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World War I History for Today: 23 May

Events

1	1915	Italy declares war on Austro-Hungarian Empire
2	1918	Costa Rica declares war on Germany
3	1918	Germans shell Paris

Births

1	1893	Jean Romatet
2	1894	Edward Robert Pennell

Deaths

Claims

1	1917	Robert Little #19
2	1917	George Simpson #6
3	1917	Lloyd Breadner #7
4	1917	Joseph Fall #8
5	1917	James Glen #1
6	1917	Charles Booker #10
7	1917	Cyril Marconi Crowe #5
8	1917	Francis Cubbon #14 #15
9	1917	Augustus Orlebar #1
10	1917	Arthur Percival Foley Rhys Davids #1
11	1917	Reginald Soar #3
12	1917	Frederick Thayre #13 #14
13	1917	Hugh White #2
14	1917	Gilbert de Guingand u/c
15	1917	Omer Demeuldre #2
16	1917	Paul Aue u/c
17	1917	Heinrich Bongartz #8
18	1917	Dieter Collin #3
19	1917	Max von Müller #11
20	1917	Karl Schäfer #28 #29
21	1917	Werner Voss #29
22	1917	Giles Blennerhasset #7 #8
23	1917	Flavio Baracchini #2
24	1917	Phillip Prothero #3
25	1918	William Weir #1 #2
26	1918	William Barker #29
27	1918	Harold Byrn Hudson #12
28	1918	Donald MacLaren #28
29	1918	Stanley Stanger #7
30	1918	James Belgrave #13
31	1918	Charles Booker #25
32	1918	Reginald Howard Rusby #7
33	1918	Alexandre Bretillon #3
34	1918	Dieter Collin #10
35	1918	Theodor Croneiss #5
36	1918	Josef Jacobs #17
37	1918	Roman Schneider #2
38	1918	Heinrich Seywald #1
39	1918	Alvaro Leonardi #6
40	1918	William Jordan #24
41	1918	Samuel Kinkead #24

Losses

1	1918	Stearne Edwardsin hospital after nervous collapse
2	1918	George ThomsonKIC