13th December
Chris didn’t make a diary entry today. You can catch-up on his previous posts by using the navigation bar below. If you’ve been inspired or moved by the contents of Chris’ diary and would like to donate to a worthy cause, you can do below.
Saddam Hussein captured.
Suicide attack on Indian parliament.
Texas 7 prison break.
Hundreds of youths are on the streets of Brixton, in south London attacking police, ransacking shops and burning cars after the death of a black man in police custody.
North and South Korea signed a treaty of reconciliation and nonaggression which also formally ended the Korean War, although actual fighting had ceased in 1953.
Military rulers in Poland have declared a state of emergency after imposing martial law and placing leaders of the Solidarity trade union under arrest.
More than 300 British victims of the Thalidomide drug are being offered a compensation deal said to be worth £11.85m.
The search for a small bushy-tailed monkey fired into space in the nose cone of a Jupiter missile is called off.
New Zealand was discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman of the Dutch East India Company.
The beginning of one of the worst atrocities of World War II as the Chinese city of Nanking (Nanjing) was captured by the Japanese.
Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia repulses a series of attacks by General Ambrose Burnside’s Army of the Potomac at Fredericksburg, Virginia.
English seaman Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, with five ships and 164 men on a mission to raid Spanish holdings on the Pacific coast of the New World and explore the Pacific Ocean.
This is the real diary of a soldier who fought on the frontline in Afghanistan. In his own words, Pte.C.Burtenshaw 3011 6964 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, writes a brutally honest account of his experiences, not just as his therapy, but for his children.
The Diary Of My Afghanistan Tour 2010/2011, portrays the human element of the Afghanistan conflict to help those back home understand, that ‘as much as we love of our jobs and being out here, we are all of us, still human.’
It is a person. It is inspired by Conrad Lewis. Who became the 353rd soldier in the theatre of Afghanistan to give up everything for what he believed in.
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The 353 Trust supports injured soldiers, the families of the bereaved, and other military charities, with our combined efforts and in Conrad's memory. Funds raised will be shared amongst other military charities including;
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