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  - Wilfred Raine & Gunner W. Mercer

Wilfred Raine
R.G.A.
Enlisted 30th October 1915
Demobilised 5th February 1919
&
Gunner Wallace Mercer
Enlisted 28th April 1915
Demobilised 3rd June 1919
note: brother of Harold and William Arthur Mercer.

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

The son of Arthur and Eliza Mercer,
271, Turf Lane, Royton. b
Brother of Harold Mercer, MM and William Arthur Mercer

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