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

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION IN WW1

Willoughby Perrin

From Nth. Cheshire Memorial Transcriptions on Find My Past
This gravestone is in the graveyard of Holy Trinity, C of E Church,
in the Parish pf Rostherne-with-Bollington.
Grave number 102.

The Inscription Reads:
In Loving Memory of
My Dear Husband
THOMAS PERRIN
Born April 14th 1843
Died June 25th 1918
Also the children of the Above:
CHARLIE, Born March 19th 1891, Died March 15th, 1893.
ESSIE, Born June 20th 1895, Died Dec. 16th 1899.
ERNEST, Born June 20th 1897, Died Dec 18th 1899.
He Holds Them In His Arms .
Also, WILLOUGHBY, son of the above
Born July 3rd, 1893, Killed in Action at Ypres, August 10th 1917,
Of the 13th chehsires.
To Those who knew and loved him
Best, Sweet Memories live.

Contributed by Dorothy Bintley

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