Guards Division at
the Battle of Loos
Sept - Oct. !915

 

Guards Division at the
Battle of the Somme
1916
(2 maps)

Guards Division at the
Battle of Boesinghe
Pilckem Ridge31st July 1917
3rd Ypres - Passchendaele

 

Ypres Salient in 1917

 

The Crossing of the Broembeek
Guards Division, Oct. 1917

 

Front Line at Ypres - July 30th 1917

Ypres - The Changing Front Line between 31st July and 10th November 1917

 

Approach to Passchendaele,
9th and 12th October 1917

Edward Garside Whitehead
with his parents, James Edward
Whitehead and Martha (nee Garside)

Edward Garside Whitehead
Medal Rolls Index Card

His 'Formal Will' - written at the
time of embarkaction for France,
23rd September 1915

 

Edward Garside Whitehead
Guardsman 21718, 4th Battalion
Grenadier Guards

Edward Garside Whitehead - Grenadier Guards in dress uniform
on left

Edward Garside Whitehead - Grenadier Guards - Machine-Gun Company

The Grenadier Guards Inspection &
marching past their Colonel,
Field-Marshal, H.R.H.
The Duke of Connaught, K.G.,
November 1st, 1916
(2 photos)

 

The Menin road & Gate of Ypres

Edward's sistar, Martha,
on a visit to his memorial
at Duhallows Cemetery.

 

Memorial Plot in Duhallows Cemetery
Private Edward Garside Whitehead,
385, Machine-Gun Company

The Menin Gate Memorial -
looking back into the Town of Ypres

Remembered on Clayton War
Memorial and on his Parents'
headstone in St. Cross Churchyard

Edward Garside Whitehead - Grenadier Guards
Remembered on the Menin Gate

Ypres - The Church Rebuilt

Ypres -
Memorial Window in the Church,
depicting St. George,

Ypres -
Memorial Window, in the Church,
in memory of the Oldham men
who died at Ypres.