Remembering Oradour-sur-Glane, French Village wiped out by SS in their way to Normandy in 1944…

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100 years ago today 10/6/1917: Private S Chadwick 13th Bn. Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium.

Serjeant M J Donegan 13th Bn. Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium.

Private S Hill 13th Bn. Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery, Belgium.

Private Frederick George Bunce (Age 17) 13th Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Son of Mrs. Martha Bunce.

Private Phillip Buswell (Age 32) 9th Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Son of Charles John and Mary Buswell, of 46, Old Mill Lane, Barnsley. A railway clerk.

Private Alfred Coop (Age 23) 10th Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Son of Mrs. Louisa Coop, of 33, Moorbottom Rd., Thanton Lodge, Huddersfield; husband of Kathleen A. Coop, of 99, Laund Rd., Salendine Nook, Huddersfield.

Private Samuel Charles Denny Hunter 13th Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

Private Peter O’kell (Age 33) 13th Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Son of William O’Kell; husband of Harriet O’Kell, of 41, Canal St., Runcorn, Cheshire.

Private Christopher Reek 13th Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

Private Edward Irving Woods 10th Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

Private G Ashbourne 11th Bn. Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France.

Private H E Dayas 13th Bn. Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France.

Private P Wright 11th Bn. Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, France.

 

WW2:

1940 Private John Newton Keirle (Age 35) Pornic War Cemetery, France. Son of Charles and Gwladys Ann Keirle, of Pontypridd, Glamorgan.

1942 Private Arthur Graley (Age 24) 2nd Bn. Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Libya. Son of John and Annie Gertrude Graley, of St. Helen’s, Lancashire.

1944 Private John Mccarthy (Age 28) 2nd Bn. Bayeux War Cemetery, France. Son of John McCarthy (killed in France, 1915) and Isabella McCarthy, of Newcastle-on-Tyne.

1944 Private Walter Oldham (Age 27) 2nd Bn. Bayeux War Cemetery, France. Son of Walter and Eliza Oldham; husband of Elizabeth Oldham, of Romiley, Cheshire.

1944 Lance Serjeant George Price (Age 25) Hermanville War Cemetery, France. Son of George Stubbs Price and Florence Price, of Walney, Lancashire.

1944 Private Joseph Royle (Age 24) 2nd Bn. Bayeux War Cemetery, France. Son of Joseph and Mary Royle, of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.

1944 Private Ralph Sherwin (Age 23) 7th Bn. Salerno War Cemetery, Italy. Son of Ralph and Beatrice Sherwin, of Hyde, Cheshire; husband of Lily Mary Sherwin, of Gee Cross, Hyde.