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

1914 - 1918

CLEETHORPES
Memorial to the men of the 3rd Manchester Regiment
who died in a Zeppelin raid on 1st April 1916

Cleethorpes great war memorial

Floor memorial - Cleethorpes Memorial erected in 1918

IN MEMORIAM
OF
THE MEN OF THE
3RD BATTALION
MANCHESTER REGT
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR THEIR COUNTRY
ON THE MORNING OF
APRIL 1ST 1916.
A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT
FROM THE CLEETHORPES
BAPTIST CHURCH.
DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP
IN VICTORY
1 COR. V.54

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Information contributed by Dorothy Bintley
Photographs by David Harding
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