Edited…due to me posting April info…sorry about that

101 years ago today 4/5/1915: Private Fred Holt (Age 20) “C” Coy. 10th Bn. Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Son of Margaret Holt, of 45, Oxford St., Heaton Norris, Stockport, and the late William Holt.

Serjeant J Disley 3rd Bn. Birkenhead (Flaybrick Hill) Cemetery, United Kingdom.  

 

All commemorated on Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium

Private Archibald Ball 1st Bn.      

Private John Carney (Age 42) 1st Bn. Son of William and Mary Carney.

Private John Gibbons (Age 27) 1st Bn. Son of Ann Gibbons, of Go, Bridgefield St., Stockport, and the late Michael Gibbons.

Private Ernest Lightfoot (Age 42) 2nd Bn. Son of Robert and Mary Lightfoot, of Whitegate, Northwich; husband of Charlotte Lightfoot, of 116, Lydyett Lane, Barnton, Northwich, Cheshire.

Private Charles Edward Mansell 2nd Bn.

Private William Norbury (Age 33) 1st Bn. Son of William and Eliza Norbury; husband of Elizabeth Ann Norbury, of 181, Stockport Rd., Gee Cross, Hyde, Cheshire.

Private Harry Plumtree 1st Bn.

Private Martin Sheen 1st Bn.

Private George Woodward 2nd Bn.

 

100 years ago today 4/5/1916: Private Richard Broadhurst (Age 23) 3rd Coy. 13th Bn. Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Son of Richard and Alice Broadhurst.

Lance Serjeant W Ashton 10th Bn. Ecoivres Military Cemetery, Mont-St. Eloi, France.       

Private Walter Ellis (Age 19) 13th Bn. Etaples Military Cemetery, France. Son of John and Laura Ellis, of 60, College Drive, Woodhey, Bebington, Cheshire. Native of Tranmere, Cheshire.

Private JJ Davies 6th Reserve Bn. Stockport Borough Cemetery, United Kingdom.

 

Meanwhile in World War 2:

1941: Private Sidney Hopkins (Age 21) Swindon (Christ Church) Burial Ground, United Kingdom. Son of Annie Hopkins, of Swindon.

1944: Warrant Officer Class II BL Preston (Age 36) Cardiff (Llandaff) Cemetery, United Kingdom. Son of Bertram John Leonard and Eliza Preston, of Cardiff.

 

VC Winner…

1889: Ferdinand Le Quesne of Royal Army Medical Corps in British rule in Burma, Tartan, Burma.

1944: John Randle of Royal Norfolk Regiment in WW2, Kohima, India.

 

Also…..

Star Wars Day…

1926 – General Strike

1932  – Al Capone starts prison sentence

1945 – Germans surrender to Monty on Luneberg Heath, Germany

1979 – Mrs Thatcher wins general election (good on you Maggie)

 

happy birthday…

1910 – Royal Canadian Navy