1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima) 1950 Korean War begins 1964 - 1973 Vietnam War 1969 Armstrong first person on moon 1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl | 1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight 1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage 1914 - 1918 World War I 1922 USSR formed by Soviet states 1939 - 1945 World War II | 1854 Crimean War with Russia 1869 Opening of Suez Canal 1871 Franco - Prussian War 1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy 1899 Boer War begins |
Bernard VAUX b.1919 Leeds, Yorks d.1997 Diss, Norfolk | ||||||||
Brian Michael VAUX b. Private d. | ||||||||
Pauline Elizabeth VAUX b. Private d. | William Henry CROSSLAND b.1859 Salford, Lancs d.1898 Falmouth, Cornwall. | |||||||
Tom Arthur CROSSLAND b.1893 Higher Broughton, Lancs d.1974 Sheffield, Yorks | Clara HART b.1862 Manchester, Lancs d.1897 Salford, Lancs | |||||||
Joyce Hart CROSSLAND b. Private d. | ||||||||
Annie Sykes TAYLOR b.1897 Golcar, Yorks d.1973 Chesterfield, Derbys | ||||||||