101 years ago today 29/12/1914: Remembering Private Cornelius Bamford (Age 22) 1st Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Son of William and Isabella Bamford, of Back Arthur St., Bury; husband of Marie Waldron (Formerly Bamford), of 2, Parson’S Court, Elton, Bury.

100 years ago today 29/12/1915: Remembering: Private A Gray 11th Bn. Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France.

Meanwhile in World War 2:

29/12/1939: Lance Corporal Percival William Walter Hookway (Age 37) 2nd Bn. Tiverton Cemetery, United Kingdom. Son of Walter Venton Hookway and Alice Maud Hookway, of Tiverton; Stepson of Mrs. A. B. A. Hookway, of Tiverton.

29/12/1940: Lance Corporal William Joseph Albert McGowan (Age 22) 1st Bn. Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt. Son of William and Annie McGowan, of Birkenhead.

VC today:

29 December 1877: Hans Moore 88th Regiment of Foot in 9th Cape Frontier War at King William’s Town, Cape Colony.

also today…

1170 – Thomas Becket (Arch Bishop of Canterbury) killed…

1890 – massacre at Wounded Knee

1895 – Jameson Raid in South Africa (helped start Second Boer War)

1939 – First flight of Consolidated LIberator B-24