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Remembering Lieutenant Maurice James Dease VC π¬π§
Machine Gun Officer, 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers.
Death: 23 August 1914, Died of wounds at Nimy near Mons, Western Front.
#Lestweforget #Britisharmy #Firstworldwar #d23aug #Britishhistory #Remembrance
#otd 23 August 1880 β William Thompson died (b. 1811)
A bare-knuckle boxer, he won the heavyweight championship of England from James Burke in 1839. He was inducted into The Ring magazine Hall of Fame in 1955.
#britishhistory #d23aug #heavyweightboxer
#otd 23 August 1944 β Freckleton Air Disaster: A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England, killing 61 people.
#lestweforget #britishhistory #d23aug #Freckleton
#otd 23 August 1921 β British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
#lestweforget #britishhistory #d23aug #airship #hull
#otd 23 August 1914 β World War I: The British Expeditionary Force & the French Fifth Army begin their Great Retreat before the German Army.
#Britishhistory #firstworldwar #westernfront #d23aug #BEF
#otd 23 August 1898 β The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
#britishhistory #d23aug #antarctic #london #southerncrossexpedition
#otd 23 August 1873 β Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
#britishhistory #albertbridge #london #d23aug #londonhistory
#otd 23 August 1839 β The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for the First Opium War with Qing China.
#Britishhistory #d23aug #hongkong #history
#otd 23 August 1775 β American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open & avowed rebellion.
#Britishhistory #ushistory #d23aug #GeorgeIII
#otd 23 August 1628 β George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, is assassinated by John Felton.
#history #dukeofbuckingham #d23aug #onthisdayinhistory
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