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 William S. Shimmels & Private Wm. Hopkinson

Private William S. Shimmels
11th Battalion King's Own Royal Lancasters
Mobilised 21st July 1916
Wounded June 1917
Discharged 28th April 1918
&
Private Wm. Hopkinson
The King's Own (R.L.) Regiment
Attested December 1915; mobilised June 1916.
Wounded December 1916 - hospitalised in Dublin until March 1917.
2nd April 1917, on board H.M.T. 'Cameronia' en route for Mesopotamia, ship torpedoed and sank.
William survived and arrived in Baghdad 28th August 1917.
Demobilised 13th April 1919

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