101 years ago today 31/3/1915: Private H Kimber 4th Bn. Bailleul Communal Cemetery, Nord, France.

Private M Byrne 1st/4th Bn. attd. 1st/5th Bn. Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium.

100 years ago today 31/3/1916: Private Thomas Evan Parry (Age 24) 3rd Bn. Llanengan (Bwlch) Calvinistic Methodist Chapelyard, United Kingdom. Son of Griffith and Sophie Parry, of Tan-Yr-Allt.

Private A Eastwood 16th Bn. Royal Irish Rifles Graveyard, Laventie, France.

VC Winner…

1900: Horace Glasock of Royal Horse Artillery in 2nd Boer war, Korn Spruit, South Africa.

1900: Isaac Lodge of Royal Horse Artillery in 2nd Boer war, Korn Spruit, South Africa.

1900: Francis Maxwell of Roberts’s Light Horse in 2nd Boer war, Korn Spruit, South Africa.

1900: Charles Parker of Royal Horse Artillery in 2nd Boer war, Korn Spruit, South Africa.

1900: Edmund Phipps-Hornby of Royal Horse Artillery in 2nd Boer war, Korn Spruit, South Africa.

1918: Gordon Flowerdew of Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) in WW1, Bois de Moreuil, France.

Also…

1992 – USS Missouri decommissioned