101 years ago today 5/2/1915: Private John Frederick Kay 2nd Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

Private W Bagnall 2nd Bn. Ypres Town Cemetery Extension, Belgium.

Meanwhile in World War 2:

1944: Private Lloyd Parry (Age 22) 7th Bn. Minturno War Cemetery, Italy. Son of Edward and Nellie Parry, of Tunstall, Stoke-On-Trent.

5/02/2010 Corporal Harvey Alex Holmes (Age 22) 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, serving with 40 Commando Royal Marines Battle Group (from Hyde, Greater Manchester). Hostile – hostile fire – IED attack in Sangin, Afghanistan.

Corporal Harvey Holmes and his mother Beverley Holmes.

also…

1945 – Douglas McCarther returns to Philippines

happy birthday…

1840 – Hiram Maxim….”with greater facility…”