Oldham Historical Research Group

'THE GREAT WAR',     'THE WAR TO END WAR',     'WORLD WAR 1'
'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.'
                                                                                                  
from 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' by Wilfred Owen

THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
JULY TO NOVEMBER 1916

LETTERS

From 'Letters to a Soldier', 1915 to 1919 ...
Those of May to December 1916

Medal card

Medal Card

Herbert Cecil Shaw,
Private 20th Battalion Royal Fusiliers;
2nd Lieutenant South Lancashire Fusiliers

The Letters
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