100 years ago today 10/12/1915: Remembering Private  Charles William Cantrell (Age 29) 1st/7th Bn. Helles Memorial, Turkey (including Gallipoli). Husband of May Cantrell, of 43, Grange Avenue, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire.

Meanwhile in World War 2:

10/12/1940: Private John Hough (Age 24) 1st Bn. Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt. Son of Maurice Hough, and of Florence May Hough, of Porthill, Staffordshire.

Private  Richard Leslie Knowles (Age 21) 1st Bn.  Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt. Son of Samuel and Irene Knowles, of Hyde, Cheshire.

Private Patrick Power 1st Bn. Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt.

note: just over the Egyptian border with Libya, this would have been during the forward-and-back phase of the Desert War.

1941: HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse sunk by the Japanese

happy birthday…

…the metre 1799, adopted by France…….

…the first traffic lights outside palace of Westminster, London

and we lost Ottis Redding 1967

By the way…special thanks to the wonderful http://www.cwgc.org web site which contains such useful and accessible information.