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The Wartime Memories Project - The Great War - Day by Day



 April 1917

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    Want to know more about of April 1917?


    There are:66 items tagged of April 1917 available in our Library

      These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War.




    Remembering those who died this day, of April 1917.

  • Pte. Robert Adair. 24th (Tyneside Irish) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
  • Pte. Frederick Barber. 8th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
  • Pte. Frederick Barber. 8th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
  • Pte. Charles Frederick Barham. 8th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Read their Story.
  • Sgt. Patrick William Berne. 15th (Central Ontario) Battalion Read their Story.
  • Pte. Charles Edgar Blackwell. 21st (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
  • Private Victor George Thomas Bray. 8th Battalion Royal Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Pte. John Brennan. Machine Gun Corps Read their Story.
  • Pte Joseph Briggs. 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
  • Pte. Lyle Whidden Bryson. 25th Bn. Canadian Infantry Read their Story.
  • Sgt. Edwin Bullock. 8th Btn. York & Lancaster Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte. George Burridge. 9th Btn. Royal Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Pte. H Cadden. 2nd/7th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Rgt. Read their Story.
  • Pte. Ebenezer Calderwood. 25th Tyneside Irish Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Pte. John Carrick. 1st Btn. Gordon Highlanders Read their Story.
  • Lcpl. Jas. Case. 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
  • Pte. James Thew Caskey. 22nd Battalion (Tyneside Scottish) Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Cpl, Charles Henry Robert Chapman. 6th Btn. Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte. Ernest Arthur Clark. 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers
  • Pte. Thomas Henry Clarke. 6th Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story.
  • Pte. Herbert Cook. 12th Battalion, D Coy. London Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte. Albert Cooper. 1st Battalion. D Company East Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte. George Gregory Crick. 7th Btn Norfolk Regiment
  • Pte. Frederick Alexander Dayer. 8th Batallion Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt) Read their Story.
  • L/Cpl. Charles "Scotty" Dennis. 1st/9th Btn Royal Scots (Lothian) Regiment Read their Story.
  • Sgt. Leonard Hardy Denyer. 6th (Service) Battalion West Surrey Regiment
  • Pte. Nicholas Donnelly. 26th (Tyneside Irish) Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Pte. Allan Daniel Dunoon. 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles Read their Story.
  • Pte. Charles Godfrey Erswell. 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
  • Gunner Leonard Foster. A Battery Royal Field Artillery
  • 2nd Lt. Oswald Campbell "Fraser" Fraser. 9th Btn. Black Watch Read their Story.
  • Pte. Thomas Gabbitas. 1st Btn. King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) Read their Story.
  • Pte Matthew Gardner. 8th Btn Kings Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment
  • Pte. Richard Garley. 5th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders Read their Story.
  • Pte. Henry Gee. 24th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Pte. Henry Gee. 24th (1st Tyneside Irish) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
  • Pte. Ernest Gibson. 11th Btn. Sherwood Foresters Read their Story.
  • Pte. John Gilchrist. 1/8 Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Read their Story.
  • Private Robert Stephenson Gould. 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte. Arthur Gregg. 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters
  • Lpcl. Tom Grieve. 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Pte. Edwin Heywood. 9th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story.
  • 2nd Lt. Edmund John Hibbard. 12th (The Rangers) Btn. London Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte. Norman Hornsey. 21st (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
  • Second Lieutenant George Rowland Howson. 1st Battalion Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regt Read their Story.
  • Pte. Percy Humphries. 11th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte. Charles Joseph Jackett. Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire) Regiment
  • Cpl. Elias A. Jones. 4th Btn Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Sgt. William Dunstan Kemp. 2nd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment Read their Story.
  • Cpl. Harold Vincent King. 12th (The Rangers) Btn. London Regiment
  • Gavin Lambie. 10th Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Read their Story.
  • Pte. John Larkin. 2nd Btn. Royal Scots Read their Story.
  • Pte. George Arthur Lay. 23rd (Tyneside Scottish) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Rfmn. Henry Lewis. 1st Btn. Rifle Brigade Read their Story.
  • Pte. John MacKay. 13th Btn. Royal Scots Regiment
  • Pte. William B. Mahy. 47th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Pte. Edward Marram. 5th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
  • Pte. George Wardlaw Marwick. 13th Btn. Royal Scots
  • Pte. T. Maslen. 2nd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment
  • QMS. William Johnston Matthew. 11th Btn Royal Scots Read their Story.
  • Sgt. Robert McCartney. 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • L/Cpl Duncan McIntosh. 6th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders Read their Story.
  • Pte. William McItterick. 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • L/Cpl. Philip Patrick McMahon. 9th Service Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
  • Pte. William Middleton. 6th Btn. Gordon Highlanders Read their Story.
  • Cpl. William Granthan Millen. 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte. William Johnstone Milne. VC 16th Btn. Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment) Read their Story.
  • Pte. Alfred Edward Morton. 2nd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte. Alfred Edward Morton. 2nd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte. Thomas Murty. 27th (Tyneside Irish) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
  • L/Cpl. Benjamin Newham. 2/5th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte. Harry Alexander Nobbs. 11th Btn. Middlesex Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte. John William Norris. 2nd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment
  • 2nd Lt. William Joseph "Tomsie" O'Malley. 47th Divisional Trench Mortar Battery Royal Artillery Read their Story.
  • Sgt. Stephen ONiell. 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Cpl. Sidney Parker. 10th Btn. A Coy. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Pte. James Arthur Parton. 9th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment
  • Cpl. Alexander Potter. 9th (Service) Battalion Black Watch Read their Story.
  • Pte. Henry Wellington Rasche. 10th Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
  • Pte. William Henry Reed. 2nd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment Read their Story.
  • Sgt. James Rennie. 129th Battalion Read their Story.
  • Pte. Walter William Revell. 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment Read their Story.
  • L/Cpl. James William Revill. Royal Engineers Read their Story.
  • Pte. Robert Risk. 1/8th Btn. Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders Read their Story.
  • Pte. Gerald W Robinson. 13th (Kensington) Btn. London Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte. Wilfred Rust. 8th Btn. Suffolk Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte. Russel Bernhardt Salzmann. 9th Btn. Essex Regiment Read their Story.
  • Pte. Frederick Sample. 8th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story.
  • Private Joseph McKnight Scott. 6th Battalion Gordon Highlanders Read their Story.
  • Pte. William Henry Sharpe. 7th Btn. Read their Story.
  • L/Sgt. Ellis Welwood Sifton. VC 18th Btn. (Western Ontario Regiment). Read their Story.
  • Pte. George Brown Smith. 6th Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers Read their Story.
  • Pte. George Henry Spicer. 11th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
  • Pte. Hudson Stephenson. 27th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
  • Pte. George Sutherland. 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Pte. James Neil Sutherland. 8th Btn. Black Watch Read their Story.
  • Cpl. William Francis Sutherland. 6th Btn. Gordon Highlanders
  • Capt. Hubert John Tanner. 1st Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
  • Pte. David R Thomson. 12th (Service) Btn. Highland Light Infantry
  • Pte. David R Thomson. 12th Btn. Highland Light Infantry
  • Pte. George Toner. 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Pte. William B. Triggs. 13th Btn. Kings Regiment (Liverpool)
  • Pte. James Nutall Watson. 5th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders Read their Story.
  • L/Cpl Victor H Watts. 8th Battalion, 12th Division Royal Fusiliers
  • Pte. George Fredrick West. 10th Battalion Royal Fusiliers
  • Pte. William West. 5th Btn. Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Read their Story.
  • Pte. Alexander White. 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Pte. Alexander Wilkie. 11th Btn. Royal Scots
  • Pte. John Whyte Willocks. A Coy. 12th Btn. Highland Light Infantry Read their Story.
  • Pte. Robert York. 9th Btn. Royal Fusiliers Read their Story.

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