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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
Kay	John Alexander	09/10/1917	Captain		Lancashire Fusiliers	6th Battalion
Kay	William Joseph	21/08/1918	Lance Corporal	50531	Cheshire Regiment	1st Battalion
Kearns	Thomas	07/04/1919	Private	9943	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Keates	George Frederick	25/06/1918	Private	51826	King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry	2nd/4th Battalion
Keatley	Arthur William	15/09/1916	Private	16180	Leicestershire Regiment	1st Battalion
Keay	Alfred	12/02/1916	Private	30038	Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Keay	John James	18/07/1916	Private	17049	King’s Shropshire Light Infantry	7th Battalion
Keble	Eustace Charles	21/03/1918	Second Lieutenant		North Staffordshire Regiment	1st Battalion
Keeley	Arthur	20/10/1917	Private	33594	Devonshire Regiment	9th Battalion
Keeley	Fred	22/03/1918	Gunner	681622	Royal Field Artillery	“A” Battery, 94th Brigade
Keeling	Basil Congreve	21/03/1918	Private	421417	Royal Army Medical Corps
Keeling	Henry	25/09/1915	Private	9371	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Kelly	Alfred	01/07/1916	Private	4505, later 241280	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Kelly	Denis Peter	27/03/1918	Gunner	67930	Royal Garrison Artillery	109th Siege Battery
Kelly	Harold	13/05/1920	Corporal	10288	Cheshire Regiment	1st Battalion
Kelly	James	13/10/1920	Private	G/61697	The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Kelly	John	30/12/1917	Serjeant	240729	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Kelly	Leo Thomas Bernard	01/04/1918	Private	31089	Hussars	20th Battalion
Kelly	Matthew	24/03/1918	Lance Corporal	35810	South Staffordshire Regiment	4th Battalion
Kelly	Michael	12/11/1914	Private	6071	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Kelly	Thomas Patrick	25/11/1917	Private	18049	South Staffordshire Regiment
Kelly	William Henry	11/04/1918	Private	43638	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd/6th Battalion
Kemp	Albert	01/07/1916	Second Lieutenant		Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers	“A” Company, 10th Battalion
Kemp	Francis	16/07/1917	Able Seaman		Mercantile Marine	SS “Ribston” (London)
Kempsey	Bartholomew	13/01/1917	Lance Corporal	25513	Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry	12th Battalion
Kempson	Frederick	23/10/1916	Corporal	37641	Lancashire Fusiliers	2nd Battalion
Kendall	John Aubrey	01/07/1916	Private	1979	Cheshire Regiment	5th Battalion
Kendrick	Albert Oliver	17/02/1917	Private	30220	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Kendrick	Alfred Benjamin	30/07/1916	Lance Corporal	13415	East Lancashire Regiment	7th Battalion
Kendrick	Alfred William	20/11/1916	Private	5137	Northumberland Fusiliers	4th Battalion
Kendrick	Bertie Samuel	01/07/1916	Private	240638	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Kendrick	George Edward	07/11/1918	Sapper	WR/283507	Royal Engineers	Foreway Company
Kendrick	Haden Mostyn	18/09/1916	Lieutenant		Royal Flying Corps and South Staffordshire Regiment	5th Battalion
Kent	Richard William	07/11/1914	Lance Corporal	7424	Worcestershire Regiment	3rd Battalion
Keough	Joseph	01/07/1916	Lance Corporal	8562	King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)	1st Battalion
Keyte	Frederick Harry	23/09/1916	Private	16789	Coldstream Guards	13th Company, 3rd Battalion
Keyte	J.	Unknown
Kidd	Henry George	16/09/1916	Private	13920	Grenadier Guards	1st Battalion
Kidson	John Harold	15/10/1918	Lance Corporal	SE/24190	Army Veterinary Corps	11th Veterinary Hospital
Kidson	W. J.	Unknown
Kidson	W. T.	Unknown
Kilcoyne	John	13/12/1917	Private	5921	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Killin	Thomas Claude	11/12/1916		PS/6915	Royal Fusiliers
Kimpton	Timothy James	20/02/1918	Private	14996, later 444647	Manchester Regiment, transferred to Labour Corps	Transferred to 277th Area Employment Company
King	Edward	04/09/1918	Able Seaman	R/6395	Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve	Hawke Battalion Royal Naval Division
King	Ernest Leonard B.	15/08/1915	Private	16291	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
King	George Harold	19/09/1918	Private	42572	Leicestershire Regiment	1st Battalion
King	Mark Percival	12/11/1918	Private	3187, later 39993	Worcestershire Regiment	1st Battalion
Kingscote	Albert Victor	11/08/1917	Private	40741	Bedfordshire Regiment	7th Battalion
Kinsey	Arthur	09/05/1916	Gunner	23647	Royal Field Artillery	33rd Brigade
Kinsey	Richard James	18/10/1915	Driver	99902	Royal Field Artillery	“C” Battery, 74th Brigade
Kinsey	Thomas	07/11/1914	Private	9312	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st Battalion
Kinsey	William Henry	29/06/1916	Gunner	19088	Royal Field Artillery	65th Battery, 28th Brigade
Kirk	John	30/09/1920	Private	5331	South Staffordshire Regiment
Kirk	Joseph	28/01/1917	Private	61374	Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)	39th Company
Kirk	Joseph	23/04/1917	Private	421063	Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to Royal Field Artillery	Attached to 232nd Brigade
Kirk	Samuel	28/03/1918	Private	54730	West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own)	2nd Battalion
Kitson	Benjamin Thomas	23/08/1916	Private	5031	Royal Warwickshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Knight	Harold Norman	21/06/1918	Private	241824	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Knight	Samuel	16/07/1916	Private	15618	Leicestershire Regiment	6th Battalion
Knipe	Francis A. or Howard	09/08/1915	Private	13498	Lincolnshire Regiment	6th Battalion
Kyle	William	28/04/1917	Private	D/820	Dragoon Guards	2nd (Royal Scots Greys)