In WW1 Remembering:

21/12/1914: Private Harry Turner (Age 19) 1st Bn. St. Peter-In-Thanet Churchyard, United Kingdom. Son of Tom Cyrus Turner and Mary Jane Turner, of Altrincham, Cheshire.

21/12/1917: Private WE Roberts 21st Bn. Hamburg Cemetery, Germany.

21/12/1918: Private C Sherratt 2nd Bn. Congleton (St. Stephen) Churchyard, United Kingdom.

21/12/1918: Private H Sherwood 1st Bn. Hamburg Cemetery, Germany.

 

Meanwhile in World War 2:

21/12/1943: Second Lieutenant Victor William Wood (Age 26) Sangro River War Cemetery, Italy. Son of Irene Ruth Wood; husband of Marjorie Alice Wood, of Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, Manchester.

also today…

1988 – Lockerbie bombin Pan Am flight 103 (killing 270)

happy birthday…

1804 – Benjamin Disraeli

1917 – Heinrich Boll

1948 – Samuel L Jackson

1957 – Ray Romano

and we lost…..

1945 – George S Patton (US General)

1957 – Eric Coates (English composer and writer of “Dam Busters” theme)