101 years ago today 5/1/1915: Private JS Tindall 16th Bn. Whickham (St. Mary) Churchyard, United Kingdom.

100 years ago today 5/1/1916: Private E Axon MID (Age 23) 10th Bn. Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France. Husband of Edith May Axon, of “Maple,” 22, Queen’S Rd., Hale, Cheshire.

Private  E Cartlidge (Age 36) 8th Bn. Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Turkey (including Gallipoli). Husband oAlice Cartlidge, of 22, River St., Congleton, Cheshire.

Meanwhile in World War 2:

5/01/1941: Private Samuel Edwin Slaney (Age 34) 8th (H.D.) Bn. Congleton (St. Stephen) Churchyard, United Kingdom. Son of Edward and Sarah Ellen Slaney, of Congleton.

5th January 1984: Cheshires finished a tour based in Londonderry, Northern Ireland (started 10th March 1982)

also….

1895 – Dreyfus Affair (Alfred Dreyfus stripped of rank and sentanced to life on Devil’s Island, Fench Guiana.

1919 – the Germany Worker’s Party formed…..I wonder where that will lead????

VC Winner…

1900: John Milbanke of 10th Hussars in 2nd Boer, Colesberg, South Africa.