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

CLEETHORPES
Memorial to the men of the 3rd Manchester Regiment
who died in a Zeppelin raid on 1st April 1916

Cleethorpes great war memorial

Right hand panel - Cleethorpes Memorial erected in 1918

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Information contributed by Dorothy Bintley
Photographs by David Harding

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