D-Day………..lest we forget

100 years ago today 6/6/1917: Private Joe Hilliard 10th Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

Corporal John Burke (Age 26) “Z” Coy. 15th Bn. La Chapelette British and Indian Cemetery, Peronne, France. Native of Leeds.

WW2:

1943 Private Alfred Harold Evans (Age 26) 4th Bn. Ellesmere Port (Overpool) Cemetery, United Kingdom. Son of Samuel and Annie Evans, of Ellesmere Port; husband of Violet Mary Evans, of Ellesmere Port.

1944 Private Robert Wilfred Hargreaves (Age 33) 2nd Bn. Bayeux War Cemetery, France. Son of Ernest Sawyer Hargreaves and Laura Hargreaves, of Stockport, Cheshire.