101 years ago today 14/3/1915: Lance Corporal T Cooke 1st Bn. Spoilbank Cemetery, Belgium.

Corporal F Venables (Age 21) 1st Bn. Spoilbank Cemetery, Belgium. Son of Annie Venables, of 5, Lime St., Ellesmere Port, Birkenhead, and the late Alfred Venables.

Private William Cecil Nield (Age 19) 1st Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Son of William and Mary Ann Nield.

100 years ago today 14/3/1916: Private Charles Lee (Age 23) 3rd Bn. Bebington Cemetery, United Kingdom. Son of John and Jane Lee, of 4, New Chester Rd., New Ferry, Birkenhead. Born at Liverpool.

Private WR Morrison 16th Bn. Bethune Town Cemetery, France.

Meanwhile in World War 2:

1941: Private Richard Dalton (Age 28) 8th (H.D.) Bn. Portlaoighise (Ss. Peter and Paul) Cemetery, Republic of Ireland. Son of James and Mary Dalton; husband of Mary Kate Dalton, of St. Thomas, Oxford.

Private George James Hinkley (Age 35) 8th (H.D.) Bn. Birkenhead (Landican) Cemetery, United Kingdom. Son of George James Hinkley and Edith Amelia Hinkley; husband of Rosina Hinkley, of Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset.

1944: Corporal John Berry (Age 37) 7th Bn. Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio, Italy. Son of Samuel and Ann Berry, of Wigan, Lancashire; husband of Florence Berry, of Wigan.

Also…

1943 – Krakow ghetto liquidated (“today is history”)

1945 – RAF drop a Grand Slam

happy birthday….

1863 – Casey Jones

1879 -Albert Einstein

1933 – Michael Caine