1917 in The United Kingdom - Deaths

Deaths

  • 2 January - Edward Burnett Tylor, anthropologist (born 1832)
  • 25 March - John George Will, Scottish international rugby player (killed in action) (born 1892)
  • 2 April - Bryn Lewis, Wales international rugby player (killed in action) (born 1891)
  • 9 April - Edward Thomas, poet (killed in action) (born 1878)
  • 31 July
    • Ellis Humphrey Evans ("Hedd Wyn"), Welsh-language poet (killed in action) (born 1887)
    • James Llewellyn Davies, VC recipient (killed in action) (born 1886)
    • James Young Milne Henderson, Scottish international rugby player (killed in action) (born 1891)
    • Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (killed in action) (born 1887)
  • 15 August - Thomas Crisp, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1876)
  • 30 August - Alan Leo, astrologer (born 1860)
  • 8 November
    • Colin Blythe, cricketer (born 1879)
    • Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, astronomer (born 1850)
  • 14 December - Phil Waller, Wales and British Lions rugby player (killed in action) (born 1889)

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