'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
Taken from the talk
given at Oldham Historical Research Group on the 16th August, 1917
Memorial Plot in Duhallows Cemetery
Private Edward Garside Whitehead, 385, Grenadier Guards, Machine-Gun
Company
(note: some of details on burial return have been mis-transcribed or read)
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