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

SOLDIERS IN OTHER REGIMENTS

Corporal Thomas Meyers, 18911

William Alfred Aldred

Corporal Thomas Meyers, 18911
2nd Battalion. Border Regiment

Newspaper obituary:

"Notification has been received that Corporal Thomas Meyers, Border Regiment, of 48 Street Street, Hollinwood, was killed in action in France on July 1st. He enlisted on January 2nd 1915, and before he enlisted he lived at Hindley, working as a collier for Messrs Crompton and Shawcross. He was 31 years of age and leaves a widow and two children"

Medal card
Medal Index Card

He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial

CWGC

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