101 years ago today 16/2/1915: Private B Taylor (Age 28) 1st Bn. Bailleul Communal Cemetery, Nord, France. Son of George and Elizabeth Ann Taylor, of 30, Bank St., Hyde, Cheshire.

Private William Douglas (Age 17) 1st Bn. Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France. Son of Edwin and Annie Douglas, of 4, St. Marys Gate, Stockport.

Major WJ Newton Heswall (St. Peter) Churchyard, United Kingdom,

Private AE Mulineux 13th Rn. Wallasey (Rake Lane) Cemetery, United Kingdom.

 

100 years ago today 16/2/1916: Major Claude Butler Gosset (Age 36) Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, France. Son of William Butler Gosset and Alice Lee Gosset; husband of Esmee Daisy Earle (formerly Gosset) of 24, Hans Rd., Knightsbridge, London.

Private Leonard Wainwright (Age 22) 3rd Bn. Poynton (St. George) Churchyard, United Kingdom. Son of Samuel Wainwright, of 224, New Town, Poynton, Stockport.

 

Meanwhile in World War 2:

1942: Private Percival James Cutler (Age 32) 30th Bn. St. Helens Cemetery, United Kingdom. Son of Frederick Charles and Florence Augusta Cutler.

1944: Lance Corporal Wilfred Hodgkinson (Age 23) 6th Bn. Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio. Italy. Son of George H. and Ruth Hodgkinson, of Reddish, Stockport, Cheshire.

Private Rex Edwin Howkins (Age 19) 6th Bn. Cassino Memorial, Italy. Son of John T. and Emma E. Howkins, of Bedford.

1946: Private Leslie Hitchen (Age 25) Bunbury (St. Boniface) Churchyard Extension, United Kingdom. Son of Enoch and Maria Hitchen; husband of Joyce Hitchen, of Haughton.

 

VC Winner…

1917: Frederick Palmer of Royal Fusiliers in WW1, Courcelette, France.

1942: Thomas Gould of HMS Thrasher in WW2, Crete, Mediterranean Sea.

1942: Peter Roberts of HMS Thrasher in WW2, Crete, Mediterranean Sea.

1944: Charles Hoey of Lincolnshire Regiment in WW2, Ngakyedauk Pass, Burma.

1945: Prakash Singh Chib of 13th Frontier Force Rifles in WW2, Kanlan Ywathit, Burma

 

Also…

1923 – Howard Carter at Tutankhamun burial chamber

1945 – US re-lands on Corregidor (I went there in 1994)

1987 – John Demjanjuk trial in Jerusalem (‘Ivan the terrible’ in Treblinka)

 

 

 

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