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On this day in 1917, Frank Berry (1892-1917) was killed in the Battle of Cambrai in France. Frank was 25 and a private in the 17th Battalion of the Welsh Regiment when he lost his life in fierce fighting in a heavily bomb-damaged Bourlon Wood in a tank-led offensive. His death was announced in … [Read more...] about ON THIS DAY…November 25, 1917: Frank is killed in Battle of Cambrai

On this day in 1917, John Owen (1882-1917) died from wounds sustained in an attack on enemy soldiers in France. John, a sergeant, lost his life after his battalion – the 17th Welsh Regiment – helped in an attack on Bourlon Wood, near Cambrai in the winter of 1917. Commonwealth War Graves … [Read more...] about ON THIS DAY…November 24, 1917: John dies after attack on Bourlon Wood

On this day in 1917, Arthur Charles James Boden (1895-1917) was killed in action while serving in the 24th (Wessex) Field Ambulance of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Great War. Arthur, who was 21, died 16 years after his father – Arthur Finley – was killed in the Second Boer War in South … [Read more...] about ON THIS DAY…November 19, 1917: Arthur killed on Western Front

On this day in 1918, James Richards (1872-1918) died from pneumonia, two days after the end of the Great War. James was 42 and a carpenter and wheelwright when he enlisted in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in September 1915. A private, he worked as a ‘wheeler’, or wheelwright, in the RAOC – … [Read more...] about ON THIS DAY…November 13, 1918: James dies from pneumonia two days after Armistice

On this day in 1944, William Henry Marshall (1899-1944) died in the Second World War while serving as a captain in the Royal Indian Engineers. He was 44. He was buried in Rawalpindi War Cemetery in Pakistan. His war grave includes the inscription: ‘But here within this soul of mine I know that … [Read more...] about ON THIS DAY…November 13, 1944: William dies in Second World War

On this day in 1917, John Charles Earl (1886-1917) was killed in the Battle of Passchendaele in the Great War. John Charles – who was known as Charles – was a private in the 1st Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. He was 31 when he lost his life. He initially enlisted in the … [Read more...] about ON THIS DAY…November 6, 1917: Charles killed in Battle of Passchendaele

On this day in 1917, William ‘Willie’ Henwood Johns (1891-1917) died in Palestine in the Great War. William was a lieutenant in the Auckland Mounted Rifles of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force when he lost his life. He was 25. Official records show that he was ‘killed in action’. However, … [Read more...] about ON THIS DAY…October 31, 1917: William dies in Palestine

On this day in 1944, Gordon ‘Jim’ Streets (1919-1944) died of wounds sustained in action in Italy in the Second World War. Jim, a trooper in the Reconnaissance Corps of the Royal Armoured Corps, died on October 30, 1944 in Cesena. He was 25. Jim – previously wounded three times in 1944 – was … [Read more...] about ON THIS DAY…October 30, 1944: Jim dies of wounds in Italy

On this day in 1917, Percival ‘Percy’ Charles Worle (1888-1917) was killed in the Battle of Passchendaele. A corporal in B Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Canadian Mounted Rifles, Percy was 29. He emigrated to Canada in 1914 and was working as a farmer in Caron, Saskatchewan when he … [Read more...] about ON THIS DAY…October 29, 1917: Percy is killed in Battle of Passchendaele

On this day in 1917, Walter Tucker (1876-1917) died of wounds sustained on the blackest day of the Great War for the 8th and 9th Battalions of the Devonshire Regiment. He lost his life after an attack at Gheluvelt in Flanders on October 26, 1917 in the Third Battle of Ypres. Walter was among … [Read more...] about ON THIS DAY…October 26, 1917: Walter dies after blackest day of war for two Devonshire battalions