Monthly Archives: November 2015

November 19th

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WW1: 100 years ago today 19/11/1915: Remembering Private A Parry 1st Bn. Citadel New Military Cemetery, Fricourt, France.

Private M Mylan 1st Bn. Etaples Military Cemetery, France

 

WW2: 19/11/1944: Remembering Private Fred Wright (Age 34) 2nd Bn. Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Netherlands. Son of James and Catherine Wright; husband of Mary Elizabeth Wright, of Newton Hyde, Cheshire.

2nd Bn. as part of 50th Division, after operation ‘Market Garden’ (Arnhem) were near Nijmegan (where the Jonkerbos cemetery is located), where they ended up “The Island” also mentioned in the “Band of Brothers” book (Stephen E. Ambrose) and excellent HBO TV show of the smae name. See image below and note TT showing 50th division.

 

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Band Of Brothers: The Island

(I borrowed the above image from this site….hope they don’t mind)

 

note: I was never happy with the old “bridge too far” bit, it wasn’t like “if only we’d stopped at Nijmegan we would have been fine”, the whole point was to get the bridge at Arnhem.

 

 

 

 

 

November 18th

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100 years ago today 18/11/1915: Remembering Lance Corporal Patrick Noon 1st Bn. Citadel New Military Cemetery, Fricourt, France. Father of Thomas Noon, of 27, Avenue St., Portwood, Stockport.

Private  F Dobson 10th Bn. Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) Cemetery, Belgium. Cemetery south of Ypres (Ieper), so about half way between Ypres and Lille.

 

 

17th November

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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.

November 16

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WW1: 100 years ago today 16/11/1915: Remembering Private J Ashcroft 1st Bn. Citadel New Military Cemetery, Fricourt, France.

Citadel New Military Cemetery, Fricourt is about 5km south-east of Albert, Somme (actually right at the end of the Albert Aerodrome runway).

WW2: Major Richard Harold Dixon MC (Age 29) Leros War Cemetery, Greece. Son of The Revd. Canon Alfred Cecil Dixon, B.A., and of Blanche Marguerite Dixon, of Little Sutton, Cheshire.

Leros War Cemetery is on the Island of Leros, quite close to the Turkish coast (Bodrum). So the question why was a 29 year old Major and MC here? If I find out I’ll let you know.

From Crookenden’s history of the regiment in WW2….”the loss in action of Richard Dixon deprived the Regiment of one of it’s finest and most promising officers.”

CR Dixon

So far the blog is raising more questions than answers for me…..

15th November

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100 years ago today 15/11/1915: Remembering Private  S Frost (Age 38) 10th Bn. Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) Cemetery, Belgium. Husband of Elizabeth Frost, of 69, Barnford St., Stockport.

Serjeant J Pinnock 9th Bn. Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L’avoue, France.

Private Herbert Henshall (Age 28) 9th Bn. Loos Memorial, France. Adopted Son of the late Thomas and Rebecca Allman.

Corporal David Jenkins (Age 36) 9th Bn. Loos Memorial,  France. Husband of Mary Jenkins, of 27, Brown’s Lane, Handbridge, Cheshire.

The Chesire Regiment

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HI, I am Cheshire born and bred now living in Australia. This blog is just me paying tribute to those men of the Cheshire Regiment who paid the ultimate sacrifice. I will be showing the information available from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission web site (www.cwgc.org ) for WW1 and WW2, plus anything else I find or think is interesting. Rather than just listing the information I’d like to put in some kind of context; for example, tomorrow (16/11/1915) Private Ashcroft, why were 1st Battalion near the Somme, 7 ½ months before the place became forever synonymous with suffering and loss. I intend to increase the scope to post 1945 conflict and peace keeping operations, give it time.

Lest we forget….ever glorious