101 years ago today 1/1/1915: Private Arthur Barber (Age 29) 1st Bn. Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France. Son of Mr. I. and Mrs. H. Barber; husband of Lottie Lee (formerly Barber), of 9, New Bridge Lane, Stockport.

 

100 years ago today 1/1/1916: Private William Tinsley (Age 52) 2nd Bn.   Birkenhead (Flaybrick Hill) Cemetery, United Kingdom. Son of John and Jane Tinsley; husband of Ellen Smith (formerly Tinsley), of 22, Shepherd St., Preston. Born at Wigan.

 

Meanwhile in World War 2:

1/01/1945: Private John White Edwards (Age 28) 6th Bn. Coriano Ridge War Cemetery, Italy. Son of Edward and Hilda Bertha Edwards, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; husband of Betty Rose Edwards, of High Wycombe.

 

 

1/01/2004: Sergeant Norman Patterson (Age 28) Cheshire; Two British soldiers were killed in a road traffic accident in Baghdad in the early hours.

 

VC Winners….

1889: John Crimmin of Bombay Medical Service in British rule in Burma, Karenni, Burma.

1945: George Thompson of No. 9 Squadron RAF in WW2, Dortmund-Ems Canal, Germany.

 

100 years ago today 30/12/1915: Remembering Lieutenant Colonel Henry Backhouse TD 7th Bn. Chatby Memorial, Egypt.

http://macclesfieldreflects.org.uk/1915/12/30/backhouse-henry-td/

 

Lance Corporal J King 11th Bn. London Rifle Brigade Cemetery, Belgium.

Private  William Royle Jenkinson 13th Bn. Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.

Private W Hulme 11th Bn. Rifle House Cemetery, Belgium.

 

Meanwhile in World War 2:

30/12/1940: Lance Serjeant William Robert Somerville 1st Bn. Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt.

 

30 December 1957: Private Kevin David BANCROFT 1/Cheshire; Malaysia.

 

100 years ago today 6/12/1915: Remembering Corporal John Lake 14th Bn. Stoke-On-Trent (Longton) Cemetery, United Kingdom.

 

Meanwhile in World War 2:

6/12/1942: Private Frederick Hurford Rimmer (Age 27) 1st Bn. Pembroke Military Cemetery, Malta. Husband of Gladys Rimmer, of Gzira, Malta.

6/12/1943: Private Joseph Turley (Age 22) 6th Bn. Minturno War Cemetery, Italy. Son of Kate Turley, of Denton, Lancashire.

 

6/12/1982: Northern Ireland: Droppin’ Well bar bombing, Ballykelly, County Londonderry, NI.

On the Saturday night when the pub was packed with 150 people, the INLA planted a bomb which was placed next to a structural column, causing the building to collapse. This atrocity killed 17 (including 8 members of the 1/Cheshires) and injured 30. The bar was rename “The Riverside Bar” in 2008.

 

Lance Corporal Steven Bagshaw, 21; Lance Corporal Clinton Collins, 20; Private David Murray, 18; Private Steven Smith, 24; Lance Corporal Philip McDonough, 26; Private Neil Williams, 18; Private Anthony S. Williamson, 20; Lance Corporal David Wilson-Stitt, 27 all from 1st Bn. Cheshire.

 

Private Terence Adams, 20 and Private Paul Delaney, 18; Army Catering Corps; Corporal David Salthouse, 23; 3/Light Infantry.

Alan Callaghan, 17; Ruth Dixon, 17; Patricia Cooke, 21 (Died on the 16th in hospital); Angela Hoole, 19; Valerie McIntyre, 21; Carol Watts, 25 all civilians.

 

 

For further information….

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droppin_Well_bombing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/events/droppin_well

 

Finally, I lifter this from the BBC report (above)…

“A Lance Corporal stationed at Ballykelly, anonymously recalled the bombing on the Shared Troubles website: “Life in Ballykelly was never the same for both our civilian friends and families and our own military community. There remained a sense of disbelief and cautious awareness by us all. The scars of 6th December 1982 will stay with many of us for all our lives. People have been affected in many different ways by the horrific events of that night”.”

(thanks to BBC news web site)

 

More recently….Afghanistan

6/12/2010: Lance Corporal Andrew Breeze (Age 31) B (Malta) Company, 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire) from Manchester, England. Cause Hostile – hostile fire, Nahr-e Saraj district, Afghanistan.

(photo from Manchester Evening News, thanks)