Cheshires – 7th March 2017

100 years ago today 7/3/1917: Private Herbert Pearce (Age 21) 16th Bn. Cerisy-Gailly Military Cemetery, France. Son of the late Garnett William and Jane Pearce.

Private T W Bird (Age 28) 19th Bn. Etaples Military Cemetery, France. Son of Andrew and Emma Bird, of Adforton, Leintwardine, Herefordshire.

Regimental Serjeant Major Charles Edward Berry 2nd Bn. Madras 1914-1918 War Memorial, Chennai, India. Buried in Jamalpur Railway Cemetery.

 

WW2:

1942 Private James Rogers (Age 31) 2nd Bn. Heliopolis War Cemetery, Egypt.

1943 Private John William Hill 30th Bn. Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial, United Kingdom.

1944 Serjeant Robert Thomas Benson (Age 30) 6th Bn. Cassino Memorial, Italy. Son of Robert and Laura Benson, of Woolwich, London; husband of Doreen Benson, of Marylebone, London.

1944 Private John Evans (Age 26) 6th Bn. Cassino Memorial, Italy. Son of Edward and Jane Evans, of Stockport, Cheshire.

 

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