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Remembering Nursing Sister Marion Bell, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, died in a car accident on the 26th September 1940 aged 28. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #WW2 @TheRCAMuseum @HerosofCanada @CanWarMuseum #nurses
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Remembering Nurse Dorothy Twist Canadian Military Voluntary Aid Detachment died from pneumonia following influenza on 26th Sept 1918 aged 33. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… Photo © Cowichan Valley Archives #WW1 @TheRCAMuseum @HerosofCanada @CanWarMuseum #nurses
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Remembering Staff Nurse I. Mary (known as Josephine) Kearney, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, died from illness on the 26th September 1916. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #WW1 #nurses
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Remembering Nursing Sister Bessie Sutherland, Scottish Women’s Hospital, died of enteric fever on the 26th September 1915 aged 42. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #WW1 #nurses
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Remembering Corporal Matthew Thomas, Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, killed when his vehicle was struck by an IED on the 25th September 2010 aged 25, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Matthew was from Penllergaer, Swansea, Wales. #Afghanistan @Official_REME
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Remembering Civilian Nurse Coral Robinson, British Red Cross, died as a result of enemy action on the 25th September 1940 aged 30. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #WW2 #nurses
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Lost his life this day 25th. Sept. 1940.
Sgt. Kenneth Christopher Holland.
Australian One of THE FEW.
bbm.org.uk/airmen/HollandKC.…
Attacking an He111, he set it on fire. He went in for a closer look but was shot in the head by a gunner still in the stricken aircraft.
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Lost his life this day 25th. Sept. 1940.
Sgt. William Gerald Silver….of Hampshire.
One of THE FEW.
bbm.org.uk/airmen/Silver.htm
He failed to return from a combat over the Portsmouth area.Shot down in his Spitfire by enemy fighters.
Age 27.
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Remembering Matron Jessie Jaggard, Canadian Army Medical Corps, died from illness on the 25thSeptember 1915 aged 44. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #nurses
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Remembering Captain Carl Manley, Royal Marines (SBS), died of natural causes at Bagram Air Force Base, Afghanistan on 24th September 2012 aged 41. Carl was married with 3 children. #Afghanistan #RoyalMarines
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Lost his life this day 24th. Sept. 1940.
PO. Witold Jozef Glowacki. VM.
Polish One of THE FEW.
bbm.org.uk/airmen/GlowackiWJ…
Chasing a Do17 to the French coast, he was attacked by three Me109s and shot down in his Hurricane.
Killed age 26.
He was awarded the VM.
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Lost his life this day 24th. Sept. 1940.
PO. John Samuel Bryson.
Canadian One of THE FEW.
bbm.org.uk/airmen/Bryson.htm
His Spitfire was shot down by Me109s and he was killed.
Age 27.
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Remembering Nursing Sister Jean Anderson, Territorial Force Nursing Service, died on the 24th September 1946. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #WW2 #nurses
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Lost his life this day 23rd. Sept. 1940.
PO. Walter Beaumont…of Dewsbury, Yorkshire.. (Right.)
One of THE FEW.
bbm.org.uk/airmen/BeaumontW.…
He failed to return from an operational sortie.
His Spitfire is believed to have crashed into the Channel, cause unknown.
Age 26.
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The repatriation ceremony from Afghanistan of Royal Marine Jonathan 'Dutchy' Holland in March 2007.
The ceremony took place at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire.
Jonathan was killed in action whilst serving with Whiskey Company, 45 Cdo RM.
Gone but not forgotten Royal.
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Lost his life this day 23rd. Sept. 1940.
Sgt. David Hart Ayers…from Wroxall, Isle of Wight.
One of THE FEW.
bbm.org.uk/airmen/Ayers.htm
While engaging a Do17 in his Spitfire, he baled out into the sea but was possibly hit by return fire.
Age 26.
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Remembering Nurse Wilhelmina Baily, 38th Stationary Hospital Voluntary Aid Detachment, died on the 23rd September 1918. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #WW1 #nurses
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PO. William Gordon Dickie…of Dundee.
One of THE FEW.
bbm.org.uk/airmen/Dickie.htm
Directed to Portland when 50-200 Enemy aircraft were sighted…a general dogfight broke out but Dickie failed to return.
Age 24.
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Remembering Sergeant Jonathan Kups, Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, died in Camp Bastion, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on the 21st September 2012 aged 38. Jonathan was from Nuneaton. #Afghanistan
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