101 years ago today 12/4/1915: Private F Fawkner (Age 18) 1st/7th Bn. Macclesfield Cemetery, United Kingdom. Son of Albert and Susannah Fawkner, of 42, Coronation St., Macclesfield.

Private Peter William (Age 22) 1st Bn. Tuileries British Cemetery, Belgium. Husband of Hannah Bell, of 167, Brook St., Birkenhead.

 

100 years ago today 12/4/1916: Second Lieutenant Harold Mansfield (Age 22) 1st Bn. Etaples Military Cemetery, France. Son of James Taylor Mansfield and Mary Alice Mansfield, of Crewe.

Private Thomas Spencer (Age 35) 1st Bn. Habarcq Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Native of Middleton, Wirksworth, Derbyshire.

 

Meanwhile in World War 2:

1942: Private Frank Webb 2nd Bn. Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Libya  .

1943: Captain William Edward Sutton Lees (Age 26) 6th Bn. Tripoli War Cemetery, Libya. Son of William and Kathleen A. Lees, of Bramhall, Cheshire.

Private Albert Thomas (Age 22) 6th Bn. Tripoli War Cemetery, Libya. Son of Frederick John and Nell Stockley, of Feltham. Middlesex.

1944: Lance Serjeant George Summer Hewitt (Age 25) 7th Bn. Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio, Italy. Son of George Edward and Eva Eliza Hewitt, Of Hoole, Chester. Freeman of the city of Chester.

1945: Private Harry Broadley (Age 23) 1st Bn. Becklingen War Cemetery, Germany. Son of Harry and Holly Broadley, of Barnsley, Yorkshire.

Lieutenant Leslie Hilton Kershaw MID (Age 27) Groesbeek Memorial, Netherlands. Son of Wilfred and Elizabeth Edna Kershaw, of Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire.

Private Thomas Maguire (Age 26) 1st Bn. Becklingen War Cemetery, Germany. Son of T. G. and Martha H. Maguire, of Warrington, Lancashire.

Private Leonard Cyril Rookes (Age 18) 1st Bn. Becklingen War Cemetery, Germany.

Private Sam Wright (Age 18) 1st Bn. Becklingen War Cemetery, Germany. Son of Beatrice Wright, of Osmondthorpe, Leeds, Yorkshire.

 

VC Winner…

1917: John Cunningham of Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment in WW1, Bois-en-Hache, France.

1915: Robert Morrow of Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria’s) in WW1, Messines, Belgium.

1916: Shahamad Khan of 89th Punjab Regiment in WW1, Beit Ayeesa, Mesopotamia.

1915: George Wheeler of 7th Hariana Lancers in WW1, Shaiba, Mesopotamia.

Also…

1861 – Confederates fire on Fort Sumter, Charleston…starting American Civil War

happy birthday…

1947 – Tom Clancy