28/6

1914

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

4/8

1914

Britain declares War on Germany

7/8

1914

The British Expeditionary Force arrives in France

8/8

1914

Ernest Shackleton sets sail from Plymouth aboard Endurance

14/8

1914

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Wright, AG

Home Guard - on protection duty

23/8

1914

Battle of Mons

Battle of Tannenberg - start

26/8

1914

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Shott, HH

Captain

1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment

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Sparenborg, HR

Captain

1st Battalion, The King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

Battle of Le Cateau

28/8

1914

First Battle of Heligoland Bight

30/8

1914

Battle of Tannenberg - end

15/9

1914

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Wissmann, JR

Lieutenant

Royal Field Artillery

20/9

1914

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Sweet-Escott, MR

Lieutenant

3rd Battalion, The King's Liverpool Regiment

7/10

1914

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Allason, LT

Captain

1st Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

15/10

1914

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Simpson, HZ

Assistant Paymaster

Royal Naval Reserve

19/10

1914

First Battle of Ypres begins

21/10

1914

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Reid, EB

Captain

1st Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment

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Harden, AH

Captain

2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

26/10

1914

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Wallace, HB

2nd Lieutenant

3rd Battalion, The King's Liverpool Regiment

29/10

1914

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Anderson, HL

Lieutenant Colonel

9th Bhopal Infantry, Indian Army

31/10

1914

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McDougall, DR

Private

1/14th (London Scottish) Battalion, London Regiment

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Morten, AM

Private

1/14th (London Scottish) Battalion, London Regiment

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Paterson, JA

2nd Lieutenant

2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment

1/11

1914

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Wansbrough, LBR

Engineer Lieutenant

Royal Navy

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Farquharson, JCL

Lieutenant

1/14th (London Scottish) Battalion, London Regiment

Battle of the Coronel Sea

3/11

1914

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de Cerjat, FMG

Trooper

East African Mounted Rifles

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