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61 relations: Alexander Cobbe, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Étaples Military Cemetery, Battle of the Somme, Brandhoek Military Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, Canadian National Vimy Memorial, Canche, Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram, Coldstream Guards, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Cross of Sacrifice, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Edgar Rennie Bowring, Epigraph (literature), Fabian Ware, Ferdinand Foch, Frank Fox (author), Frederick Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby, Genoa Conference (1922), George V, Grenadier Guards, Herbert Baker, Hodder & Stoughton, James Allen (New Zealand politician), Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, Last Post, Lord Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marne (river), Mary of Teck, Menin Gate, Napoleon, New York World, Nieuwpoort, Belgium, Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau, Notre Dame de Lorette, Oise (river), Ossuary, Padishah, Peter Charles Larkin, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, Quest, Roman Catholic Diocese of Amiens, Royal Army Service Corps, Rudyard Kipling, Somme (river), Stone of Remembrance, T. S. Eliot, The National Archives (United Kingdom), The Times, ..., The Waste Land, Tyne Cot, William G. S. Cadogan, Wiltshire, World War I, Ypres, Ypres Salient, Ypres Town Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery and Extension, Yser, Zeebrugge, Zeebrugge Raid. Expand index (11 more) »
Alexander Cobbe
General Sir Alexander Stanhope Cobbe (6 June 1870 – 29 June 1931) was a senior British Indian Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Australian National University (ANU) to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's history.
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Étaples Military Cemetery
Étaples Military Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Étaples, near Boulogne on the north-west coast of France.
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Battle of the Somme
The Battle of the Somme (Bataille de la Somme, Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and France against the German Empire.
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Brandhoek Military Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
Brandhoek Military Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of the First World War located in Vlamertinge in Belgium on the Western Front.
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Canadian National Vimy Memorial
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial is a war memorial site in France dedicated to the memory of Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed during the First World War.
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Canche
The river Canche (Dutch: De Kwinte) is one of the rivers that flow from the plateau of the southern Boulonnais and Picardy, into the English Channel.
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Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram
Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram, (5 July 1873 – 3 September 1960) was a British Army officer and court official.
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Coldstream Guards
The Coldstream Guards (COLDM GDS) is a part of the Guards Division, Foot Guards regiments of the British Army.
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars.
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Cross of Sacrifice
The Cross of Sacrifice is a Commonwealth war memorial designed in 1918 by Sir Reginald Blomfield for the Imperial War Graves Commission (now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission).
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David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (17 January 1871 – 11 March 1936) was a Royal Navy officer.
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Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, (19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928), was a senior officer of the British Army.
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Edgar Rennie Bowring
Sir Edgar Rennie Bowring (17 August 1858 – 23 June 1943) was a Newfoundland businessman and politician.
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Epigraph (literature)
In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component.
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Fabian Ware
Major General Sir Fabian Arthur Goulstone Ware (17 June 1869 – 29 April 1949) was the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission, now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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Ferdinand Foch
Marshal Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch (2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929) was a French general and military theorist who served as the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War.
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Frank Fox (author)
Sir Frank James Fox (1874–1960) was an Australian-born journalist, soldier, author and campaigner, who lived in Britain from 1909.
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Frederick Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby
Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby, (16 September 1867 – 20 October 1935) was a British soldier and courtier.
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Genoa Conference (1922)
The Genoa Economic and Financial Conference was a formal international conclave of 34 nations held in Genoa, Italy from 10 April to 19 May 1922.
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George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
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Grenadier Guards
The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is an infantry regiment of the British Army.
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Herbert Baker
Sir Herbert Baker (9 June 1862 – 4 February 1946) was an English architect remembered as the dominant force in South African architecture for two decades, and a major designer of some of New Delhi's most notable government structures.
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Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.
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James Allen (New Zealand politician)
Sir James Allen (10 February 1855 – 28 July 1942) was a prominent New Zealand politician and diplomat.
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Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy
Field Marshal Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, (11 September 1862 – 6 June 1935) was a British Army officer who served as Governor General of Canada, the 12th since Canadian Confederation.
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Last Post
The "Last Post" is either a B♭ bugle call within British infantry regiments, or an E♭ cavalry trumpet call in British cavalry and Royal Regiment of Artillery (Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Artillery), and is used at Commonwealth military funerals, and ceremonies commemorating those who have been killed in war.
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Lord Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice
Charles George Francis Mercer Nairne Petty-Fitzmaurice MVO (12 February 1874 – 30 October 1914) was an English soldier and courtier.
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Marne (river)
The Marne (la Marne) is a river in France, an eastern tributary of the Seine in the area east and southeast of Paris.
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Mary of Teck
Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India as the wife of King George V. Although technically a princess of Teck, in the Kingdom of Württemberg, she was born and raised in England.
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Menin Gate
The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing is a war memorial in Ypres, Belgium, dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose graves are unknown.
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Napoleon
Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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New York World
The New York World was a newspaper published in New York City from 1860 until 1931.
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Nieuwpoort, Belgium
Nieuwpoort (West Flemish: Nieuwpôort) (French: Nieuport) is a municipality located in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, and in the Flemish province of West Flanders.
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Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau
Noël Édouard Marie Joseph, Vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (24 December 1851 – 19 March 1944) was a French general in World War I. He represented the militant Catholic element in the French Army, and headed the Féderation Nationale Catholique.
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Notre Dame de Lorette
Notre Dame de Lorette, also known as Ablain St.-Nazaire French Military Cemetery, is the world's largest French military cemetery.
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Oise (river)
The Oise is a river of Belgium and France, flowing for from its source in the Belgian province of Hainaut, south of Chimay.
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Ossuary
An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains.
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Padishah
Padishah, sometimes rendered as Padeshah or Padshah (پادشاه, padişah) is a superlative sovereign title of Persian origin, composed of the Persian pād "master" and the widespread shāh "king", which was adopted by several monarchs claiming the highest rank, roughly equivalent to the ancient Persian notion of "The Great" or "Great King", and later adopted by post-Achaemenid and Christian Emperors.
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Peter Charles Larkin
Peter Charles Larkin, (May 14, 1855 – February 3, 1930), was a Canadian businessman, diplomat, and political patron.
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Prince Maurice of Battenberg
Prince Maurice of Battenberg, KCVO, (Maurice Victor Donald; 3 October 1891 – 27 October 1914) was a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the extended British Royal Family, the youngest grandchild of Queen Victoria.
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Quest
A quest serves as a plot device in mythology and fiction: a difficult journey towards a goal, often symbolic or allegorical.
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Amiens
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Amiens (Latin: Dioecesis Ambianensis; French: Diocèse d'Amiens) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France.
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Royal Army Service Corps
The Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) was a corps of the British Army responsible for land, coastal and lake transport, air despatch, barracks administration, the Army Fire Service, staffing headquarters' units, supply of food, water, fuel and domestic materials such as clothing, furniture and stationery and the supply of technical and military equipment.
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Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12 was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
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Somme (river)
The Somme is a river in Picardy, northern France.
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Stone of Remembrance
The Stone of Remembrance was designed by the British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens for the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC).
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T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".
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The National Archives (United Kingdom)
The National Archives (TNA) is a non-ministerial government department.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.
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The Waste Land
The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry.
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Tyne Cot
Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery and Memorial to the Missing is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of the First World War in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front.
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William G. S. Cadogan
Major The Hon. William George Sydney Cadogan MVO (31 January 1879 – 12 November 1914) was a British Army officer killed in the First World War.
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Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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Ypres
Ypres (Ieper) is a Belgian municipality in the province of West Flanders.
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Ypres Salient
The Ypres Salient is the area around Ypres in Belgium which was the scene of some of the biggest battles in World War I.
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Ypres Town Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery and Extension
Ypres Town Cemetery and Extension is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of the First World War located in Ypres, Belgium, on the Western Front.
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Yser
The Yser (l'Yser, IJzer) is a river that rises in French Flanders (the north of France), enters the Belgian province of West Flanders and flows through the Ganzepoot and into the North Sea at the town of Nieuwpoort.
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Zeebrugge
Zeebrugge (from: Brugge aan zee meaning "Bruges on Sea", Zeebruges) is a village on the coast of Belgium and a subdivision of Bruges, for which it is the modern port.
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Zeebrugge Raid
The Zeebrugge Raid on 23 April 1918, was an attempt by the Royal Navy to block the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
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