Category Archives: ww2

December 30th

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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.

 

December 29th

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101 years ago today 29/12/1914: Remembering Private Cornelius Bamford (Age 22) 1st Bn. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Son of William and Isabella Bamford, of Back Arthur St., Bury; husband of Marie Waldron (Formerly Bamford), of 2, Parson’S Court, Elton, Bury.

100 years ago today 29/12/1915: Remembering: Private A Gray 11th Bn. Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France.

 

Meanwhile in World War 2:

29/12/1939: Lance Corporal Percival William Walter Hookway (Age 37) 2nd Bn. Tiverton Cemetery, United Kingdom. Son of Walter Venton Hookway and Alice Maud Hookway, of Tiverton; Stepson of Mrs. A. B. A. Hookway, of Tiverton.

29/12/1940: Lance Corporal William Joseph Albert McGowan (Age 22) 1st Bn. Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt. Son of William and Annie McGowan, of Birkenhead.

VC today:

29 December 1877: Hans Moore 88th Regiment of Foot in 9th Cape Frontier War at King William’s Town, Cape Colony.

 

 

also today…

1170 – Thomas Becket (Arch Bishop of Canterbury) killed…

1890 – massacre at Wounded Knee

1895 – Jameson Raid in South Africa (helped start Second Boer War)

1939 – First flight of Consolidated LIberator B-24

 

 

December 28th

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101 years ago today 28/12/1914: Remembering Private  RW Hannan 15th Bn. Birkenhead (Flaybrick Hill) Cemetery, United Kingdom.

 

100 years ago today 28/12/1915: Remembering Private  F Morton (Age 23) 10th Bn. Le Touquet-Paris Plage Communal Cemetery, France. Son of Thomas and A. Morton, of 11, Park Rd. Hadfield, Manchester.

Private Charles Sims (Age 34) 11th Bn. Rifle House Cemetery, Belgium. Husband of Elizabeth Ann Taylor (formerly Sims), of 34, Weston St., South Reddish, Stockport.

Serjeant T Lockley DCM (Age 23) 1st/5th Bn. Suzanne Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Son of Thomas and Ellen Lockley, of 26, Louise St., Garden Lane, Chester.

 

Meanwhile in World War 2:

28/12/1944: Private Norman William Housley (Age 26) 6th Bn. Forli War Cemetery, Italy. Son of Charles and Mary Housley, of Normacot, Staffordshire.

 

 

December 27th

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100 years ago today 27/12/1915: Remembering Private  P Fowles (Age 27) 10th Bn. Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) Cemetery, Belgium. Son of William and Mary Jane Fowles, of 44, Townfields, Over, Winsford, Cheshire.

Private W Brown (Age 23) 9th Bn. St. Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L’avoue, France. Son of James and Betsy Louisa Brown, of Moss Nook, Cheadle, Cheshire.

 

Meanwhile in World War 2:

27/12/1940: Private Kenneth John Brooke Rowley (Age 17) Chester (Overleigh) Cemetery, United Kingdom. Son of Edmund Brooke Rowley and Louisa Margaret Rowley, of Guildford, Surrey.

27/12/1941: Private James William Hicks Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial, United Kingdom.

27/12/1943: Private Richard J Connor (Age 33) 22nd Bn. Wallasey (Rake Lane) Cemetery, United Kingdom. Son of Daniel and Elizabeth Connor, of Wallasey.

Happy birthday…

1948 – Gerard Depardieu

 

December 26th

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100 years ago today 26/12/1915: Remembering Private Joseph Brassey 9th Bn. Merville Communal Cemetery, France. Son of Joseph Brassey, of Thornton Hough, Birkenhead.

 

 

Meanwhile in World War 2:

26/12/1941: Lance Corporal Frank Connor (Age 28) 2nd Bn. Khayat Beach War Cemetery, Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)    .

26/12/1943: Corporal Francis Richardson (Age 32) 30th Bn. Radstock (St. Nicholas) Churchyard Extension, United Kingdom. Son of Francis and Elizabeth Maud Richardson; husband of Gwendoline May Richardson, of Radstock.

“A devoted husband and father. Gone but not forgotten.”

also today…

1943 – Scharnhorst sunk off Norway

1944 – Bastogne releived

 

happy birthday….

1887 – Arthur Percival British General of WW2….survived first day of battle of the Somme (1/7/1916), went on to command troops in Singapore in 1941, in time to surrender.

 

December 25th

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Happy Christmas……

 

100 years ago today 25/12/1915: Remembering Private J Jones 9th Bn. St. Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L’avoue, France.

 

Meanwhile in World War 2:

25/12/1939: Private Johnston Frederick Reynolds (Age 49) 8th (H.D.) Bn. Elton (All Saints) Churchyard, Lancashire, United Kingdom. Son of Frederic Johnston Reynolds and Arabella Margaret Reynolds, of Elton, Bury; husband of Alice Reynolds, of Ainsworth.

25/12/1943: Corporal John Darlington (Age 25) 6th Bn. Minturno War Cemetery, Italy. Son of Alexander and Eliza Darlington, of Sutton, St. Helens, Lancashire.

25/12/1943: Private Joseph Henry Johns (Age23) 6th Bn. Minturno War Cemetery, Italy. Son of Thomas Reed Johns and Annie Johns; husband of Phyllis Rosalind Johns, of Tuckingmill, Cornwall.

25/12/1944: Corporal Maurice    M Cadden (Age 24) 2nd Bn. Leopoldsburg War Cemetery, Belgium. Son of Joseph and Elsie Cadden, of Bury, Lancashire.

25/12/1944: Corporal Albert James Green (Age 24) 2nd Bn. Leopoldsburg War Cemetery, Belgium. Son of Albert Edward and Mary Jane Green, of Monkseaton, Northumberland.

 

 

 

December 23rd

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98 years ago today 23/12/1917: Remembering Private Walter Hallworth 8th Bn. Basra Memorial, Iraq.

Private HR Bithell 10th Bn. Gosforth (St. Nicholas) Churchyard, United Kingdom.

 

Meanwhile in World War 2:

23/12/1940: Private Albert Edward Trueman (Age 35) 4th Bn. Worksop (Retford Road) Cemetery, United Kingdom. Son of John Edward and Clara Trueman, of Worksop; husband of Annie Elizabeth Trueman, of Worksop.

23/12/1941: Private Ronald Yates (Age 23) 1st Bn. Pembroke Military Cemetery, Malta. Son of Charles and Jane M. Yates, of Buglawton, Cheshire.

 

also today…

1968 – 82 crew members of USS Pueblo released by North Korea

December 21st

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In WW1 Remembering:

21/12/1914: Private Harry Turner (Age 19) 1st Bn. St. Peter-In-Thanet Churchyard, United Kingdom. Son of Tom Cyrus Turner and Mary Jane Turner, of Altrincham, Cheshire.

21/12/1917: Private WE Roberts 21st Bn. Hamburg Cemetery, Germany.

21/12/1918: Private C Sherratt 2nd Bn. Congleton (St. Stephen) Churchyard, United Kingdom.

21/12/1918: Private H Sherwood 1st Bn. Hamburg Cemetery, Germany.

 

Meanwhile in World War 2:

21/12/1943: Second Lieutenant Victor William Wood (Age 26) Sangro River War Cemetery, Italy. Son of Irene Ruth Wood; husband of Marjorie Alice Wood, of Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, Manchester.

also today…

1988 – Lockerbie bombin Pan Am flight 103 (killing 270)

happy birthday…

1804 – Benjamin Disraeli

1917 – Heinrich Boll

1948 – Samuel L Jackson

1957 – Ray Romano

and we lost…..

1945 – George S Patton (US General)

1957 – Eric Coates (English composer and writer of “Dam Busters” theme)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 18th

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100 years ago today 18/12/1915: Remembering Serjeant William Maddocks (Age 37) 8th Bn. Hale Cemetery, United Kingdom. Husband of Florence Maddocks, of 14, Oakfield St., Altrincham.

Private Harold Hancock (Age 23) 10th Bn. Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) Cemetery, Belgium. Son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Hancock, of 21, Fowls Place, Nrthwich, Cheshire.

 

Meanwhile in World War 2:

18/12/1939: Private Frederick Slade (Age 20) 5th Bn. Helsby Cemetery, United Kingdom. Son of William Thomas Slade and Nancy Slade, of Helsby.

18/12/1943: Private Egbert Keall (Age 25) 7th Bn. Sangro River War Cemetery, Italy. Son of John and Margaret Keall, of Gateshead, Co. Durham.

 

 

also today…

218BC – battle of Trebia in Second Punic War: Hannibal beat Romans

1916 – end of battel of Verdun

happy birthday…

1878 – Joseph Stalin

1946 – Steven Speilberg (BTW thanks for ‘Jaws’, ‘Schindlers List’ and ‘Saving Private Ryan’)

1954 – Ray Liotta (great in ‘Goodfellas’)

1963 – Brad Pitt (‘Snatch’)

and we lost…

2000 – Kirsty MacColl

 

 

December 17th

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100 years ago today 17/12/1915: Remembering Lance Corporal  Walter Long (Age 38) 1st Bn. St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France. Son of Patrick and Esther Long, of Hyde; husband of S. H. Long, of 43, Hallbottom St., Newton, Hyde.

 

Meanwhile in World War 2:

17/12/1939: Private Joseph Glyn Clarke (Age 22) 1st Bn. Khartoum War Cemetery, Sudan. Son of William and Elizabeth Knappett, of Churton, Cheshire.

17/12/1940: Private William Henry Blease (Age 20) 5th Bn. Northwich Cemetery, United Kingdom. Son of Harry and Ellen Blease, of Greenbank, Northwich.

17/12/1944: Serjeant Walter George Burwell (Age 27) Darlington North Cemetery, United Kingdom. Husband of Elnora Burwell, of Darlington.

17/12/1946: Serjeant A Latham (Age 44) Rome War Cemetery, Italy. Son of John and Elizabeth Latham; husband of Selina Latham of Leicester.

 

also of interest (well, to me anyway..)….

1903: Wright brothers make first controlled flight….

1939: Admiral Graf Spee scuttled by Captain Langsdorff

1944: Malmedy massacre US POWs murdered