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

The Battle of 3rd Ypres - Passchendaele

SOME RESOURCES

* Regimental War Diaries from The National Archives

* CommonwEalth War Graves Commission - searches for men killed

* Podcasts and blogs from the IWM and National Archives WW1 pages

* Imperial War Museum - photographs

* Oldham Local Studies & Archives

* Innumerable web searches, with related terms, taking me to websites that filled the gaps

* WW1 Links page on this website for other useful websites

* The Oldham Battalion of Comrades
(24th Battalion Manchester Rgt.)
Book of Honour'

Pub. 1920, Read it HERE

* The 'More Reading' Page on this website

* 'The Recollections of three
Manchesters in the Great War
'
Ed. by Sue Richardson
2nd Ed. Pub. Neil Richardson, 2006
Isbn: 978 1 85216 165 1

* 'Amateur Soldiers - A History of Oldham's Volunteers & Territorials, 1859 to 1938'
by K.W.Mitchinson
Pub. 1999, Jade

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'Ypres in Ruins, 1919'
A collection of postcard photographs by Antony d'Ypres
Download HERE

INTERNET ARCHIVE:

BOOKS &
PRINTED MATERIAL
with reference to Ypres

To download freely from the Internet Archive, as .pdf files, with the text links or search with related terms HERE


'From Bapaume to Passchendaele
-
1917'
by Philip Gibbs
Download HERE
Updated & Re-published
as 'The Struggle in Flanders'
Download HERE

 


'The Grenadier Guards in the
Great War of 1914 - 1918
'
by Sir Frederick Ponsonby
Download Vol 1 HERE
Download Vol 2 HERE
Download Vol 3 HERE

 


Michelin
Illustrated Guides to the Battlefields -
'YPRES & the Battles of Ypres
'
Download HERE

 


'Ypres, The Holy Ground of British Arms',
by Lieut-Col. Beckles Willson
Download HERE

 


'The War Illustrated - The story of the Great European War told by camera, pen and pencil'.
Download:
Vol. 8 'Ending the First Three Years'
HERE
Vol 9 'The Fourth Year 1917-1918'
HERE

 


'Ypres to Verdun'
by Sir Alexander B.W. Kennedy
Download HERE

 

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