'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
31st MAY - 1st JUNE 1916
THE NAVAL SEA BATTLE
OF JUTLAND
Local Casualties
on HMS Indefatigable
Ordinary Seaman, Fred Read
199 London Road
He was 17 years of age.
Before the war he worked at the Moss Spinning Co,
and enlisted in May 1915.
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on HMS Indefatigable
Gunner, James Holt
15 Fir Street, Failsworth.
Enlisted when 17 years of age, and was 19 on the Friday before the battle.
Before joining the navy he was a piecer at the Ivy Mill, Failsworth.
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on HMS Indefatigable
Leading Stoker, Joseph Graves,
of 10 Wye Street, Oldham.
He was 24 years of age.
He joined the navy in 1911 and formerly
in the employ of J P Hall, electrical engineer, Werneth.
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on HMS Indefatigable
Ordinary Seaman,
Harry Simms Hodgkinson,
of Flag Cottage, Hey
He joined the navy soon after the outbreak of war,
and previously worked as a piecer at the
Oldham and Lees Spinning Company's Mill.
He was 18½ years of age.
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