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Post by shred on Jun 22, 2014 18:01:00 GMT
Private Gerald Gould, Manchester Regiment. Swinton Hall Road.  |
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Post by shred on Jun 24, 2014 20:10:47 GMT
Private John Hindley, Lancashire Fusiliers. Battery Street, Clifton.  |
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Post by shred on Jun 24, 2014 20:47:50 GMT
Private Harry Sharples, Lancashire Fusiliers. Grosvenor Street, Pendlebury.  |
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Post by shred on Jun 25, 2014 19:45:08 GMT
Private L A Barnes, Ellesmere Street, Swinton.  |
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Post by shred on Jun 26, 2014 19:57:22 GMT
Private Tom Hallsworth, Lancashire Fusiliers. Son of the Mayor and Mayoress of Eccles.  |
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Post by shred on Jun 29, 2014 14:50:24 GMT
Major Joseph Nall, Royal Field Artillery. Worsley.  |
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Post by shred on Jun 29, 2014 14:57:40 GMT
Private J H Ogden, Dublin Fusiliers. Ogden Street, Swinton. Private Edward Gannon, Lancashire Fusiliers. Engine Brow, Pendlebury. Sergeant Frank Lee, King's Liverpool Regiment. Stand View, Clifton.  |
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Post by shred on Jul 5, 2014 10:08:55 GMT
Second Lieutenant Terence S O'grady, Manchester Regiment. Swinton.  |
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Post by shred on Jul 13, 2014 18:40:05 GMT
Second-Lieutenant R A Wardle, Northumberland Fusiliers. Mabel Avenue, Worsley. Private Edward Blears, South Wales Borderers. Cemetery Road, Swinton.  |
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Post by shred on Aug 19, 2014 18:45:13 GMT
Private Clifford Spencer, Lancashire Fusiliers. Regent Street, Eccles.  |
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Post by shred on Sept 7, 2014 17:45:36 GMT
Rifleman Alfred Taylor, King's Royal Rifles. Moss Lane, Cadishead. Private Arthur Ferguson, Manchester Regiment. Ashfield Grove, Irlam. Private Tom Mears, East Lancashire Regiment. Whitfield St, Cadishead.  |
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Post by shred on Sept 14, 2014 18:54:08 GMT
Private James Grice, Seaforth Highlanders. Brackley St, Swinton.  |
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Post by shred on May 26, 2015 20:03:25 GMT
Manchester Evening News -16/09/1914
Broughton Man's Ordeal
At the Battle of Cambrai.
The terrible ordeal experienced by the 1st Battalion King's Own Lancaster Regiment at Cambrai is told by Private W Barnes, who has returned to England. Barnes, who lives in Lower Broughton, received a bullet wound in the thigh, and was struck in the back by the fragments of a shell.
The regiment marched throughout the night of August 25, and at daybreak on the following morning a halt was called with instructions, "What you have to eat, eat it". During the meal the men were surprised by the enemy, and fought for four hours on ground absolutely devoid of cover of any description. Colonel Dykes was one of the first to fall, and Lieutenant Steele Perkins, who lay next to Barnes, was killed by a bullet wound in the head.
When further resistance was out of the question Barnes and a dozen comrades "made for it", but only three of the party reached a village close by and made their way to a church which was being used as a hospital. The church was fired on, and Barnes scrambled six miles before any assistance was rendered him. Here he met an Army Service Corps wagon and was conveyed to St Quentin. The German advance made it impossible to stay long, however, and they had to move first to Amiens, then to Rouen, finally to Harve where after a day's rest they embarked for England.
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Post by shred on May 31, 2015 10:36:17 GMT
Captain Herbert Bescoby, King's Liverpool Regiment.  |
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Post by shred on Jun 7, 2015 9:49:56 GMT
Harry George Ridgard (10704), 18th Manchester Regiment A clerk aged 20 years attested 4th September 1914. Home 04/09/14 to 07/11/15 France 08/11/15 to 17/02/16 Home 18/02/16  |
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