101 years ago today 19/6/1915: Private F Platt 2nd Bn. Elzenwalle Brasserie Cemetery, Belgium.

Private  G Wright 2nd Bn. Elzenwalle Brasserie Cemetery, Belgium.

Private William Scott 6th Bn. Stockport (Willow Grove) Cemetery, United Kingdom.

Private William Hoyle (Age 25) 1st Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Son of Catherine Carson (formerly Hoyle), of 17, Back Water St., Portwood, Stockport, and the late Frank Hoyle.

 

100 years ago today 19/6/1916:

NIL

 

Meanwhile in World War 2:  

1944: Private Douglas William Keel (Age 32) 2nd Bn. Bayeux War Cemetery, France. Son of William and Charlotte Minnie Keel; husband of Elsie Lilian Keel, of Fishponds, Gloucestershire.

Private Stanley Noden (Age 29) 2nd Bn. Bayeux War Cemetery, France. 

Private William Roughley (Age 29) 2nd Bn. Bayeux War Cemetery, France. Son of Harry and Margaret Feilding Roughley; husband of Doris Roughley, of Atherton, Lancashire.

Private Frederick William Wright (Age 33) 2nd Bn. Bayeux War Cemetery, France. Son of Frederick William and Jane Eliza Wright; husband of Alice Wright, of Woodford Green, Essex.

 

VC Winner…

1857: Thomas Hancock of 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers in Indian Mutiny, Delhi, India.

1857: John Purcell of 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers in Indian Mutiny, Delhi, India.

1857: Samuel Turner of 60th Rifles in Indian Mutiny, Delhi, India.

1896: Randolph Nesbitt of Mashonaland Mounted Police in Mashona Rebellion, Salisbury, Rhodesia.

1941: Roden Cutler of Royal Australian Artillery in WW2, Merdjayoun-Damour, Lebanon.

 

Also…

1953 -Rosenberg’s executed in Sing Sing

Happy Birthday…

1861 – Douglas Haig

1896 – Wallis Simpson

1964 – Boris Johnson