Old Salfordians Memorial
H V Taylor Harry Vivian Captain Manchester Regiment 17th Battalion died 22/3/1918 Comments MC
CWG Age 24 son of Henry and Elizabeth of "Netherly" Rivington Rd Pendleton
1.G.21 Savy British Cemetery
He was born in Salford resident 47 Seedley Park Rd in 1901 census
C Thompson Cyril 2nd Lieutenant Lancashire Fusiliers died 1/6/1918
CWG Age 28 son of Thomas and Sarah Thompson of Branwood House Clarendon Crescent Eccles
1.F.7 Martinsart British Cemetery
J Trenbath Jack 2nd Lieutenant East Lancashire Regiment died 8/9/1918
CWG Age 21 son of George and Edith Mary Trenbath of Whiteley View Glossop. Native of Manchester
111.C.5 Pont D'Achelles Military Cemetery
Born in Longsight resident Pendleton 1901 census
H Warburton can not link one
A J Welsh Alan James born Salford resident Broughton L/corporal Machine Gun Regiment 107332 formerly 166295 Lancashire Fusiliers died 25/4/1918
CWG Age 20 son of Mr W J C and Mrs Alice A Welsh of 39 Kipling St Higher Broughton .A clerk in Parrs and Westminster Bank Pendleton
111.F.7 Wulverghen Lindenhoek Rd Military Cemetery
H H Wilding Horace Holden 2nd Lietenant Kings Royal Rifle Corp died 13/9/1918
CWG Age 22 son of Matilda Wilding of 19 Kingswood Rd Prestwich and the late John Frederick Widing
1.9.15 Le Bucquiere Communal Cemetery Extension
Born Prestwich 1896
C Willett Joseph Cyril Temp 2nd Lietenant Machine Gun Corp died 15/5/1917
CWG Age 23 son of Joseph and Florence Beatrice Willett of Cambria House 246 Great Clowes St Higher Broughton
Probate Joseph Cyril Willett of 246 Great Clowes St Broughton 2nd Lieutenant in Machine Gun Corp died 15/5/1917 in France or Belgium while in actual military service Administration 9/10/1917 to Joseph Willett effects £154 10s 5d
A Winkup Arthur Driver RFA 1633 died 15/12/1918
CWG Age 20 son of Arthur and Betsy Winkup of Wardley Ty Croes Abergele . Native of Prestwich
1.C.1 Mons Bergen Cemetery
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Albert Wincop on Ancestry records but Winkup in 1901 census born Salford resident Lower Broughton as stated in records Private South Wales Borderers 5th Battalion 41654 died 29/4/1918
CWG not found
J A Wolfendale John Ashton enlisted Salford Private Lancashire Fusiliers 1/8th Battalion 2852 died 7/8/1915 Gallipoli
CWG Age 20 son of Rev T A Wolfendale MA and Elizabeth Wolfendale of 2 Grove Bank Duffield Rd Derby
Panel 58 to 72 or 218 to 219 Helles Memorial
G Wolfenden George born Swinton resident Worsley L/Corporal Manchester Regiment 2/6th Battalion 250769 died 26/11/1917
CWG Age 20 George Hubert son of Joseph and Alice Wolfenden of "Ashby" 56 Hazelhurst Rs Worsley
111.C.8 Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery
Resident Moorside Rd 1901 Father Joseph a Schoolmaster
T Wood Thomas born Salford Private Manchester Regiment 18th Battalion 10747 died 2/2/1916
CWG Age 22 Husband of Sarah Ann Wood of 13 Archer St Bradford Manchester
T Yates Thomas enlisted Salford Private Lancashire Fusiliers 1/7th Battalion 281494 died 6/4/1917
CWG V1.C.68 Bethune Town Cemetery
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Wendy
This is the wrong T Yates, I'm afraid. The man on the Old Salfordians' Plaque is the
Thomas Yates who has a personal memorial plaque in St. Luke's, Weaste, illustrated elsewhere on this website. He attended our School for its first two years, 1904 to 1906 and then joined Parr's Bank. In 1911 he emigrated to Regina, Saskatchewan (on the
Hesperian which would later be sunk by the same u-boat as the
Lusitania), and there he kept up his tennis and cricket in what was still a very Anglo community. He came back across the Atlantic with the CEF but got a "Blighty one" in France in May 1915. Recuperating at his parents' house on Liverpool Street, he used the time to further his accountancy studies. In 1917 this 6' 3" tall sportsman was commissioned in the 28th Battalion (Saskatchewans). He was part of the Canadian assault on Passchendaele village itself, on the 99th day of the 3rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele). He was consolidating his men's position in the village when he was shot through the head by a sniper. 68 Saskatchewans were killed that day, along with many Winnipegs and Albertas.
Second Lieutenant
Jack Trenbath (above) is listed in the Roll of Honour of the University of Manchester, published as a book in 1922. It is in two sections, those who served and died and those who served and survived. Jack was mistakenly included in the latter section, those who served and survived, so he is not on the bronze memorial plaque on the outside wall of the John Owen Building, in the Old Quad.
However, three Old Salfordians who
are on that University of Manchester memorial are Signalman
Harold John Warburton (above), who went down with the
Laurentic on 25th January 1917, Second Lieutenant
John Frederick Motler and Second Lieutenant
Asa Frederick Sheppard who suffered fatal injuries when his plane crash-landed. The Carlscam website has full details of the U of M plaque and the companion WW2 plaque on the same wall.
Someone on the WW2 memorial at Manchester University worthy of a mention on the SWARM website is Captain Norman Altham of the RA Medical Corps. He was a son of Josiah Goodacre Altham, who taught many of the boys named on the Old Salfordians’ Plaque. Mr. Altham joined the School staff in 1907 and became the Headmaster in 1927, and it was on his initiative that the name of the School was changed to Salford Grammar School in 1932. He retired in December 1941, a day or two before his son Norman died in a PoW camp in Poland.
For a number of reasons I'm quite sure it is Driver
Arthur Winkup (above) who is remembered on our Plaque.
For the record,
John Ashton Wolfendale (above) was always known as Jack.
As for the T Wood suggested above, I don't think there is anything to make one think he might have attended our School, and he simply doesn’t feel right. For one thing, there are 74 men on the Plaque, only 4 of the 64 so far identified with confidence were married, and all four of them were a good bit older than 22. So, all things being equal, the chances of our T Wood being a married man like the one suggested above are 15 to one against.
In those days bout half the boys at our School paid fees, which were not abolished until April 1945. Lots of the boys came from places like Monton and Pendlebury (though that changed when Eccles Grammar School opened in 1911). Given all that, I think there is a strong candidate in the form of Bombardier
Thomas Wood, who was 24 and unmarried when he was killed on 15th June 1917 serving with the Royal Field Artillery. His father in the 1911 census was a butcher working on his own account, and they lived at 321, Worsley Road, Winton, Patricroft. There were just two children, and in peacetime Thomas had been a clerk with the L&NWR. It seems likely he is the man on the memorial at St. Mark’s Church, Worsley Brow, and the St. Mary Magdalene’s War Cross, both of which happen to bear the name of Old Salfordian
Harold Pickering. There was only about 9 months between them and they probably knew each other, particularly if, as I strongly suspect, they were schoolmates. (There is a lot of clustering of our lads on other memorials – 10 on one, 8 on another, 6 on another, 5 on another, 4 on several, etc. Needless to say, it has only been possible to make a statement like that thanks to the work done by and for SWARM.)
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