101 years ago today 16/4/1915: Private Harry Taylor 1st Bn. Tuileries British Cemetery, Belgium.

Private Fred Mathison 2nd Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.  

Private Michael Patterson 2nd Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Father of Eileen Patterson, of 27, Seavill St., Broughton, Chester.

Private Arthur Redfern 2nd Bn.  Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

 

100 years ago today 16/4/1916: Lieutenant John Cullimore Twice MID (Age 21) 8th Bn. Amara War Cemetery, Iraq. Son of John and Mary E. Cullimore, of Christleton, Chester. Also served at Gallipoli.

Private Francis O’Sullivan (Age 34) “C” Coy. 8th Bn. Basra Memorial, Iraq. Son of Daniel O’Sullivan, of Borris, Co. Carlow; husband of Elizabeth O’Sullivan, of 15, Upper Buckingham St., Dublin.

Serjeant S Icke 8th Bn. Basra War Cemetery, Iraq.            

Lance Corporal FA Newling 9th Bn. Rue-Des-Berceaux Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L’Avoue, France.

 

Meanwhile in World War 2:

1945: Lance Corporal Charles Alexander Barlow (Age 37) 1st Bn. Becklingen War Cemetery, Germany.

 

VC Winner…

1918: Jack Counter of King’s (Liverpool Regiment) in WW1, Boisieux St. Marc, France.

 

Also….

73 – Masada fall to the Romans

1746 – battle of Culloden

1894 – Manchester City formed (Ardwick AFC)

1912 – Harriet Quimby, first woman to fly over the channel (the day after Titanic sank, not much coverage)…hats off to Harriet

happy birthday…

1918 – Spike Milligan

 

Harriet Quimby (1912)