At midnight Berlin time when the deadline for the Germans to respond passed they were young men in Westminster who were MPs who knew that their duty was to return to their regiments and take up arms. The following is a list of the young men who were Members of Parliament* from all parties who fought and died in World War I:
Arthur Edward Bruce O'Neill 19 Sep 1876 - 6 Nov 1914 KIA Klein Zillebeke ridge, Belgium
Unionist MP Mid Antrim Jan 1910 - 6 Nov 1914
William Glynne Gladstone 14 Jul 1885 - 13 Apr 1915 KIA near Laventie, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Liberal MP for Kilmarnock Boroughs 26 Sep 1911 - 13 Apr 1915
Dr John Joseph Esmonde 27 Jan 1862 - 17 Apr 1915 Died in Service, France
Irish Nationalist MP for North Tipperary 1910 - 17 Apr 1915
Harold Thomas Crawley 12 Jun 1878 - 23 Sep 1915 KIA Gallipoli, Turkey
Liberal MP for Heywood Jan 1910 - 23 Sep 1915
Thomas Agar-Robartes 22 May 1880 - 30 Sep 1915 DoW from wounds in Battle of Loos, France
Liberal MP Bodmin Feb - Jun 1906 (lost on petition) & St Austell Jan 1910 - 30 Sep 1915
Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart 15 May 1883 - 2 Oct 1915 KIA Hohenzollern Redoubt, near La Bassée (Battle of Loos), France
Unionist MP for United Boroughs of Cardiff, Cowbridge and Llantrisant
Charles Thomas Mills 13 Mar 1887 - 6 Oct 1915 KIA Hulluch, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Conservative MP for Uxbridge Jan 1910 - 6 Oct 1915
Hon. William Lionle Charles Walrond 22 May 1876 - 3 Nov 1915 DoW
Conservative MP for Tiverton Jan 1906 - 13 Nov 1915
Viscount Quentington, Michael Hicks Beach 19 Jan 1877 - 23 Apr 1916 DoW at Katia, Egypt
Conservative MP for Tewkesbury Jan 1906-23 Apr 1916
Duncan Frederick Campbell 28 Apr 1876 - 4 Sep 1916 DoW from Western Front at Southwald, Suffolk
Conservative MP for North Ayrshire 20 Dec 1911 - 4 Sep 1916
Thomas Michael Kettle 9 Feb 1880 - 9 Sep 1916 KIA Ginchy, Battle of the Somme, Picardie, France
Irish Party Mp for East Tyrone Jan 1906 - Dec 1910
Hon. Guy Baring 26 Feb 1873 - 15 Sep 1916 KIA Battle of the Somme, Picardie, France
Conservative MP for Winchester Jan 1906 - 15 Sep 1916
Charles Duncombe 8 May1879 - 15 Sep 1916 KIA Battle of Flers-Courcelette, France
Conservative MP Thirsk and Malton Jan 1910 - 15 Jan 1915, then 2nd Earl of Feversham 15 Jan 1915 - 15 Sep 1916
Gerald Archibald Arbuthnot 19 Dec 1872 - 25 Sep 1916 KIA Fricourt, Battle of the Somme, Picardie, France
Conservative MP for Burnley Jan 1910 - Dec 1910
Valentine Fleming 1882 - 20 May 1917 KIA Gillemont Farm, Picardie, France
Conservative MP for Henley 1910 - 20 May 1917
William Hoey Kearney Redmond 13 Apr 1861 - 7 Jun 1917 KIA Messines Ridge, Belgium
Irish Parliamentary MP Wexford Borough July 1883-Nov 1885, Nationalist MP Fermanagh North 1885-1892, Irish Nationalist/Sinn Féin MP for Clare North 1892 - 7 Jul 1917
Hon. Francis Walter Stafford McLaren 16 Jun 1886 - 30 Aug 1917 Killed in Flying Accident RAF Montrose
Liberal MP for Spalding Jan 1910 - 30 Aug 1917
Hon. Neil James Archibald Primrose 14 Dec 1882 - 15 Nov 1917 DoW received in Palestine
Liberal MP for Wisbech 1910 - 15 Nov 1917
Philip Kirkland Glazebrook 24 Dec 1880 - 7 Mar 1918 KIA Bireh, near Jerusalem, Palestine
Conservative MP for Manchester South 5 Mar 1912 - 7 Mar 1918
Percy Archer Clive 13 Mar 1873 - 5 Apr 1918 KIA Borquoy, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Liberal Unionist MP for Ross, Herefordshire Oct 1900-Jan 1906, Jan 1908 - 5 Apr 1918
Francis Bennett-Goldney 1865- 27 July 1918 Killed in car accident Brest, France
Independent Unionist MP for Cantebury Jan 1906 - 27 July 1918
Oswald Cawley 7 Oct 1882 - 22 Aug 1918 KIA nr Merville, Nord, France
MP for Prestwich Jan 1918 - 22 Aug 1918
Lord Alexander George Boteville Thynne 17 Feb 1873 - 16 Sep 1918 KIA France
Conservative MP for Bath Jan 1910 - 16 Sep 1918
Hon. Charles Henry Lyell 18 May 1875 - 18 Oct 1918 Died of pneumonia while serving as Assistant Military Attaché to the USA
Liberal MP for East Dorset 1904- Jan 1910 & Edinburgh South Apr 1910 - 18 Oct 1918
* I have added a few of the men who had been MPs in the years before the outbreak but who had either been defeated or elevated to the peerage before their died as well.
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