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
Memorial Autograph Book

St Paul's Methodist church WW1 Memorial Autograph Book - Private Joseph Eric Sellers, 376856

Private Joseph Eric Sellers, 376856
3/10th Manchester Regiment (CWGC website records him as being in the 1/9th Battalion of the Manchesters)
Attested November 1915
Mobilised February 1916
Attached to Royal Engineers
Killed in action 6th September 1917
Age 27

Son of Urban and Cecilia Sellers, of 16, Ashworth St., Shaw, Lancs.
On the 1911 census Joseph was living with his parents and two sisters on Milnrow Road, Shaw.

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