100 years ago today 17/11/1915: Remembering Private  J Stanley 11th Bn. Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France

The cemetery is near Belgian border, due south of Poperinge.

1940: Private William Edgeley (Age 34) 6th Bn. Cleckheaton New Cemetery, United Kingdom. Son of Mark and Annie Edgeley; husband of Alice Edgeley, of South Elmsall.

1942: Serjeant David Joseph Macpherson (Age 32) 6th Bn. El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. Son of David Archibald Macpherson and of Teresa Macpherson (Nee Martin); husband of Johanna Christina Macpherson, of Higher Broughton, Salford, Lancashire.

Monty’s birthday: Bernard Law Montgomery born 17th November 1887 (and Sgt Macpherson buried at El Alamein!). Also Emporer Vespasian born 9AD.