Friday, 9 February 2018

Evening Express February 1940

February continued the same theme as previous months , documenting shipping losses , the return of local men from H.M.S. Exeter , and a report of the first loss in France of a St Helens man .
William .Richard Taylor Master S.S. Yewdale  k.i.a. 3/2/1940 he is buried at Anfield Cemetery  Liverpool










Private Joseph Patrick Howe 3651171 Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps attached to the South Lancashire Regiment  died of wounds 25/2/1940 he is buried at Escoublac la Baule War Cemetery  1. G .18.

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