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

DIARIES & HISTORIES

24th Manchester Diary link

Oldham Battalion
of Comrades (Pals)
24th Battalion
Manchester Regiment.
Regimental War Diaries for
June to December 1916

 

link to 24th Manchester pages

''The Oldham Battalion
of Comrades
24th Battalion
Manchester Regiment.
Chapters 3 to 6 covering the
their months on the Somme in 1916

 

The 24th Manchester on the Somme 1916

OLDHAM 'PALS' WAR RECORD
(during their months on the Somme in 1916)
by
Sergeant Harry Bradley,
24th Manchester Regiment,
and published as a series of articles
in the 'Oldham Standard', in 1919.

 

Godric Kean

Godric Kean
of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic
Church, Oldham.
A Chaplain on the Somme

 

Somme project menu link
link to home page
WW1 menu page
WW1 links page