101 years ago today 25/1/1915: Serjeant Samuel Crawford (Age 22) 1st Bn. R.E. Farm Cemetery, Belgium. Son of Samuel and Sarah Jane Crawford, of Chapel House, Minshull Vernon, Crewe.

Lieutenant MW Hand 1st Bn. R.E. Farm Cemetery, Belgium.

100 years ago today 25/1/1916: Private T Mitchell 2nd (Garr.) Bn. Liverpool (Anfield) Cemetery, United Kingdom.

VC Winners….

1917: Edward Henderson of Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment) in WW1, River Hai, Mesopotamia.

1917: Robert Phillips of Royal Warwickshire Regiment in WW1, Kut, Mesopotamia.