Cheshires – 26th January 2017

Happy Australia Day cobbers….

100 years ago today 26/1/1917: Private J Anderson 9th Bn. Couin British Cemetery, France. Son of Mr. J. Anderson, of 71, Vincent St., Crewe.

Private T Rafferty 20th Bn. St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France.

Lieutenant Charles John Watson (Age 24) “A” Coy. 10th Bn. attd. 8th Bn. Amara War Cemetery, Iraq. Son of Charles James and Mary Emma Watson, of “The Sycamores,” Broughton Park, Manchester. Gazetted Jan., 1915; wounded at Vimy Ridge April, 1916.

Serjeant Charles Burness Battersby (Age 24) 8th Bn. Basra Memorial, Iraq. Son of William Percy Battersby, of 40, Carrington Rd., Small Heath, Birmingham.

 

WW2:

NIL

 

 

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