5 April 1918 Pte Henry Bush (306620) 1/8 Bn Lancashire Fusiliers was killed in action and has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Henry is also remembered at the University of Manchester #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
5 April 1916 Pte Thomas Lloyd (12233) of 8 Bn Cheshire Regiment was killed in action and is commemorated on the Basra War Memorial.
Thomas is also remembered on the Bredbury & Romiley War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
5 April 1918 Sous-Lt (2nd Lt) Paul William Arthur Brölemann of 12th Cuirassiers à pied was killed in action and was buried at Donmartin sur Noye.
Paul is remembered at @pembroke1347.bsky.social
and @charterhousesch.bsky.social
#WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
5 April 1918 Private James Mortimer Goodwin (84688) 4th Cavalry Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps, died of wounds and was buried in the St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen
James is also remembered inside the Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
5 April 1916 Pte Edward Cheetham (26212) 8 Bn Cheshire Regiment died and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial
Edward is also remembered inside the Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
5 April 1918 Private Peter Hooley (87942) 13 Bn The King's (Liverpool Regiment) died from wounds and was buried in the Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery.
Peter is also remembered inside the Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
5 April 1916 Pte Tom Adshead (17232) of 7 Bn North Staffordshire Regiment was killed in action and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial. Tom was 23.
Tom is also remembered inside the Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
5 April 1919 Serjeant Joseph Tumbelty (49424) of the Machine Gun Corps died and was buried in the Chanak Consular Cemetery, Turkey
Joseph is also remembered inside the Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
5 April 1918 2nd Lt Thomas Lines MC DCM of 16 Bn Lancashire Fusiliers died from wounds and was buried in the Quesnoy Farm Military Cemetery
Thomas is also remembered inside the Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
5 April 1916 2nd Lt Percy Charles Hilton 10 Bn Norfolk Regiment was killed in action and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial.
Percy is also remembered at St Catharine's College, Cambridge
#WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
5 April 1918 Pte Leonard Brown (243265) of 11 Bn Cheshire Regiment was killed in action and has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial. Leonard was 19.
Leonard is also remembered on the Cheadle Hulme War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
5 April 1917 Pte George Harrison Hayward (50503) 1 Bn Royal Fusiliers was killed in action and was buried in the Fosse No. 10 Communal Cemetery Extension.
George is also remembered at @kebleoxford.bsky.social
#WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
#OTD in 1918, Albert area, France. The Whippet tank. A lighter, faster and cheaper tank than the first tanks made. #WW1 #HISTORY
I thought this was #interesting. 1914 and 2026 have the exact same calendar. 1914 was the start of #WW1.
It started in #July
4 Apr 1918 // HM Drifter J & A, a former Buckie boat in naval service as a patrol vessel, sank after being in a collision with SS Avocet in the North Sea about 150 miles east of Bridlington. No lives were lost. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
Royal Navy destroyer HMS Bittern. Imperial War Museum image: Q 42670. Description: a profile view of the port side of a small warship in harbour, with the shoreline, buildings and other vessels visible in the background.
4 Apr 1918 // Destroyer HMS Bittern was rammed in thick fog by merchantman SS Kenilworth off the Isle of Portland and sank with all 60 crew lost. The enquiry placed the blame on the Kenilworth, which was off course and showing no lights. (Imperial War Museum: Q 42670) #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
Royal Navy submarine HMS E.8. Imperial War Museum image: HU 57612. Description: a submarine under way very slowly on the surface, her bows towards the camera, and many men visible on her conning tower and casing.
4 Apr 1918 // HM Submarines E.8 and C.26, part of a British submarine flotilla in the Baltic, were scuttled at Helsinki. The Royal Navy did not want them falling into the hands of either the advancing Germans or the Bolsheviks. (Image: HMS E.8 IWM HU 57612) #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
Nice discovery this evening ... a relative of my wife's served in the 3rd, later 2nd, Tyneside Irish. Taken POW. Like almost all of her northeastern family, he lived in Cowpen, Blyth. An Easter project for me. #ww1 #genealogy
Great Western Railwaymen who lost their lives in the First World War #WW1 #GWR
George Harris (Relaying labourer Stourbridge Jct)
Able Seaman HMS Good Hope
The ship was lost (with all hands) on 1/11/14 during the first major naval battle ‘Coronel’ off the coast of Chile.
Harris was 34
Ranyard nurses” established by Ellen Ranyard were very active on the Home Front during #WW1 particularly with poorer families. Duties included referrals to doctors and hospitals, inspecting infants in mother’s meetings, and encouraging medical self-help among the poor
#NursingHistory
Who is attending this (UK)?
livinghistoryfestival.wordpress.com
#WW1 #Reenactment #LivingHistory #Heritage #Museum
Planning and excitement is starting to build for livinghistoryfestival.wordpress.com . We will be depicting a detachment of RND ( Drake Batt.) returning to the Front after wounds in April '16. Seamanship, close combat, Machine Gun crewing - lots of training happening! #WW1 #RoyalNavy #LivingHistory
Just got my author copies! Out in all good bookshops from Thursday 9th April! @wiltonsquare.bsky.social Or you can order straight from the publisher’s website or all the usual.
#arras #battleofarras #ww1
4 April 1916 Lance Corporal Sydney Buxton (2891) 6 Bn Cheshire Regiment died and was buried in the Pont-du-Hem Military Cemetery.
Sydney is also remembered inside the Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
4 April 1922 2nd Lt Hugh Owen Roberts of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers died at Victoria Cottage Hospital, Abergavenny, from the effects of war. He was buried in St Rhwydrus Church, Llanrhwydrys.
Hugh is also remembered at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
#WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
4 April 1916 2nd Lt Henry Nicholson Lechler 10 Bn South Lancashire Regiment was killed in action and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial. Henry was 21.
Henry is also remembered at the University of Manchester #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
4 April 1918 Pte Albert Victor Rogers (8/32352) 8 Bn East Surrey Regiment and former Aston Villa, Bristol Rovers
@qpr.co.uk and Walsall player was killed in action and buried in the Crucifix Corner Cemetery #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
Between 4 and 5 April 1916 2nd Lt Matthew Bank Newell 14 Bn Cheshire Regiment was killed in action and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial.
Matthew is also remembered at the University of Manchester #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
