101 years ago today 6/3/1915: Private EC Stagg 2nd Bn. Bailleul Communal Cemetery, Nord, France.

Private WT Stead 1st Bn. Ramparts Cemetery, Lille Gate, Belgium.

Lance Serjeant Frank Norbury (Age 24) 1st/5th Bn. Ration Farm (La Plus Douve) Annexe, Belgium. Son of Charlotte M. Graves (formerly Norbury), of 158, Edleston Rd., Crewe, Cheshire, and the late George Fredrick Norbury. Native of Stretford, Manchester.

Private TH Harding 1st Bn. Spoilbank Cemetery, Belgium.

Private TW Hickson 2nd Bn. Tredegar (Cefn Golau) Cemetery, United Kingdom.

Private Robert Ashton 1st Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

Private Charles Dobson 1st Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

Private Fred Garner (Age 43) 1st Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Husband of Mrs. E. S. Garner, of 9, Ince St., Heaton Norris, Stockport.

Private George Green 1st Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

Corporal Frank McCarthy 1st Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

Private Richard Robinson 1st Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

 

 

VC Winner…

1858: William Goat of 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers in Indian Mutiny, Lucknow, India.

1916: William Cotter of Buffs (East Kent Regiment) in WW1, Hohenzollern Redoubt, France.

 

Also….

1836 – Remember the Alamo!

1987 – sinking of Herald of Free Enterprise (ferry)

happy birthday…

1475 – Michelangelo

1849 – Georg Luger (gun designer!)

1917 – Frankie Howerd (“titter ye not”)

1934 – John Noakes (Blue Peter)