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

St. Paul's Methodist Church, Shaw

St Paul's Methodist church WW1 -Memorial Tablet removed from Grains Road Methodist Church 1964

Memorial Tablet removed from Grains Road Methodist Church 1964

"In Loving Memory of
Pte. EDWARD RAINE,
Who fell at Feuchy Wood, France,
May 25th 1917
In the 21st Year of his age.
Greater Love hath no man than this,
That he lay down his life for his friends."

CWGC

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Contributed by : Gillian Ashworth for St. Paul's Methodist Church, Shaw
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