Whittington families » Martin SCANLON (± 1874-1915)

Personal data Martin SCANLON 


Household of Martin SCANLON

He is married to Clara SMITH (SCANLON).

They got married at Chorlton, Lancashire.

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Notes about Martin SCANLON

SCANLON MARTIN Private 2499. 14th Bn. Manchester Regiment. 8th May 1915. Age 41. Husband of Clara Scanlon of 74 Welcombe St., Hulm, Manchester.

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Historical events

Day of death May 8, 1915

  • The temperature on May 8, 1915 was between 8.3 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • January 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
    • February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
    • May 22 » Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
    • July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
    • September 25 » World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
    • September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.

Day of burial June 9, 1915

  • The temperature on June 9, 1915 was between 15.5 °C and 27.3 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • January 19 » German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
    • June 5 » Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
    • June 21 » The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
    • July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
    • September 25 » World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
    • October 14 » World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.


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