Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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On 8th April 1884 John Hogan was born in Royton, Lancashire.
The London Gazette 29015. 22nd December 1914. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the grant of the Victoria Cross to Second Lieutenant James Leach, and to No. 9016 Serjeant John Hogan (age 30), 2nd Battalion, The Manchester Regiment, for their conspicuous bravery, specified below: —
For conspicuous bravery near Festubert on 29th October, when, after their trench had been taken by the Germans, and after two attempts at recapture had failed, they voluntarily decided on the afternoon of the same day to recover the trench themselves, and, working from traverse to traverse at close quarters with great bravery, they gradually succeeded in regaining possession, killing eight of the enemy, wounding two, and making sixteen prisoners.
On 6th or 7th October 1943 John Hogan (age 59) died.
In 2003. a Blue Plaque was unveiled to three 'valiant men of the Borough of Oldham' who received the Victoria Cross: John Hogan, Walter Mills and Thomas Steele.
Oldham Church War Memorial including plaques to three recipients of the Victoria Cross: John Hogan, Walter Mills and Thomas Steele.
