100 years ago today 21/3/1916: Private C Reeder 16th Bn. Bethune Town Cemetery, France.

Private WA Halton 3rd Bn. Hyde Borough Cemetery, United Kingdom.

Meanwhile in World War 2:

1945: Private Edward Dean (Age 31) 1st Bn. Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany.

VC Winner…

1891: Charles Grant of Indian Staff Corps in Manipur Expedition, Thobal, Burma

1918: Ernest Beal of Green Howards in WW1, Saint-Léger, France

1918: John Buchan of Princess Louises’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) in WW1, Marteville, France

1918: Edmund De Wind of Royal Irish Rifles in WW1, Grugies, France

1918: Wilfrith Elstob of Manchester Regiment in WW1, Saint-Quentin, France

1918: Reginald Hayward of Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment) in WW1, Frémicourt, France

1918: Basil Horsfall of East Lancashire Regiment in WW1, Moyenneville, France

1918: Manley James of Gloucestershire Regiment in WW1, Velu Wood, France

1918: Allan Ker of Gordon Highlanders in WW1, Saint-Quentin, France

1918: John Sayer of Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment in WW1, Le Verguier, France

1918: Charles Stone of Royal Field Artillery in WW1, Caponne Farm, France

1945: Claud Raymond of Corps of Royal Engineers in WW2, Talaku, Burma