Oldham Soldiers awarded the
Victoria Cross
'For Valour' |
'The Oldham Battalion
of Comrades'
24th Battalion
Manchester Regiment.
(scanned pages) |
Oldham Territorials
1/10th Battalion,
Manchester Regiment 'Oldham Terriers -
Their Part in the War'
by Sgt. Maurice Bradbury, M.M.
Transcriptions of a series of articles
published in the Oldham 'Standard'
in Spring 1919.
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Unit War Diaries
On-going Transcription Project -
The Unit War Diaries from the
Manchester Regiment :
24th Battalion (Comrades)
&
1/10th Battalion (Territorials)
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Servicemen we know
GALLERY -
many with links
to their own personal story.
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Oldham Men at
The Battle of 3rd Ypres -
Passchendaele
July - November 1917
Above (1916):
THE MENIN GATE OF YPRES
This gap in the old walls of Ypres is the entrance of the road from Menin, which runs for some 11 miles straight across the middle of the Salient by Hooge,
Gheluvelt and Gheluve, known throughout the war as the 'Menin Road'
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The Battle of Jutland
31st May - 1st June 1916
Transcripts; map; names of local casualties; local stories; list of ships and crew lost; chronology of Battle etc.
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July 1916 to November
1916
... The Battle of the Somme
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The Role of Women in WW1
(With images from the IWM Collections) |
The Home Front :
War 'Comforts'
& Fund Raising
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Conscientious Objection
after the
Military Service Act
of 1916 |
Campaigning
for Peace |
'THE GREAT WAR - HOW IT TOUCHED LIVES IN OLDHAM'
PART 1
The Narrative and Slides from the August 2014 Talk at Oldham-HRG
PART 2
The Narrative and Slides from the September 2014 Talk at Oldham-HRG
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Manchester Hill 1918
16th Manchesters
in the Battle of that name.
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Local CWGC War Graves
Memorials & Rolls of Honour |
'Mixed Bag'
a miscellaneous collection
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Letters and cards from
servicemen & women.
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THE 'BIGGER PICTURE'
Selection of images
from the Digital Archive of
The Library of Congress
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Random snippets of
information that just might help
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Links
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Newspaper Clippings
1914 1915 1916 1917
1918 AFTERWARDS
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More Reading
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