27 September 1918 Lance Corporal Thomas Hillier (306504) 1/8 Bn Lancashire Fusiliers was killed in action and buried in Ribecourt Road Cemetery.

Thomas is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

27 September 1918 Private Joseph Davenport (105425) 13 Bn The King's (Liverpool Regiment) was killed in action and has no known grave and is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial

Joseph is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

27 September 1918 Private Robert Peters (29529) 8 Bn King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) was killed in action and was buried in Lowrie Cemetery.

Robert is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

27 September 1917 Rifleman Herbert Garnett (A/202232) King's Royal Rifles Corp was killed in action and has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

Herbert is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

27 September 1918 Private Joseph Crossley (43710) 1 Bedfordshire Regiment was killed in action and has no known grave but is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial

Joseph is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

27 September 1918 Private James C Lee (251564) 1/7 Bn Manchester Regiment was killed in action and was buried in Ribecourt Road Cemetery.

James is remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #History

27 September 1917 Private John W Oldham (11870) 1/4 Bn King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) died of wounds and was buried in Mendinghem Military Cemetery

John is remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

27 September 1918 Private Arthur Lomax (49115) 1 Bn The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment died and was buried in St Sever Cemetery

Arthur is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

27 September 1917 Private Albert Cropper (265408) 1/6 Bn Cheshire Regiment died while a POW and was buried in Cologne Southern Cemetery. Albert was 21.

Albert is also remembered on the Bredbury & Romiley War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

27 September 1918 Private Arthur McGough (58356) 2/4 Bn York & Lancaster Regiment was killed in action and buried in Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery

Arthur is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

"He was stern but you could see that he genuinely cared”

#OTD in 1918, Captain Truman was in command of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery of the US Army. It was first day of the Meuse–Argonne Offensive, which brought an end to #WW1 on November 11.

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A question in two parts:
You favourite book so far this year?
And the one you are most looking forward to on your TBR?

#WW1 #WarHistory #books #TBR #booksky

26 September 1918: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive began. #History #WW1

The Meuse-Argonne Offensive would be the largest and bloodiest operation of World War I for the American Expeditionary Force (AEF), and would continue until the end of the war.

26 September 1914

The first elements of the Indian Expeditionary Force disembarked at Marseilles. The BEF had been virtually decimated by weeks of non-stop fighting, retreating, and counter-attacking. The Indian Army provided an absolute lifeline to the British army

#WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

26 September 1916

Edward Thomas writes ‘The Trumpet’

#WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

26 September 1916

Edmund Blunden 'we made ostentatious “smoke attacks,” which gave me a change of employment. These attacks deluded some German machine gunners, and drew some shellfire, perhaps intended rather as a snub to impudence than as a genuine display of anxiety’

#WW1 #History

26 September 1916

Arthur Graeme West writes ‘Moved at 8.30 towards the Front. Everybody rather fed up and tired. Reached a shell-torn ridge just near G….. about noon… then moved up to occupy trenches near M….. A quiet enough night, but not much sleep.’

#WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

6 September 1915

Robert Nichols ‘I’m in hospital for a few days–after a rather thick time. They found me done up utterly in a road after looking for a place and I still feel rather done in–having been knocked down twice, once by the blast of a gun and once by a spent bullet'

#WW1 #History

April, the last full fixture of the spring:
“Feet, Scottish, feet!” – they rucked the fear of God
Into Blackheath…

—“London Scottish”, by Mick Imlah (1956–2009) – born #OTD, 26 September
from THE LOST LEADER (Faber, 2008)
#poem #poetry #rugby #WW1
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