The following IFCP 'Non-Com' case has been accepted for CWGC commemoration. GREENSLADE, Herbert Eustace 05.03.18 Canadian Infantry

What a good idea!

Elizabeth Smith BBC Yorkshire Commonwealth War Graves Inspired by a previous tweet from you about these 'Our War Graves, Your History' Commonwealth War Graves pages I have done some work to add them all, plus a range of other links and a cemetery image as made available through Wikidata, to the corresponding cemetery pages eg astreetnearyou.org/cemetery/46040…

The following IFCP 'Non-Com' cases have been accepted for CWGC commemoration. FRANKS, Fred 03.06.20 MGC GRIMES, James 21.06.20 Labour Corps TAYLOR, Richard Holt 01.07.16 East Lancs Regt and the following from the West India Regt HENRY, Ebenezer 07.09.14 JONES, Theophilus 23.01.16

McCLAKEN, James 29.02.16 McLEISH, Arnold 07.06.17 VASSELL, Joseph Simon 31.07.17

The following IFCP 'Grave Find' has been verified by CWGC and it is now an official war grave in their care. CHINN, Lilian Ellen Nurse Voluntary Aid detachment Died 24.06.17 Age 23 Buried – Middlezoy (Holy Cross) Churchyard, Somerset, UK

The following IFCP 'Non-Com' cases have been accepted for CWGC commemoration. ASHWORTH, Wilfred 31.07.17 E Lancs Regt BROWN, George Arthur 11.11.17 RGA COHALL, 12.01.15 West India Regt CORINALDI, Lionel Owen 28.09.19 Middx Regt CRAIG, William 03.12.19 Gordon Highlanders

CUNNINGHAM, William 08.09.18 West India Regt FRANCIS, Frank 05.04.20 RFA GARVEY, George Toler Patrick 19.09.15 RMC Sandhurst HARRIS, John 20.07.20 MFP HART, John 13.05.19 Royal Scots Fusiliers JONES, Ernest 22.02.19 The Buffs McMAHON, Charles Leeford 23.10.15 West India Regt

MINOT, Timothy 23.10.15 West India Regt WALTERS, Morgan Isaac 21.02.21 Welch Regt

There are 4 new pages this week on the WW1 Lives web site (please note that this web site is not associated with this similarly named Twitter account!) - a Balloon Observer, a Royal Artillery War Hero, a Royal Scot and a Royal Dragoon from Bedfordshire. ww1lives.com/blog/

A really sad story of 2 American sisters ....

Four new research pages this week on the WW1 Lives site (not related to this Twitter account) are a Balloonist in the Flying Corps, a Royal Scot War Hero, a Naval ‘Destroyer’ Officer and a Warwickshire Yeomanry Shoeing-Smith. ww1lives.com/2020/12/15/thi…

Doris Procter, the daughter of a tailor and confectioner was born in Settle in 1892. She volunteered for V.A.D. service in 1914. She was based at a Military Hospital in Leicester where she caught influenza in December 1918 and died OTD. Two brothers served; one died.

The following IFCP 'Non-Com' cases have been accepted for CWGC commemoration. BRAIN, George James 22.12.19 SWB CHISHOLM, Andrew 27.05.18 ASC DAVID, Albert Edward 17.04.21 Welch Regt HOLLAND, Dennis 08.02.19 Welsh Regt MARSHALSEA, Cecil 04.02.21 MGC

VINES, Colin Stanley 15.02.19 RFA WILLIAMS, David Llewellyn 12.02.19 RFA

Todays four new profiles on ww1lives include a Volunteer Nurse from Kent, a New Zealander fighting in Gallipoli, a Burnley man in the Royal Army Medical Corps and a Royal Scots Fusilier teaching at Catterick. Please follow their Blog to get weekly updates. ww1lives.com/2020/12/22/thi…

Some of the faces of the Commonwealth casualties who died on Christmas Day during the First World War. Images via Imperial War Museums Lives of WW1 Amgueddfa RWF Museum Find more via 1914 - astreetnearyou.org/date/1914/12/25 1915 - astreetnearyou.org/date/1915/12/25 1916 - astreetnearyou.org/date/1916/12/25 ...

I'm struck by the portrait of Chaplain 2nd Class The Rev. Benjamin Garniss O'Rorke DSO who died of influenza 25th December 1918 and is buried in #Falmouth #Cornwall astreetnearyou.org/person/346948/…

Finally the rather poignant family portrait is the wife & 5 children of Lance Cpl Joseph Smith, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), killed in the trenches near Lesboeufs 25 December 1916 but never found. Commemorated on the Thiepval memorial astreetnearyou.org/person/813004/…