'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
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The 'Index of Names on the Site' page is updated, as a matter of course, at the same time as other additions. |
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Servicemen we
know * Two brothers, Robert & Harry Fitton They died within 3 weeks of each other in September/October 1918 |
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The Military Service Act & Conscientious Objection in WW1 * Local COs Names and links - updated with more names * Conscientious Objectors And Perpetual Hard Labour by G. Bernard Shaw, The Manchester Guardian, Aug 14th, 1918 * Construction of Llyn y Fan Fach Reservoir Completed by CO labour. Newspaper Clippings & Reports * A Different Casualty of War - A soldier's suicide |
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The Military Service Act & Conscientious Objection in WW1 * Local COs Names and links - updated with more names |
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Members' Page * Edward Garside Whitehead Killed in Action 31st July 1917 . Enlisted in the Grenadier Guards - His story told mainly in transcripts from the book 'The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914-1918' by Sir Frederick Ponsonby, and extracts from the War Diaries. |
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The Military Service Act & Conscientious Objection in WW1 * Local COs Names and links - updated with more names. |
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The Battle of 3rd Ypres - Passchendaele * Illustrated narrative taken from the talk at the Local Studies & Archives in August 2017 * Gallery of IWM Photos of 3rd Ypres * Names of local men, with regiments etc., who fell during the battle (over 400 names) * Resources and links Also on the Members Menu Page HERE |
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Letters & Cards from Servicemen & Women: * More additions Conscientious Objectors - more information being added to the names. Servicemen we know * Ben Howarth |
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The Military Service Act & Conscientious Objection in WW1 New on-going project. * Arthur Winterbottom A local CO - some of his story * Local COs Names and links of over 110 local COs with information and links * Glossary of useful terms and miscellaneuous facts * News Reports, Tribunals and Other Occurences * External LINKS page |
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Campaigning for Peace in WW1 * The Women's Peace Crusade Project updated with : * Further update to the Gallery page * Contents list for the publication and links to some transcribed chapters * Links to Facebook and Twitter pages for the Peace Crusade Project. |
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Campaigning for Peace in WW1 * 'The Women's Peace Crusade, 1917-1918 : Crusading Women in Manchester & East Lancashire' introduction to the Project and useful links to other websites. * The Women's Peace Crusade Project * Gallery of photos from the book and film launch in Manchester Central Library |
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Campaigning for Peace in WW1 * The Peace Crusade in Oldham in 1917 that ended in a riot, with basic location map. * The newspaper reports and letters, |
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Unit
War Diaries for the 24th Manchester Regt. (Oldham Comrades) * Unit Diaries for August 1916. * Unit Diaries for September 1916 * Earlier missing pages from Unit Diaries for October 1916. Duplicates also added to : The Battle of the Somme 1916 - a Special Project * 24th Unit War Diaries - August 1916, September 1916, missing pages October 1916 |
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The Battle of Jutland * Gallery of pictures of ships and battle * Transcripts of accounts published 1921 of 'Windy Corner' and the loss of of HMS 'Defence' and of HMS 'Warrior' |
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Unit
War Diaries for the 24th Manchester Regt. (Oldham Comrades) * Unit Diaries for October and November 1917 added. |
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The Battle of the Somme
1916 - a Special Project * 24th Unit War Diaries - June 1916 added - preparations for the Somme offensive * Battle of Jutland - Photos of seamen lost added - linked by name from 'Casualties' page |
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The Battle of Jutland - new pages to commemorate centernary. Includes Transcripts; map; names of local casualties; local stories; list of ships and crews lost; chronology of Battle etc. |
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The Battle of the Somme
1916 - a Special Project * More soldiers names * A Chaplain's letter from the Somme * Boundary Park Military Hospital |
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The Battle of the Somme
1916 - a Special Project, together with the Local Studies and
Archives, dedicated to the Battle of the Somme, |
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Home Front - Menu
Page ... edited. * First Report & Accounts of Failsworth Subdivision of the British Red Cross Comforts Section' added. * President's final & personal report in 1918 for Failsworth Wesleyan War Comforts Society |
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WW1 Links * 1915 Merchant Navy Crew Lists (from external site - The National Archives) Servicemen we know * Private William Knight 1/10th Manchester Battalion (Oldham Territorials) |
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Links Page * British First World War Trench Maps, 1915-1918 Maps of the Western Front in the Great War depicting British and German trenches. Viewable on-line 'Oldham Terriers' - Their part in the War by Sgt. Maurice Bradbury, M.M., * The final instalment, Part 12, added : The 1/10th in France in Autumn 1918. 'Mixed Bag' * Map of British Battles on the Western Front from 8th Aug. to 11th Nov. 1918 * The Ambulance Train for the Continent - transcript of 16 page booklet of info. and pictures |
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'Oldham
Terriers' - Their part in the War by Sgt. Maurice Bradbury,
M.M., 1/10th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Transcriptions of a series of articles published in the 'Oldham Standard' in Spring 1919. |
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Memorials Page
: * St. Paul's Methodist Church, Shaw - Memorial Tablet & Autograph Book with 115 names & details |
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Links Page Updated |
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Mixed Bag - menu
page * Gallery of Photos relating to Oldham in Great War (slides taken from the 2 talks on the 'Great War |
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Mixed Bag - menu
page (also in Members' Pages Gallery) 'The Great War - How it Touched Lives in Oldham' (Part2) Narrative and Slides from the September 2014 Talk at Oldham-HRG |
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Mixed Bag - menu
page (also in Members' Pages Gallery) 'The Great War - How it Touched Lives in Oldham' (Part1) Narrative and Slides from the August 2014 Talk at Oldham-HRG |
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Mixed Bag - menu
page The Active Serviceman's Testament - given to all servicemen as part of essential kit |
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Servicemen we
know * Josiah Smithies' lost Memorial Plaque finds its way home after being rescued from a scrapyard 35 years ago. * Alfred Hitchen * James Barlow * Frank Trickett |
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Servicemen we
know - additions : * William Bowler * G.E.J. Marriott Memorials Page : Opening of the Higher Failsworth Memorial Park - Programme Memorials Page : Failsworth Remembrance Day Service and Ceremony of Handing over Memorial Volume, 1935 - Programme Mixed Bag - Menu Page for: The Ambulance Train Home Front - Menu Page for : Letter from Red Cross 'Wounded and Missing' Dept. Ref. Private Albert Barlow, 1st Manchesters |
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Home Front - Menu
Page for : * 'The Failsworth and Woodhouses War Comforts Society' - Reports from January 1915 to December 1920. * 'The Failsworth and Woodhouses War Comforts Society' - Fund Raising Events * Red Cross Certificate for 'Honorary services' Mixed Bag - Menu Page for: * 'Just for a Scrap of Paper' Recruitment Leaflet no. 10 * 1915 National Registration Card |
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Do
you Know? Do we need to know? Do we want to Know? - more info
added, including 1914 maps A collection of random snippets of information that just might help - more info added Newspaper Clippings more clippings added |
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Servicemen we
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additions: Barrett, Smithies, Mason, Thompson Do
you know? Do We Want to Know? Do We Need to Know? |
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Home Front
'The Failsworth and Woodhouses War Comforts Society' Annual Report for 1st October 1915 to 30th September 1916 Failsworth
Wesleyan Group of 'The Failsworth and Woodhouses
War Comforts Society' |
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Newspaper Clippings
Link now active Questions
& Answers page Servicemen we know
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Servicemen we
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More Reading
'Printed Material Archived On-line' - Link to the IWM on-line archived collection of WW1 photographs & another book title. Links |
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Aftermath
New category started ......... the years following WW1 Lettercards &
Cards from Servicemen & Women |
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Cemeteries: list
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Names of servicemen buried in local cemeteries in CWGC maintained graves, with links to their CWGC page Servicemen we know - additions |
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Index of names on the
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Memorials : St Thomas, Werneth - names added War Graves in Oldham area cemeteries maintained by CWGC (in progress) |
2013-11-04
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Servicemen we
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Oldham's Three
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'World War
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