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This is a full list of names of those men and women who gave their lives in the course of the First World War while contributing to the war effort, both at home and overseas.

The roll contains not only the names of soldiers who died on the frontline, but also men and women who were fatally injured in munitions factory accidents or during other duties such as nursing.

Surname	First name	Date of death	Rank	Service number	Regiment	Battalion etc
Dain	Sidney Edward	07/12/1918	Second Lieutenant		Royal Engineers	Postal Section
Dainty	William	21/08/1918	Private	39377	South Staffordshire Regiment	7th Battalion
Dale	George	31/10/1918	Private	PLY/19806	Royal Marine Light Infantry	Plymouth Division
Dale	Henry	1917		9838, later 18124	South Staffordshire Regiment	3rd Battalion
Dalloway	Joseph	27/10/1914	Serjeant	9202	The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)	1st Battalion
Dalton	James	30/05/1918	Private	40655	North Staffordshire Regiment	8th Battalion
Dancer	William	10/10/1918	Private	32615	King’s Own Scottish Borderers	1st/5th Battalion
Darbey	Albert Curwen	11/05/1917	Gunner	84874	Royal Garrison Artillery	229th Siege Battery
Darby	Albert Edward	17/08/1918	Private	203382	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/5th Battalion
Darby	Alfred	20/09/1917	Private	66609	Royal Fusiliers	26th Battalion
Darby	Egbert	09/08/1915	Private	9935	South Staffordshire Regiment	7th Battalion
Darby	Henry	30/09/1917	Private	38119	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd/6th Battalion
Darby	James William	01/07/1916	Private	2881	Royal Warwickshire Regiment	1st/8th Battalion
Darby	Joseph	25/09/1918	Private	15066	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Darby	Levi Joseph	21/03/1918	Serjeant	240839	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd/6th Battalion
Darley	Joseph	14/04/1918	Private	41872	East Yorkshire Regiment	11th Battalion
Darlington	Ernest Harry	26/03/1918	Serjeant	12756	South Staffordshire Regiment	4th Battalion
Davenport	John Thomas	11/05/1917	Private	240145	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Davenport	Samuel	06/12/1918	Private	15862	Cheshire Regiment	11th Battalion
Davenport	William	31/10/1917	Gunner	154413	Royal Garrison Artillery	233rd Siege Battery
Davenport (served as Rudge)	William Victor	07/02/1916	Private	9180	Dragoon Guards	6th (Carabiniers), attached to 1st Life Guards
Davidson	John	25/09/1915	Private	13823	Royal Welsh Fusiliers	8th Battalion
Davies	Alfred	08/05/1915	Private	9146	King’s Shropshire Light Infantry	2nd Battalion
Davies	Alfred	26/09/1917	Private	34335	Royal Welsh Fusiliers	10th Battalion
Davies	Arthur	30/10/1914	Private	4946	Dragoon Guards	6th (Inniskilling)
Davies	Arthur	03/10/1915	Private	9944	Cheshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Davies	Arthur	01/07/1916	Private	7865	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st Battalion
Davies	Arthur	16/07/1916	Private	15524	South Staffordshire Regiment	8th Battalion
Davies	Bertie or Burtie Edward	20/09/1917	Private	301180	Durham Light Infantry	12th Battalion
Davies	Christopher John	04/10/1917	Acting Bombardier	80020	Royal Field Artillery	“D” Battery, 94th Brigade
Davies	David	Unknown			Durham Light Infantry	12th Battalion
Davies	E.	Unknown			Royal Engineers
Davies	Edmund or Edward	10/07/1916	Private	20946	The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment	8th Battalion
Davies	Evan	21/03/1918	Lance Corporal	10652	Rifle Brigade	9th Battalion
Davies	F.	Unknown			South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Davies	Frederick	Unknown	Private		South Staffordshire Regiment
Davies	Frederick George	21/08/1918	Second Lieutenant		Royal Air Force	107th Squadron
Davies	Frederick Henry	09/06/1917	Rifleman	572700	London Regiment	1st/17th Battalion
Davies	G.	Unknown
Davies	George	27/05/1918	Private	76502	Durham Light Infantry	22nd Battalion
Davies	George Henry	01/10/1917	Private	8836	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Davies	Harry	25/11/1917	Private	35532, later 106907	Hampshire Regiment, later Royal Army Medical Corps and Labour Corps	2nd Labour Company, later 179th Company, attached to 41st Sanitary Section
Davies	Harry	29/05/1919	Private	106743	Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)	1st Battalion
Davies	Henry/Harry	13/10/1918	Gunner	687002	Royal Field Artillery	“B” Battery, 186th Brigade
Davies	Herbert	23/04/1917	Serjeant	9321	South Staffordshire Regiment	4th Battalion
Davies	J.	Unknown	Gunner		Royal Field Artillery
Davies	John	02/10/1916	Private	9256	South Staffordshire Regiment	7th Battalion
Davies	John Charles	22/09/1918	Lance Corporal	41624	Royal Berkshire Regiment	5th Battalion
Davies	John Henry	Unknown	Private		South Staffordshire Regiment
Davies	Joseph James	14/03/1917	Private	200630	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/5th Battalion
Davies	Kenneth	05/11/1918	Lieutenant		South Staffordshire Regiment	6th Battalion
Davies	L.	Unknown	Private		Royal Army Medical Corps	2nd/3rd (North Midland) Field Ambulance
Davies	Oliver	29/06/1918	Private	21791	South Wales Borderers	10th Battalion
Davies	P.	Unknown
Davies	Reginald Arthur	12/05/1917	Private	251076
Davies	Robert L.	1917	Gunner		Royal Field Artillery
Davies	Samuel	06/04/1916	Private	19623	Leicestershire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Davies	Samuel	13/05/1917	Gunner	94468	Royal Garrison Artillery	170th Siege Battery
Davies	Sidney C.	27/09/1917	Private	291983	Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)	1st/7th Battalion
Davies	Stephen	04/09/1916	Private	20879	Durham Light Infantry	11th Battalion
Davies	Thomas	05/11/1917	Serjeant	58684	Royal Field Artillery	66th Battery
Davies	Thomas James	06/12/1915	Private	13821	Dorsetshire Regiment	5th Battalion
Davies	Thomas William	05/03/1916	Lance-Corporal		Durham Light Infantry	12th Battalion
Davies	Wilfred Thomas	Unknown
Davies	William	Unknown	Private		South Staffordshire Regiment
Davies	William Edward	28/07/1918	Private	285259	Seaforth Highlanders	8th Battalion
Davies	William Edwin	29/09/1916	Corporal	309	Royal Warwickshire Regiment	16th Battalion
Davies	William Frank	15/07/1916	Private	17957	Leicestershire Regiment	8th Battalion
Davies	William Gerald	08/08/1918	Private	183136	Canadian Infantry	“A” Company, 25th Battalion
Davies	William Henry	02/03/1918	Lance Corporal	G/5890	Royal Sussex Regiment	2nd Battalion
Davies	William J.	09/09/1916	Gunner	99868	Royal Field Artillery	“V” 2nd Trench Mortar Battery
Davis	Albert	13/09/1918	Private	92812	London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)`	2nd/2nd Battalion
Davis	Cecil Harry	13/10/1917	Lance Corporal	43036	South Staffordshire Regiment	8th Battalion
Davis	Edmund	26/09/1916	Private	26602	The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment	1st Battalion
Davis	Ernest Percival	13/11/1918	Driver	32997	Royal Field Artillery
Davis	George	Unknown
Davis	George Albert Edward	01/07/1917	Private	241378	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Davis	J.	Unknown
Davis	P.	Unknown
Davis	Roland	01/07/1916	Serjeant	11416	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st Battalion
Davis	Sidney James	11/10/1918	Private	32184	South Staffordshire Regiment	4th Battalion
Davis	W.	Unknown
Davis	William	13/10/1915	Private	2756	Leicestershire Regiment	1st/4th Battalion
Dawes	George Albert	19/12/1914	Private	10645	Coldstream Guards	3rd Battalion
Dawes	Sidney	08/08/1916	Private	18655	King’s Own Scottish Borderers	1st Battalion
Dawes	William	30/12/1917	Sapper	257561	Royal Engineers	96th Light Railway Operating Company
Dawson	Albert Sidney	16/05/1918	Private	240965	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Dawson	George Percy	25/01/1918	Driver	DM2/190447	Royal Army Service Corps	Mechanical Transport
Dawson	Stewart	28/12/1917	Lance Corporal	31233	Auckland Regiment	3rd Battalion
Day	Arthur Charles	08/11/1918	Gunner	204970	Royal Field Artillery	23rd Division Ammunition Column
Day	Edward	14/11/1914	Private	5930	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Day	James	05/11/1917	Private	M/316506	Royal Army Service Corps, attached to Royal Garrison Artillery	Mechanical Transport, attached to 286th Siege Battery
Day	James William or W. J.	06/11/1918	Private	34110	Yorkshire Regiment	13th Battalion
Deacon	Alfred	10/09/1915	Private	12650	South Staffordshire Regiment	8th Battalion
Deacon	F. or R.	Unknown
Deakin	A.	Unknown
Deakin	Thomas	08/09/1916	Private	11690	South Wales Borderers	1st Battalion
Dean	Ernest	10/04/1917	Private	235008	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/5th Battalion
Dean	Henry or Harry	07/05/1917	Private	36336	South Staffordshire Regiment	3rd Battalion
Dean	Sidney Arthur or Arthur Sidney	26/09/1919	Serjeant	59840	Leicestershire Regiment	14th Battalion
Dean	Thomas	24/10/1914	Private	9181	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st Battalion
Dean	William	25/01/1917	Private	20536	Worcestershire Regiment	9th Battalion
Deans	Joseph	30/09/1917	Gunner	152559	Royal Field Artillery	“B” Battery, 82nd Brigade
Deeley	Frank Stanley	12/09/1918	Able Seaman	Bristol/Z/10229	Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve	HMS “Sarnia”
Delany	Randolph Townsend	10/03/1915	Serjeant	6746	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Dench	Jack	16/06/1915	Serjeant	11170	Worcestershire Regiment	3rd Battalion
Denning	Joseph Henry	20/09/1915	Private	24740	South Wales Borderers	2nd Battalion
Deverell	Arnold Philip	13/10/1915	Corporal	106424	Royal Engineers	187th Tunnelling Company
Devereux	Thomas Cuthbert	18/04/1918	Driver	800670	Royal Field Artillery	24th Battery, 38th Brigade
Devey	Joseph	25/09/1915	Private	1861	Welsh Regiment	2nd Battalion
Devey	Thomas	29/11/1919	Private	28520	North Staffordshire Regiment
Devine		Unknown	Private		Worcestershire Regiment
Devitt	Alan	02/06/1918	Second Lieutenant		Royal Air Force	65th Squadron
Dew	Ernest	24/04/1918	Private	G/19416	Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)	7th Battalion
Dews	Frederick Charles	12/04/1918	Private	270095	Durham Light Infantry	18th Battalion
Dibble	John Frederick	09/08/1916	Private	1823	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/5th Battalion
Dicken	Leonard	14/12/1918	Private	7/15649	South Wales Borderers	7th Battalion
Dicken	William	22/03/1918	Private	29504	Yorkshire Regiment	13th Battalion
Dickens	Alfred	03/10/1918	Private	241079	South Staffordshire Regiment	7th Battalion
Dickens	Charles	20/10/1914	Private	8499	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st Battalion
Dickenson	George	26/06/1918	Private	240964	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Dickenson	Joseph	12/12/1915	Private	3678	Hussars	14th (King’s)
Dickin	Joseph Henry	16/01/1917	Private	7290	Durham Light Infantry	1st/9th Battalion
Dickinson	Alfred	Unknown	Lance Corporal		Scottish Rifles
Dickinson	Henry or Harry	30/10/1917	Chaplain 4th Class		Army Chaplains’ Department, attached to London Regiment (Artists’ Rifles)	Attached to 28th Battalion
Dickinson	Thomas Arthur	01/07/1916	Second Lieutenant		South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Dicks	Albert Edward	20/02/1919	Battery Quartermaster Serjeant	676808, later 605883	Royal Field Artillery, transferred to Labour Corps	285th Brigade, transferred to 42nd Prisoner of War Company
Dickson	Norman	27/04/1915	Lieutenant		Australian Infantry	15th Battalion
Dillow or Dillon	Fred	13/08/1917	Private	40713	Bedfordshire Regiment	7th Battalion
Dimbylow	Henry B.	25/09/1915	Private	9651	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Diment	Percy William	22/05/1918	Private	421273	Royal Army Medical Corps	1st/3rd (North Midland) Field Ambulance
Dimmock	William Horace	23/06/1915	Private	13033	Royal Fusiliers	25th Battalion
Dixon	Bertram	20/09/1917	Private	57835	Cheshire Regiment	9th Battalion
Dixon	James Archer	17/08/1917	Private	242867	Royal Warwickshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Dixon	John Bertrand	21/07/1917	Private	49748	Cheshire Regiment	10th Battalion
Dodd	Alfred Thomas	19/11/1917	Private	30636	West Yorkshire Regiment and Labour Corps	22nd Labour Battalion and 19th Company
Dodd	Edwin Percy	05/04/1918	Private	50402	Lancashire Fusiliers	1st/7th Battalion
Dodd	Ernest Samuel	13/10/1915	Private	3811	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Dodd	John Richard	06/08/1918	Private	58994	West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own)	1st Battalion
Dodd	Samuel Henry	17/07/1916	Private	15475	Leicestershire Regiment	“D” Company, 6th Battalion
Dodd	William	Unknown	Private		Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
Doley	Rupert Percy	26/09/1917	Corporal	204565	Royal Scots Fusiliers	1st Battalion
Dolman	George Alfred	07/08/1915	Rifleman	R/6252	King’s Royal Rifle Corps	7th Battalion
Dolman	John Richard	08/10/1918	Private	51291	Lincolnshire Regiment	“D” Company, 2nd Battalion
Donington	George	16/11/1916	Private	25095	Lincolnshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Donlan	Michael	08/09/1916	Private	308304	The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)	1st/8th Battalion
Donlan	William	13/04/1918	Private	16743	Grenadier Guards	2nd Battalion
Donnelly	John	10/03/1915	Private	6002	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Donnelly	John Thomas	27/10/1914	Private	5987	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Doody	John	23/12/1915	Private	17707	Gloucestershire Regiment	8th Battalion
Dooley	James	11/10/1918	Driver	90751	Royal Field Artillery	“B” Battery, 54th Brigade
Dorrington	Charles Henry	09/08/1915	Private	11054	The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment	6th Battalion
Dorrington	William Albert	29/12/1915	Private	18682	King’s Own Scottish Borderers	1st Battalion
Doughton	George	18/08/1920	Gunner	188537	Royal Garrison Artillery
Doughty	Frank	18/04/1918	Private	106162	Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)	2nd/5th Battalion
Doughty	Harry James	12/10/1915	Private	319	Royal Army Medical Corps	2nd City of London Battalion
Doughty	John	29/10/1914	Private	7489	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Doughty	Joseph	01/08/1918	Corporal	302714	Royal Scots	1st/9th Battalion
Doughty	Joseph William	29/10/1918	Private	29560	Highland Light Infantry	9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion
Dovey	Albert Louis	04/10/1917	Private	24047	Northumberland Fusiliers	12th/13th Battalion
Dovey	Charles Edward	26/09/1917	Private	204566	Royal Scots Fusiliers	1st Battalion
Down	Reginald Harold	25/11/1917	Private	9810	Royal Fusiliers	9th Battalion
Downes	David Valentine	11/04/1917	Lance Serjeant	241076	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd/6th Battalion
Downing	J.	Unknown
Downing	Reginald Harold	04/10/1917	Private	24945	Machine Gun Corps	91st Company
Downs	Henry Edward	10/05/1917	Private	841	Lincolnshire Regiment	10th Battalion
Downs	Israel George	13/05/1916	Private	22507	Royal Welsh Fusiliers	15th Battalion
Downs	James Thomas	12/08/1917	Private	49933	The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)	1st/9th Battalion
Downs	William	23/07/1918	Private	21433	King’s Own Scottish Borderers	7th/8th Battalion
Draisey	Joseph	25/09/1915	Private	14587	King’s Own Scottish Borderers	7th Battalion
Draper	Albert	12/09/1918	Private	57672	Lancashire Fusiliers	1st Battalion
Dreschfeld	Henry Theodore	19/02/1915	Captain		Manchester Regiment
Drew	Charles Thomas	28/09/1916	Corporal	10300	South Staffordshire Regiment	7th Battalion
Drew	Christopher Thomas	03/10/1917	Private	242152	Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)	1st Battalion
Duce	William	30/09/1918	Private	28076	Royal Warwickshire Regiment	16th Battalion
Duckham	Samuel	15/07/1916	Private	8614	Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)	28th Company
Duckworth	Alfred	03/07/1915	Private	9767	South Staffordshire Regiment
Duddell	Arnold Leslie	27/09/1917	Lieutenant		South Staffordshire Regiment	3rd Battalion
Dudley	Albert Vincent	01/07/1916	Private	2951, later 240573	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Dudley	David	28/09/1915	Private	17966	Grenadier Guards	2nd Battalion
Dudwell	James Percy C.	13/10/1915	Private	2335	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Duffy	David	14/01/1915	Private	10009	Leinster Regiment	1st Battalion
Duffy	Edward	01/07/1916	Lance Corporal	10292	Lancashire Fusiliers	“B” Company, 15th Battalion
Duffy	James	25/09/1915	Private	7927	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Dulson	Matthew Harvey	11/04/1917	Second Lieutenant		Dragoon Guards	3rd Battalion (Prince of Wales’ Own)
Dunn	Ernest Alfred	26/02/1918	Private	45550, transferred to 29553	Lincolnshire Regiment, transferred to Labour Corps	11th Labour Company, transferred to 50th Company
Dunn	George	25/09/1915	Private	16310	South Staffordshire Regiment	“C” Company, 2nd Battalion
Dunn	George	27/05/1918	Private	41054	Leicestershire Regiment	7th Battalion
Dunn	George Augustus	06/12/1915	Private	5743	The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)	6th Battalion
Dunn	Harry	26/08/1918	Private	204217	Lincolnshire Regiment	8th Battalion
Dunn	Isaac William Henry	25/09/1915	Lance Corporal	12604	South Staffordshire Regiment	“C” Company, 1st Battalion
Dunn	Walter Benjamin	11/03/1919	Private	49362	Lincolnshire Regiment	Depot
Dunn	William Sidney	11/06/1915	Lance Corporal	2927	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Durham	John	01/02/1919	Sapper	97538	Royal Engineers	Camouflage Park
Duroe	Arthur	20/09/1917	Private	43119	Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)	9th Battalion
Duroe	John	09/11/1918	Private	40542	Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)	12th (Norfolk Yeomanry) Battalion
Durose	John William	01/07/1916	Private	241080	South Staffordshire Regiment	6th Battalion
Dutton	John Charles	18/09/1918	Private	41931	Norfolk Regiment	7th Battalion
Dutton	John William	05/10/1917	Gunner	185651	Royal Field Artillery	“B” Battery, 291st Brigade
Dyehouse	Harold Charles	18/06/1917	Corporal	39366	Machine Gun Corps	36th Company
Dyer	Wilfred	23/10/1914	Serjeant	7619	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Dyke	George	07/07/1915	Private	7894	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/5th Battalion
Dyke	James	04/01/1916	Serjeant	12139	South Staffordshire Regiment	8th Battalion
Dyke	William	10/08/1915	Private	12024	King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)	6th Battalion