Yesterday I came across three metal plaques, which contain the names of 324 servicemen of the Great War.
The location of the plaques is as yet unknown to me, and at present I have only the date they were photographed which was 1962.
A search of just three of the names has revealed two brothers from Harpurhey and another from Cheetham, which I guess might place the plaques from the north of the city.
The task will be to search a representative group to begin with to get a better idea of where they came from.
But as you do I choose two of the men at random.
The first was Plato Postlethwaite, who was born in 1898 served with Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire) Regiment and was killed in action on January 1st, 1918.
According to the records he served as Alan Ward, had been born in Manchester, and in 1911 was living with his parents and four siblings in four roomed house in Harpurhey.
The second soldier was Abel Pennington who in 1911 was living with his widowed mother and two brothers in Cheetham. He was from the Manchester Regiment and died a year earlier on June 6th, 1917.
In time I will go looking for more of those on the three plaques and try to track down where they might now be held.
Pictures; war memorial, 1962, 1962-3672.2, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass
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