
      '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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