101 years ago today 14/6/1915: Private J Axson (Age 32) 1st Bn. Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, Belgium. Son of James and Emma Axson. Native of Congleton, Cheshire.

100 years ago today 14/6/1916: Private Laurence Charles Beesley 1st/5th Bn. Hebuterne Military Cemetery, France.

Private  F Brown (Age 24) 16th Bn. Liverpool (Ford) Roman Catholic Cemetery, United Kingdom.

Meanwhile in World War 2:  

NIL

VC Winner…

1917: William Ratcliffe of Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) in WW1, Messines, Belgium.

Also…

1645 – Battle of Naseby

1777 – Starts and Stripes becomes official USA flag

1789 – William Bligh and his crew make Timor (7,600km in an open boat)

1919 – Alcock and Brown

1940 – first inmates arrive at Auschwitz

1982 – Argentinian forces in Port Stanley surrender (“There is a white flag flying over Stanley…..Bloody Marvellous”)

Happy birthday…

1961 – Boy George