This section of the Long, Long Trail originally developed from a discussion at the Great War Forum.

We have been researching brothers who served in the British Army (including the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand forces) and who are known to have died on the same day.

Thanks are due to all who contributed the following details, of - at present - 219 sets of brothers. They are all tragic stories; perhaps none more so than where the brothers were not in the same unit or even in the same area when they lost their lives.

Latest addition to the tragic list:

1 July 1916 :
Holt, 29, a Lieutenant with 109th Machine Gun Company, and William Hewitt, 23, Second Lieutenant with the 9th (Service) Battalion the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Sons of James and Jeannie Hewitt of Altamont, Bangor, County Down. Holt is buried in Mill Road Cemetery, not far from the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing where William is commemorated. They had already lost a brother, Lieutenant Ernest Jewitt who went missing 15-16 June 1915 while serving with the 4th Battalion, the King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). He also has no known grave and is commemrated at the Le Touret Memorial. A fourth brother survived.
Submitted by Chris Baker from an article found in the "Times"