- John William Branton
Birth - 1878 - Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England - James Arthur Braggins
- Joseph R. Connor
Birth - 1878 - Alabama, US - Thomas Robert MacIntosh
- Harold Arthur Evans
- Joseph John Pickering
Birth - 1878 - Canning Town, Essex, England - William James Henderson
- Hugh S. Connor
Birth - 1878 - Alabama, US - Alfred Bye
Birth - 1878 - Canning Town, Essex, England - Arthur Moore
Birth - 1878 - Keighley, Yorkshire, England - Frederick James Earle
- James C. Yates
Birth - 1878 - Upper Norwood, Surrey - Martha M. Lapham
Birth - 1878 - Kilmington, Somerset - John Hinge
Birth - 1878 - Chatham, Kent - John Atkinson
Birth - 1878 - Preston, York, England - Walter Turnbull Greathead
- Wilfred Robert King
- Walter William Leask
- Samuel Jensen
- Thomas Hunter Filmer
- Thomas Norman
- George Johnson Roydhouse
Birth - July 1878 - Sculcoates, Yorkshire, England - Alfred John Thomas Smith
- Timothy Bertrand Myers
- John Wheatley
- Charles Alexander Moore
- Dickson Jardine
- William Skene Jenkins
- Robert Greathead
- Albert Impey
- Christopher John Wreggitt
Birth - 1879 - Pocklington - Leonard Derby Chatfield
- Herbert Cochar Henderson
- John Evelyn Pennington Mellor
Birth - 1879 - Biarritz, France - Donald Macintosh MacIntosh
- Hugh Morton
- Frederick James Leeston Smith
- Neil Ferguson
- William Booth
Death - 1879 - Carterton, NZ - Herbert Maxton Coulson
Birth - 1879 - West Ham, Essex, England - Napier Hugh Parsons
Birth - 1879 - New Zealand - William John Ingle
- Thomas Alfred Willey
Birth - 1879 - Gilling, Yorkshire - Albert John Cook
Birth - 1879 - Old Ford, Middlesex - Frank Marshall
Birth - 1879 - Stourton, Wiltshire - Robert William Linton
- Ernest William Allen
- Walter Howard Dunn
- John Edmond Filmer
Birth - 1879 - Wanganui, NZ - John Bungate
- Charles Maxton Roydhouse
- Walter R. Adams
- Vernon Augustus Bell
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