* Regimental War Diaries from The National Archives
* CommonwEalth War Graves Commission - searches for men killed
* Podcasts and blogs from the IWM and National Archives WW1 pages
* Imperial War Museum - photographs
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* Oldham Local Studies & Archives
* Innumerable web searches, with related terms, taking me to websites that filled the gaps
* WW1 Links page on this website for other useful websites
* The Oldham Battalion of Comrades
(24th Battalion Manchester
Rgt.)
Book of Honour'
Pub. 1920, Read it HERE
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* The 'More Reading' Page on this website
* 'The Recollections of three
Manchesters in the Great War'
Ed. by
Sue Richardson
2nd Ed. Pub. Neil Richardson, 2006
Isbn: 978 1 85216 165 1
* 'Amateur Soldiers - A History of Oldham's Volunteers & Territorials, 1859 to 1938'
by K.W.Mitchinson
Pub.
1999, Jade
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'Ypres in Ruins, 1919'
A collection of postcard photographs by Antony d'Ypres
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INTERNET ARCHIVE:
BOOKS &
PRINTED MATERIAL
with reference to Ypres
To download freely from the Internet Archive, as .pdf files, with the text links or search with related terms HERE
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'From Bapaume to Passchendaele
- 1917'
by Philip Gibbs
Download HERE
Updated & Re-published
as ' The Struggle in Flanders'
Download HERE
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' The Grenadier Guards in the
Great War of 1914 - 1918'
by Sir Frederick Ponsonby
Download Vol 1 HERE
Download Vol 2 HERE
Download Vol 3 HERE
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Michelin
Illustrated Guides to the Battlefields -
'YPRES & the Battles of Ypres'
Download HERE
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' Ypres, The Holy Ground of British Arms',
by Lieut-Col. Beckles Willson
Download HERE
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'The War Illustrated - The story of the Great European War told by camera, pen and pencil'.
Download:
Vol. 8 ' Ending the First Three Years'
HERE
Vol 9 ' The Fourth Year 1917-1918'
HERE
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' Ypres to Verdun'
by Sir Alexander B.W. Kennedy
Download HERE
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