The Stories

From Small Heath, served in France as part of the Labour Corps returning and dieing in Birmingham 1917

Served as a Distribution Clerk for the newly formed Women's Royal Air Force

Nurse, died of Influenza in 1918

From Otago Regt who fought at Suez, Gallipoli, Somme, Messines, Third Ypres and battles of 1918

Injured and died in the first weeks of the Battle of the Somme

Served with at the First Southern General Hospital, based at the University of Birmingham

Worked in the tunnelling corps which dug under enemy defences

Fought and was injured at Passchendaele

Served as Private George Vaughan in the 2nd Batallion Royal Scots

Australian Airman, born and buried in Birmingham

Under age when he joined, and when he died

Served as part of the Royal Defence Corps

Part of the 30th Battalion fighting against a young Adolf Hitler at Fromelles where many young Midlands and Australian soldiers died.

One of the first to fight in the New Zealand Maori Contingent serving at Gallipoli

Died from his wounds on 11^th November 1917, the day after the Battle of Passchendaele had ended

Wounded in action during the Somme on 22 July 1916. He suffered a gunshot wound to the right ankle and thigh.

Enlisted into the Labour Corps, died from wounds 1917

Served in the New Zealand Field Artillery