100 years ago today 8/12/1915: Remembering Private John Hore (Age 19) 1st/4th Bn. Green Hill Cemetery, Turkey (Including Gallipoli). Son of Philip Henry Hore, of 11, Ferndale Rd., Hoylake, Birkenhead.

More recently….Afghanistan

8/12/2010: Rifleman Remand Kulung (Age 27) Gurkha Reinforcement Company, 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire) [1 MERCIAN] from Basaha, Barshedanda, Nepal. Cause a non-hostile – Helicopter accident. Nahr-e Saraj, Afghanistan.

happy birthday…..

1542 – birth of Mary Queen of Scots (execution 1587)

1925 – Sammy Davis Junior (died 1990)

and we lost…

1980 – John Lennon