Remembering Colour Sergeant Mark Powell, The Parachute Regiment and 22 SAS, died aged 37 when 2 Puma helicopters crashed near Taji, north of Baghdad, Iraq on the 15th April 2007. Mark was from Porthcawl, South Wales. #Iraq

Remembering Sergeant Mark McLaren, Royal Air Force, died aged 27 when 2 Puma helicopters crashed near Taji, north of Baghdad, Iraq on the 15th April 2007. Mark was from Ashington, Northumberland. #Iraq

Remembering Sergeant Philip Saunders, Worcestershire Regiment, died 80 years ago today on the 15th April 1944 aged 26. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/casualty/saund… #WW2 The Kohima Educational Trust

Remembering Lance Corporal John Perkins, Worcestershire Regiment, died 80 years ago today on the 15th April 1944 aged 26. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/casualty/perki… #WW2 The Kohima Educational Trust

Remembering Private James Knott, Worcestershire Regiment, died 80 years ago today on the 15th April 1944 aged 21. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/casualty/knott… #WW2 The Kohima Educational Trust

Remembering Private Cecil Franklin, Worcestershire Regiment, died 80 years ago today on the 15th April 1944 aged 29. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/casualty/frank… #WW2 The Kohima Educational Trust

Lost his life this day 15th.April 1941.

PO. Alexander Richard Ross.

One of THE FEW.
bbm.org.uk/airmen/RossAR.…

He was shot down by return fire from a Ju88
over Portsmouth.
His Spitfire crashed into the sea.
A Royal Naval vessel recovered his body.
Age 21.

Lost his life this day 15th.April 1941.
Adj. Pierre Michel Blaize.
( Pierre left..with his brother George)
French One of THE FEW.
bbm.org.uk/airmen/Blaize.…
He was attacked by two Me109s.
He crashed into the sea but only his Parachute was found.

Born this day 15th. April 1915.

PO. Antonin Velebnovsky.

Czech One of THE FEW.
bbm.org.uk/airmen/Velebno…

Killed in a night flying accident.
His body was found the next day in his wrecked Hurricane in a wood.

Age 26.

Born this day 15th. April 1920.

Sgt. Leslie Raymond Carter.

One of THE FEW.
bbm.org.uk/airmen/CarterL…

He was reported Missing when his Spitfire was shot down by Me109s near Lille.
Age 21.

Remembering Nurse Florence Jones, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service for India, died on the 14th April 1919: cwgc.org/find-war-dead/… #nurses

Born this day 14th.April 1917.

PO. Franciszek Kozlowski. KW.
Polish One of THE FEW.
bbm.org.uk/airmen/Kozlows…

Killed when his Spitfire was shot down near Neufchatel.
He is buried in Dieppe Canadian Cemetery, France.

Remembering Sister Sarah Butler, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, accidentally drowned on the 14th April 1916. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurse/butler-s… #WW1 #nurses

PO. Sydney Russell Gane.

One of THE FEW.
bbm.org.uk/airmen/Gane.htm

Attacked by two Me109s he was shot down.
He was able to bale out but the two Messerschmitts machine-gunned him while he descended.
Age 20.

Remembering Senior Aircraftman Graham Livingstone, Royal Air Force Regiment, killed when the vehicle he was travelling in was caught in an explosion in the Daman District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan on the 13th April 2008 aged 23. Graham was from Glasgow. #Afghanistan

Remembering Senior Aircraftman Gary Thompson, Royal Auxiliary Air Force Regiment, killed when the vehicle he was travelling in was caught in an explosion in the Daman District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan on the 13th April 2008 aged 51. Gary was from Nottingham. #Afghanistan

Remembering Private Chris Gray, 1st Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment, killed in action during an exchange of fire with Taliban fighters, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on the 13th April 2007 aged 19. Chris was from Leicestershire. #Afghanistan #RoyalAnglianRegiment

Born this day 13th.April 1915.

Sgt. Vaclav Brejcha.

Czech One of THE FEW.
bbm.org.uk/airmen/Brejcha…

He was killed whilst flying a Tiger Moth which spun into the sea off Southwold in Suffolk.
He is buried in Scottow Cemetery, Norfolk.

Born this day 13th.April 1914.

Sgt. Peter Ethelbert Merrick Robinson.

One of THE FEW.
bbm.org.uk/airmen/Robinso…
His Hurricane was shot down by Me109s over the Channel.
When his body was taken from the sea 4 days later it was riddled with bullets!!

Remembering Nurse Zina Blackburn, died from Scarlet Fever on the 13th April 1915 aged 54, not commemorated by the CWGC, VAD index card, photo with a date of death, death registration in the June Quarter 1915. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurse/blackbur… #WW1 #nurses