101 years ago today 25/4/1915: Private Ronald Marchant Sykes (Age 20) 1st Bn. Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium. Son of Walter and Maud Sykes, of 242, Jesmond Terrace, Wyke Lane, Wyke, Bradford. Native of Halifax.

Private Charles Chadwick (Age 33) 1st Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Husband of Martha Hannah Johnson (formerly Chadwick), of 1A, Fletcher’S Court, John St., Hillgate, Stockport.

Private Frank Gargan 1st Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.      

Private Thomas Thomson (Age 21) 2nd Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Son of Mrs. S. M. Thomson, of 54, Devonport St., Ratcliffe London.

 

100 years ago today 25/4/1916: Lieutenant WBH Parker 14th Bn. attd. 8th Bn. Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq.      

Private Thomas Esmonde O’Shea (Age 26) 2nd Garrison Bn. Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt. Son of Thomas Albert and Clara O’Shea, of 10, Elm St., Gorton, Manchester. Born at Birmingham.

Private W Rhodes (Age 24) 10th Bn. Ecoivres Military Cemetery, Mont-St. Eloi, France. Son of Walter Rhodes, of 2, Sandon St., Crewe.

Private H Duckworth 1st/6th Bn. Rue-Des-Berceaux Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L’Avoue, France.        

 

Meanwhile in World War 2:

1942: Corporal Albert Henry Johnson (Age 28) 1st Bn. Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta. Son of Frederic Edmund and Mary Agnes Johnson.

1945: Private George H. Thompson (Age 25) 6th Bn. Argenta Gap War Cemetery, Italy. Son of Joseph and Fanny Gertrude Thompson, of Stockport, Cheshire.

 

Korean War…

1951: 2nd Lieutenant George David RUDGE, (Age 20) Cheshire Regiment, Attached to: Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Killed in action. Grave Location: No known grave. Commemorated on the UN Wall of Remembrance, Pusan, Korea.

VC Winner…

1915: Cuthbert Bromley of Lancashire Fusiliers in WW1, Gallipoli, Turkey.

1915: John Grimshaw of Lancashire Fusiliers in WW1, Gallipoli, Turkey.

1915: William Kenealy of Lancashire Fusiliers in WW1, Gallipoli, Turkey.

1915: Alfred Richards of Lancashire Fusiliers in WW1, Gallipoli, Turkey.

1915: Frank Stubbs of Lancashire Fusiliers in WW1, Gallipoli, Turkey.

1915: Richard Willis of Lancashire Fusiliers in WW1, Gallipoli, Turkey.

….6 VCs before breakfast

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/inside-first-world-war/part-six/10607886/gallipoli-landing-victoria-crosses.html

1915: George Drewry of Royal Naval Reserve in WW1, Gallipoli, Turkey.

1915: Wilfred Malleson of HMS River Clyde in WW1, Gallipoli, Turkey.

1915: George Samson of Royal Naval Reserve in WW1, Gallipoli, Turkey.

1915: Francis Scrimger of Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps in WW1, Saint-Julien, Belgium.

1915: Arthur Tisdall of Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in WW1, Gallipoli, Turkey.

1915: Edward Unwin of HMS River Clyde in WW1, Gallipoli, Turkey.

1915: William Williams of HMS River Clyde in WW1, Gallipoli, Turkey.

1917: Albert Ball of No. 56 Squadron RFC in WW1, Over France.

Also…

1915 – landings in Dardanelles (Gallipoli)

1943 – Demjansk shield instituted

1916+ – ANZAC Day…..Samford, QLD 2106

 

 

happy birthday….

1599 – Oliver Cromwell

1862 – Edward Grey (“Lights have gone out all over Europe….”)