Showing posts with label The Manchester Regiment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Manchester Regiment. Show all posts
Friday, 6 August 2021

A personal way to remember the Great War ..... and the mystery of Harry Dale

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The Great War has long passed out of living memory. Receiving the message, 1915 The politicians who took Europe into that conflict and then...
Saturday, 21 November 2020

"Dear Miss J".............. a message from the 8th Manchester’s at Garstang Camp to the City Hotel on Cooper Street ...... June 1911

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Now there is a lot going on in this picture . Church parade with the 8th Manchester's circa 1911 We are at Garstang camp with the...
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Sunday, 8 November 2020

Remembering Private John Edmund Shepherd who died aged 19 at Gallipoli

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Private Shepherd This was John Edmund Shepherd who was born in 1896 in Manchester and lived in Moss Side. He had been a Territori...
Thursday, 13 August 2020

Lives revealed from the Great War ........... Cyril and Mabel Bowman of Atwood Road Didsbury

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The Victory Medal of Mr Bowman I am looking at the Victory Medal which was awarded to Cyril Hopwood Bowman, who enlisted on September 3...
Wednesday, 21 August 2019

Signaller Thomas Roberts of the 17th Manchester’s and a postcard from Heaton Mersey

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I never tire of those old picture postcards which ask “can you pick out our house?” Didsbury Road, 1915 I just think that in one sent...
Tuesday, 12 September 2017

The Manchester Pals .............. lives from the Great War revealed

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Men of the First City Battalion, the 176h Manchester's in Heaton Park, 1914 I have wondered about the fate of these eight men sitti...
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Sunday, 30 July 2017

William Bates soldier of the Great War ............. died on the Western Front aged 17

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The popular image of the young men who lied about their age and went off to fight in the Great War is a powerful one, more so when they die...
Tuesday, 1 November 2016

Rediscovering one young man from the Great War

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I think this will be the last of the stories about the young officer who died in 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. Unknown young sol...
Monday, 24 October 2016

Discovering a lost soldier of the Great War .......... with a nod of thanks to facebook

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Now it is easy to deride social networks and write them off as the preserve of the trivial and the vain but that is to ignore their potenti...
Sunday, 23 October 2016

Who was this young man?

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I wonder who this young man was. This question has been preoccupying the thoughts of my friend Tricia from Bexley who sent me the pic...
Monday, 20 June 2016

Remembering them ...... 100 years after the Battle of the Somme part 2 Heaton Park, living history groups and a concert

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Now I like the way that seemingly unrelated bits of history come together. Cap badge of Manchester Regiment So here is a cap badge of...
Tuesday, 3 November 2015

One historic piece of sheet music and a special event tomorrow in Heaton Mersey

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Looking at the score for the First Manchester March is to be reminded of how I wish I could read music and play an instrument because I h...
Saturday, 20 December 2014

Snapshots of the Great War nu 3 ........... the Manchester Pals

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Now I don’t have a date for the picture but it’s of a young James Callaghan of the 8th Battalion of the Manchester Regiment. He was one...