World War Two: Remembering Serjeant Louis Ashworth (Age 33) 2nd Bn. Ancona War Cemetery, Italy. Son of Louie and Elizabeth Ashworth, of Manchester.

Private Leonard Sharples Acton (Age 36) 2nd Bn. Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Netherlands. Son of Leonard Wade Acton and Emily Acton, of Stockport, Cheshire; husband of Ethel Acton, of Heaton Chapel, Stockport.

Another one for ‘the island’ near Nijmegen, Holland…

also today…

• 1943: HMS Rawalpindi sunk by Scharnhorst and Gneisenau
• 1943: Tarawa falls to US forces (well done lads)
• Death of Cornelius Ryan (1974)