100 years ago today 6/12/1915: Remembering Corporal John Lake 14th Bn. Stoke-On-Trent (Longton) Cemetery, United Kingdom.
Meanwhile in World War 2:
6/12/1942: Private Frederick Hurford Rimmer (Age 27) 1st Bn. Pembroke Military Cemetery, Malta. Husband of Gladys Rimmer, of Gzira, Malta.
6/12/1943: Private Joseph Turley (Age 22) 6th Bn. Minturno War Cemetery, Italy. Son of Kate Turley, of Denton, Lancashire.
6/12/1982: Northern Ireland: Droppin’ Well bar bombing, Ballykelly, County Londonderry, NI.
On the Saturday night when the pub was packed with 150 people, the INLA planted a bomb which was placed next to a structural column, causing the building to collapse. This atrocity killed 17 (including 8 members of the 1/Cheshires) and injured 30. The bar was rename “The Riverside Bar” in 2008.
Lance Corporal Steven Bagshaw, 21; Lance Corporal Clinton Collins, 20; Private David Murray, 18; Private Steven Smith, 24; Lance Corporal Philip McDonough, 26; Private Neil Williams, 18; Private Anthony S. Williamson, 20; Lance Corporal David Wilson-Stitt, 27 all from 1st Bn. Cheshire.
Private Terence Adams, 20 and Private Paul Delaney, 18; Army Catering Corps; Corporal David Salthouse, 23; 3/Light Infantry.
Alan Callaghan, 17; Ruth Dixon, 17; Patricia Cooke, 21 (Died on the 16th in hospital); Angela Hoole, 19; Valerie McIntyre, 21; Carol Watts, 25 all civilians.
For further information….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droppin_Well_bombing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/events/droppin_well
Finally, I lifter this from the BBC report (above)…
“A Lance Corporal stationed at Ballykelly, anonymously recalled the bombing on the Shared Troubles website: “Life in Ballykelly was never the same for both our civilian friends and families and our own military community. There remained a sense of disbelief and cautious awareness by us all. The scars of 6th December 1982 will stay with many of us for all our lives. People have been affected in many different ways by the horrific events of that night”.”
(thanks to BBC news web site)
More recently….Afghanistan
6/12/2010: Lance Corporal Andrew Breeze (Age 31) B (Malta) Company, 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire) from Manchester, England. Cause Hostile – hostile fire, Nahr-e Saraj district, Afghanistan.
(photo from Manchester Evening News, thanks)
remember them all: Cheshire Regiment casualties 