although we were penned in behind a bamboo fence, several contacts were made by those who were near to the road, and fortunate enough to be awake. This was the first we had heard or seen of those we had left behind in Singapore.
This party appeared to be fairly fit as they passed through, but within a very short time the privations of their long march and the primitive conditions of the jungle existence into which they were driven, began to take toll. As they arrived at their camp cholera broke out, and their casualties were colossal. It must be remembered that " F " and '' H '' Forces were operating some 100 kilometres farther up the line than we were; they were thus so much farther from their source of supplies. Sad as our plight was, that of Major Hyde and his men was far worse. They were without medical supplies, food was atrocious and insufficient to keep men going under Japanese " speedo " methods, and as men went down with sickness their rations were reduced. Men already suffering from deficiency diseases and starvation were helped into their graves by the deprivation of half their already meagre ration, a measure diabolical and barbaric in its very inception. Back in Tarkanun, we began to receive long casualty lists from Major Hyde's party, and we could appreciate the seriousness of their plight, but we did not receive complete lists, and it was not until some time later than we heard the true story of the calamitous fate which had befallen them. When they returned to Singapore in December 1943, one officer and two hundred and twenty-two N.C.O.s and men had died out of the original party:- over 70 per cent. In the Thailand Groups we had lost one officer and forty-eight other ranks out of some two hundred and fifty Manchesters who had worked on the railway - only 20 per cent. Among those who died was Major G. D. Cooper. He passed away on 26th June 1943 after a serious operation, and his death was a really big blow to us all. His cheery outlook and kindly and sympathetic treatment of the men had done such a lot to help us along our difficult way, and he was greatly missed by all.
The railway was completed in October 1943, and by December most PoWs had been returned to their base camps throughout Thailand. We returned to Chungkai. Conditions were now vastly different, food being more varied and plentiful and fresh meat and vegetables available. Cooking staffs were given unlimited scope, and their efforts to vary our diet with such delicacies as tamarind jam, marmalade (from limes), bread, coffee, fruit, eggs and cakes were commendable, and thoroughly appreciated by all. A real live canteen came into being, and we could now buy such things as soap, tooth powder, toffee, cakes, fried eggs and many other little items we had been deprived of for such a long time. Profits from this canteen were used to supplement hospital messing. Cigarette "factories" were also introduced, most of the tobacco being smuggled illegally into the Camp during the night by our very clever smugglers. Another ''delicacy'' which they illicitly brought into camp was Thai whiskey, which although of the "fire-water" vintage, was always in great demand. In the camp hospital, which contained some 2,500 patients, not including about 2,000 malaria patients who received outside treatment, every effort was made to alleviate the sufferings of the sick. Surgical appliances, operating tables, dentists chairs, and innumerable other items were made in the camp workshops, and special dietetic treatments were introduced. Funds for this purpose came from the Camp Central Fund to which all officers and men contributed. Approximately 4,000 blood transfusions were carried out in this hospital, a really remarkable achievement considering that the apparatus used carried the trade mark of Mr. Heath Robinson himself. The work of the medical staffs throughout the construction of the railway merits real praise. Their efforts to save life and ease pain in the face of severe handicaps and without equipment were, to say the least, wonderful and heroic. Many of us who still live have much to thank them for.
For the next six months we had a restful and recuperative existence, and there was plenty of sport and entertainment. Concerts, plays, band concerts, art's and crafts exhibitions, football, basketball, and cricket, etc, A very popular feature was our racing meetings. These - we had three - were organised by men who had had much experience in horse racing, and the meetings were exceptionally well run. The horses were men as also were the jockeys. A camp sweepstake was held on the main event and thousands of tickets were always sold. Horses were auctioned and sold with keen interest. Champion jockey at these meetings was Pte. "Tich" Hill of "C;' Company. The Manchesters were always on him to a man, and he proved a real money-spinner for us.
Even in this pleasant and happy state of affairs, death still stalked us. Men still died in large numbers from dysentery, beri-beri, malaria and malnutrition, the results of our terrible months on the railway. The camp cemetery, planned in December 1942 for 160 graves, now contained nearly 1,400.
In May 1944 we received our first issue of American Red Cross parcels. What luxuries! Spam, cheese, butter, bully beef, cocoa, coffee, jam and real Virginian cigarettes. Parcels were issued on a scale of one per six men, and they were the last Red Cross gifts we were to see until our liberation.
Death Roll
Thailand-Burma Railway
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Died
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Name
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Service/No
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1942/12/20
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Walker, Charles
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3529183
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1943/03/15
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Rogerson, John
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3534683
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1943/04/13
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Lee, Henry
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3526284
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1943/05/09
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Houghton, William
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3532931
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1943/05/17
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Woodbury, Joseph
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3528288
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1943/05/22
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Champion, John
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3529456
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1943/05/23
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Elford, Herbert
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3529631
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1943/05/24
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Boardman, Frank
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782196
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1943/05/25
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Birch, William
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3528790
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|
1943/05/25
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Chinn, James
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3525866
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1943/05/25
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Gerrard, George
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3533723
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1943/05/26
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Chadwick, Jack
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3528720
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1943/05/26
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Durham, Charles
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3528348
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|
1943/05/26
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Hanley, Harold
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4613915
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1943/05/26
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Heaton, Robert
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3533894
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1943/05/26
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Nolan, Patrick Peter
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3526623
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1943/05/27
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Hilton, Fred
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3534129
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1943/05/27
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Woodward, John
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3527662
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1943/05/27
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Gaskin, Arthur
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3528419
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1943/05/27
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Hinton, Charles
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3530312
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1943/05/27
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Sidlow, Frederick Arthur
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3524363
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1943/05/28
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Barber, Arthur
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3523637
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1943/05/28
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Walton, James
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3529752
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1943/05/29
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Rodan, William Percy
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3528718
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1943/05/29
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Axon, John
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3525605
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1943/05/29
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Connor, John Joseph
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3534735
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1943/05/29
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Greenwood, Stanley
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3534028
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1943/05/30
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Whyatt, Joseph
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3532166
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1943/05/30
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Smith, James Alfred
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4125490
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1943/05/30
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Rogers, William
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3532942
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1943/05/30
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Howarth, Herbert
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3532964
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1943/05/30
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Burke, William
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3528294
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1943/05/30
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Gregg, Allan
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3529075
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1943/05/31
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Langford, David
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3529595
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1943/05/31
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Straughair, Robert William
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3528874
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1943/05/31
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Raggett, Alfred
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3526943
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1943/05/31
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O'Marr, Cyril Charles
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3528185
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1943/05/31
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O'Garr, Cyril Charles
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3528185
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1943/05/31
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Lane, George
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2054067
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1943/05/31
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Kelly, Stanley
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3527617
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1943/05/31
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Malone, Peter
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3535938
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|
1943/06/01
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Barlow, Ernest
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3533995
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1943/06/01
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Walsh, David
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3530376
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|
1943/06/01
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Worthington, Thomas Henry
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3522483
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1943/06/02
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Bradford, Walter Francis
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4800131
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|
1943/06/02
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Thomas, William
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851137
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|
1943/06/02
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Stones, James Alfred
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3535946
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1943/06/02
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Lewis, William
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5048412
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|
1943/06/02
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Jaggers, Horace
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3529614
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|
1943/06/02
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Cox, Stanley
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3525934
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1943/06/02
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Holland, Arthur
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4746950
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1943/06/03
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Clayton, John Joseph
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3527995
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1943/06/03
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Flanagan, Michael
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3527762
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1943/06/04
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Gaida, John Frederick
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3532879
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|
1943/06/04
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Higgins, Thomas
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3528452
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|
1943/06/06
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Burgess, Leo
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3531371
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1943/06/07
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Gallagher, Joseph
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3534116
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|
1943/06/07
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Moss, Edward Richard
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3528347
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|
1943/06/07
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Prizeman, Frederick James
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3526564
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|
1943/06/08
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Brown, Jack
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3533726
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|
1943/06/08
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Ludbrook, Edward Ellis
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3528565
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1943/06/09
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Crichton, Ralph
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3528102
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1943/06/11
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Downes, Edward
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3528208
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1943/06/11
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Holroyd, Joseph
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3526818
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1943/06/12
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Reynolds, Edwin
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3526769
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1943/06/12
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Hewkin, Frank Wadsworth
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3529515
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1943/06/13
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Evans, Thomas (2)
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3527820
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1943/06/14
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Reid, Charles
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3529613
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1943/06/15
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Freer, Thomas
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3446742
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|
1943/06/15
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Maguire, John
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3533055
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1943/06/16
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Bolton, John Bernard
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3529726
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1943/06/17
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Darlington, William
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3528089
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|
1943/06/18
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Glass, George Edgar
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3526486
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1943/06/19
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Davies, John
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3527196
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|
1943/06/19
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Edwards, Albert
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3535877
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|
1943/06/20
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Fluck, John Thomas
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3526649
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|
1943/06/21
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Ball, Lawrence Bradman
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3534126
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|
1943/06/22
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Cassidy, James
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3526926
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|
1943/06/23
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Taylor, Arthur
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3527601
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|
1943/06/23
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Bimson, George
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3526058
|
|
1943/06/23
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Pemberton, Francis
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3529435
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|
1943/06/26
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Cooper, Geoffrey Danvers
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18843
|
|
1943/06/26
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Leathwhite, Victor Oliver
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3534662
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|
1943/06/27
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Bebbington, William Yarwood
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3525822
|
|
1943/06/27
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Stewart, Bernard
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3529329
|
|
1943/07/01
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Rogers, Aaron
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3530087
|
|
1943/07/02
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Baxter, Arnold
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3533260
|
|
1943/07/03
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Kirk, Joseph
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3534643
|
|
1943/07/03
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Collins, David John
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3530377
|
|
1943/07/03
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Dimelor, Arthur
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3528206
|
|
1943/07/05
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Fallows, Ernest Ben
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3534659
|
|
1943/07/06
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Graham, Allan Beatham
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3526683
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|
1943/07/10
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Hall, Stanley
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3526624
|
|
1943/07/11
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Broad, William
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3530014
|
|
1943/07/11
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Knight, Cyril Reginald
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3529774
|
|
1943/07/12
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Beresford, Albert
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3531139
|
|
1943/07/13
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Yarwood, Robert
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3534709
|
|
1943/07/13
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Houghton, John
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3525406
|
|
1943/07/13
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Robinson, William
|
3527588
|
|
1943/07/14
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Hall, Albert
|
3530911
|
|
1943/07/16
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Rogers, Thomas William
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3530483
|
|
1943/07/17
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Denton, Richard
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3521848
|
|
1943/07/18
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Dalton, Ernest
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3531435
|
|
1943/07/19
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Cooke, Thomas Henry
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3534651
|
|
1943/07/20
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Gibb, Donald
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3533938
|
|
1943/07/20
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Kilgarriff, Bernard
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3533874
|
|
1943/07/21
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Jackson, Fred
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3534048
|
|
1943/07/22
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Harris, Frederick George
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3527653
|
|
1943/07/24
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Wren, William
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3528919
|
|
1943/07/25
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Rowbotham, John William
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3520107
|
|
1943/07/25
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Love, Cyril
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3527527
|
|
1943/07/26
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Evans, Thomas
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3529234
|
|
1943/07/26
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Garner, Harold
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3534681
|
|
1943/07/26
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Murphy, Maurice Joseph
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3529695
|
|
1943/07/27
|
Trevor, Kenneth
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3533947
|
|
1943/07/28
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Hall, Clifford
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3533002
|
|
1943/07/31
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Jennings, Harold
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3534824
|
|
1943/07/31
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Bamforth, Herbert
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3529822
|
|
1943/08/01
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McCarthy, William
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3954300
|
|
1943/08/01
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Saterley, John Frederick
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3528422
|
|
1943/08/02
|
Fielden, John
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3536024
|
|
1943/08/04
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Podmore, William Albert
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3533005
|
|
1943/08/05
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Cartwright, John
|
3525912
|
|
1943/08/05
|
Davenport, Thomas
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4125064
|
|
1943/08/05
|
Kelly, Thomas Edward
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3533758
|
|
1943/08/06
|
Dando, Ernest
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3525720
|
|
1943/08/07
|
O'Reilly, George
|
3533999
|
|
1943/08/07
|
Morrisey, James
|
3526771
|
|
1943/08/07
|
Harrison, William
|
3524539
|
|
1943/08/07
|
Dodd, Henry
|
3526413
|
|
1943/08/08
|
Rudd, Albert William
|
3530394
|
|
1943/08/09
|
Cope, Arthur
|
3526875
|
|
1943/08/11
|
Crimes, Thomas William
|
3534021
|
|
1943/08/11
|
Gregg, Frank
|
3528293
|
|
1943/08/11
|
Milburn, John
|
3526684
|
|
1943/08/12
|
Haste, John Frederick
|
3534648
|
|
1943/08/13
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Benz, William
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3536013
|
|
1943/08/13
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Prudan, Raymond
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3527580
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1943/08/14
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Barcroft, Arthur Weaver
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3526628
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1943/08/15
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Pritchard, Sidney Allen
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3526893
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1943/08/15
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Webster, Bertie
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3526583
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1943/08/19
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Gallagher, Francis Angus
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3528337
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1943/08/20
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Smith, James
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3535969
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1943/08/22
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Watson, Thomas
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3524022
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1943/08/22
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Robinson, Harry
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3532950
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1943/08/23
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Cooney, Stephen
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3526890
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1943/08/23
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Townley, Harold
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3525986
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1943/08/23
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Walters, Stuart Vaughan
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3533953
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1943/08/24
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Brant, Harold Edwin
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3526576
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1943/08/25
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Clemmet, George
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3532956
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1943/08/25
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Eaton, Cornelius
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3530308
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1943/08/25
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Swinscoe, George Heald Fenton
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3528186
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1943/08/26
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Moorby, Harold
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3534661
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1943/08/27
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Royle, James
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3533836
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1943/08/27
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Cornwell, Leslie Corless
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3534668
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1943/08/27
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Gillighan, John Michael
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3534722
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1943/08/28
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Brown, Arthur
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3532988
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1943/08/28
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Clayton, James
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3533839
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1943/08/28
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Vallely, Robert
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3526953
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1943/08/29
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Dickens, Thomas
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3534672
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1943/08/29
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Goldstone, Bernard
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3535927
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1943/08/29
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Jones, William Alfred
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3532422
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1943/08/30
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Platt, John
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3528066
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1943/08/30
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Bennett, Thomas Frederick
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3529281
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1943/08/30
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Pike, Arthur Leslie
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3528741
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1943/08/31
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High, Alfred
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3534707
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1943/08/31
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Hudson, Arthur
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3529455
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1943/08/31
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Shaw, John
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3527746
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1943/09/01
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Isherwood, George Herbert
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93646
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1943/09/02
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Fish, James Ralph
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3528937
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1943/09/04
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Blount, Percy
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3526477
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1943/09/04
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Smith, Arthur
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3534640
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1943/09/04
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Evans, Benjamin
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3530348
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1943/09/04
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Hulley, Joseph Edward
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4612581
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1943/09/05
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Duckworth, Joseph
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3528508
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1943/09/05
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Hamilton, Harvey
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3534044
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1943/09/05
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Jackson, Thomas
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3529270
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1943/09/06
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Finney, John
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3534025
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1943/09/07
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Lee, Fred
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3526892
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1943/09/07
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Hargreaves, Harry Henry
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3529832
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1943/09/07
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Hallsor, Samuel
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3534646
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1943/09/07
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Lightfoot, Joseph
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3525868
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1943/09/08
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Dunham, Willard Fred
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3534658
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1943/09/09
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Pryce, George Edward
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3527643
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1943/09/10
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Cale, George
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3534632
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1943/09/11
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Malcolm, Robert Edward John
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3526952
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1943/09/12
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Hickey, Patrick
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3529437
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1943/09/12
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Howarth, John
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3529294
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1943/09/13
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Taylor, Frank
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3526394
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1943/09/14
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Hartley, Albert
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3534647
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1943/09/14
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Young, Herbert
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3534064
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1943/09/15
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Coombes, Albert Arthur Frederick
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3526852
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1943/09/17
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Henniker, James
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3528585
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1943/09/17
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Smith, Harold
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3532927
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1943/09/18
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Greenwood, Harold
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3534729
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1943/09/19
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Beech, Howard
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3533994
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1943/09/19
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Frisby, Leonard Ernest
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3527007
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1943/09/20
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Clarke, Robert Vernon
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3532996
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1943/09/20
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Riley, Frank Hugh
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3522940
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1943/09/20
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Mynett, John William
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3534742
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1943/09/21
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Parkinson, Edward
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3529601
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1943/09/21
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Stanton, Maxwell Taylor
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3528123
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1943/09/21
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Taylor, James
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3445333
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1943/09/21
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Thomas, Walter Leslie
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3526690
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1943/09/23
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Bennett, Arthur
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4124925
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1943/09/25
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Oxley, Charles Clifford
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3534635
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1943/09/26
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Bullard, Jack
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3529585
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1943/09/27
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Green, Thomas Charles
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3528631
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1943/09/28
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Barnes, John Stephen
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3534705
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1943/09/29
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Archdale, James
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3535904
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1943/09/29
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Diffin, David
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3527018
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1943/09/29
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Hardy, Fred
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3528270
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1943/09/29
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Nolan, Thomas
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3527187
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1943/10/01
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Berry, William Ernest
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3528955
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1943/10/01
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Markey, Robert
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3535899
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1943/10/03
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Forster, Norman
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3534113
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1943/10/03
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Pruden, Cecil Peter
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3530202
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1943/10/04
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Shaw, William
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3527858
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1943/10/06
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Mylchreest, John Alfred Denzil
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3525476
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1943/10/07
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Lane, Wilfred
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3523834
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1943/10/08
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Crowther, Fred
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3528299
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1943/10/09
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Hough, George Arthur
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3527674
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1943/10/10
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Baybutt, Ernest
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3529192
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1943/10/11
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Vaughan, James
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3527115
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1943/10/11
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Bourne, Frank
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3530230
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1943/10/12
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Lee, Thomas
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3534698
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1943/10/13
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Richards, Austen Edward
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3533765
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1943/10/13
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Cairns, William
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3525579
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1943/10/14
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Gilbody, Thomas Edward
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3533791
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1943/10/14
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Jones, Andrew
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3528449
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1943/10/16
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Smith, Eric
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3533973
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1943/10/18
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Heslop, Herbert
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3526464
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1943/10/20
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Hefferan, John Stanley
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3526696
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1943/10/20
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Crompton, Joseph Henry
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3533019
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1943/10/23
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Churchill, Cyril Harry
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3526840
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1943/10/24
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Bartley, Maurice
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3528421
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1943/10/24
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Connor, Edward
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3529305
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1943/10/27
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Davis, Edward
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3535922
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1943/10/28
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McClurg, William Nathaniel
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3526949
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1943/10/30
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Hallows, Albert
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3523721
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1943/11/01
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Creighton, Samuel
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3527593
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1943/11/01
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McMillan, George William
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3527931
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1943/11/02
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O'Neil, Abraham
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4613869
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1943/11/05
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Chilton, Thomas
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3532970
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1943/11/06
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Beavan, Dennis
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3529493
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1943/11/10
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Bailey, Harry
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3531207
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1943/11/10
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Moores, Frank
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3527283
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1943/11/12
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Merry, Charles Norman
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3526124
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1943/11/13
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Bostock, Harry
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3529632
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1943/11/14
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Rowbottom, Thomas
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3528297
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1943/11/15
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Dyson, Fred
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3528227
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1943/11/16
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Forbes, Ernest
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3526387
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1943/11/16
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Griffiths, Cyril
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3528211
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1943/11/18
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Allison, Geoffrey Amos
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3530481
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1943/11/21
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Patten, James
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3528260
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1943/11/21
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Topper, Albert
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3385126
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1943/11/24
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Dowling, Dominic
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3534008
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1943/11/25
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Eddlestone, Frank
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3535923
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1943/11/26
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Taylor, Alan George
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3526216
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1943/11/29
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Spurling, William
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3535743
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1943/12/06
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Birkin, Arthur
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3527903
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1943/12/06
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Hallworth, Thomas
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3532993
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1943/12/06
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Harper, Wilfred
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3528082
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1943/12/08
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Bethell, Stanley
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3523132
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1943/12/10
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Roberts, Herbert
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3525943
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1943/12/10
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Walker, John
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3526919
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1943/12/23
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Ryan, John
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3527262
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1943/12/27
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Lambert, William
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3535646
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1943/12/28
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Taylor, James
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3527543
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1944/01/03
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Rudd, James
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3532965
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1944/01/06
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Brunt, Richard
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3525130
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1944/01/11
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Hughes, Alfred
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3529664
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1944/01/17
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Lucas, Thomas Tom
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3530192
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1944/01/30
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Johnson, William
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3526467
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1944/02/14
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Kelly, John
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3529769
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1944/03/13
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Hankinson, George
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3528829
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1944/03/19
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Myerscough, Arthur Frank
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3524843
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1944/04/07
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Foulkes, Reginald Ewart
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3526096
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1944/07/19
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Hensman, Arthur Charles
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3523737
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1944/07/31
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Ladley, James
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3533764
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1944/08/10
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Thomas, Alfred Leonard
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3530383
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1944/10/29
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Barstow, Joseph
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3533911
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1944/11/15
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Doughton, Lewis Arnold
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3529676
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1944/11/29
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Fenner, Leslie
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3534006
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1945/01/28
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Waugh, James Kenneth
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3528090
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1945/02/17
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Coan, James John
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3535648
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1945/05/07
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Lindsay, Gladstone
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3534663
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1945/06/03
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Taylor, Samuel
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3527536
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1945/08/08
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Thomas, Evan Thomas
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3525351
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