'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
15 men in the 2nd/10th Battalion, The Manchesters, would be awarded the Military Medal,
and 4 were awarded the Military Cross for their bravery and tenacity,
including *Captain G. Fripp, the son of an Oldham solicitor
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