|
|
|
7th Battalion, Manchester Regiment
| Want to know more about 7th Battalion, Manchester Regiment? There are:5286 items tagged 7th Battalion, Manchester Regiment available in our Library
These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War.
|
|
|
|
The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.
- 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time.
|
Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the Great War? Our
Library contains many many diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text.
|
Looking for help with Family History Research?
Please see Family History FAQ's
Please note: We are unable to provide individual research.
|
|
Can you help?
The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors.
If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web.
If you enjoy this site
please consider making a donation.
Announcements
- 19th Nov 2024
Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than
264989 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit.
Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted
photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted.
|
World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery
Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a
Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.
|
|
|
Pte. James Edward Green 1st/7th Btn. Manchester Regiment (d.2nd May 1918) James Green was killed in action on the 2nd of May 1918, aged 35 and is buried in the Couin New British Cemetery, France.
He was the son of John and Mary Ann Green, of 23, Hollingreave Rd., Burnley; husband of Ada Green, of 56, Dall St., Burnley Wood, Burnley
|
Pte. Albert Parsonage 27th Btn. Manchester Regiment My great-grandfather Albert Parsonage served in the 27th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. In 1916, Albert was in G Company stayed in No. 3 tent. He was part of the British Expeditionary Forces and served in France where he was taken as a POW in March 1918. At that time he was serving with 1/7th Manchester Regiment. He was a POW until January 1919 when he arrived back in London and was transferred to Woodcote Park Military Convalescent Hospital.
|
Pte. Edwin Potts 22nd Battalion Manchester Regiment My Great Grandfather, Edwin Potts, was married to Mary Alice Hopkinson. The following story is from memories written down by my Great Aunt Ethel Delany, one of Edwin's 7 children. There is nothing about his time in the army, but probably like many returned servicemen, he didn't talk about them, especially to the younger children.
Edwin was a cabinet maker & was in partnership with his brother in a small factory. They sold furniture from their shop, where they also sold crockery, gramophones, records, hardware etc.
Unfortunately one year after returning from the War, Edwin accidentally fell off a tram and died a week later. He was 40.
Three years later his wife emigrated to New Zealand, where some of Edwin's sisters had already settled. with the 7 children on the ship, Ruahine. They settled in Nelson.
|
Pte Alfred Clarke 7th Btn. Manchester Regiment (d.17th Apr 1918) Alfred Clarke was my great uncle from Ashton-u-Lyne, his wife Mary Clarke lived at Granville terrace Ashton-u-Lyne.
|
Cpl. Benjamin Latter 91 Squadron Benjamin Latter (born Barnet Latter in Manchester on 12 Apr 1895) trained as a watchmaker before WW1. In 1911 he was living with his parents at 84 Cheetham Hill Rd, Manchester. His parents, Simon and Mary, were first generation Jewish immigrants from Latvia. They had arrived in England some time before 1871 and took British Citizenship in 1899. Simon had his own business at 84 Cheetham Hill Rd as a grocer.
Benjamin joined the 1/7th Manchester Regiment with regimental number 295047. His military records do not appear to have survived. His RAF records state that he served with the Manchesters from 2 Feb 1917 to 11 Aug 1917 but his Army medal roles indicate that he may have served much earlier in the war. A separate section of his RAF record states that he served 'man service' with the Manchesters at age 21 years one month from 22 Mar 1916 for Duration of War. He clearly served in France as he was admitted to the 1st Australian General Hospital in Rouen on 13 Aug 1917 with trench fever, moving 4 days later to Leith War Hospital.
Benjamin transferred to the RFC on 10 Nov 1917 with regimental number 34498. He was enlisted as an Instrument Repairer, probably selected as such as a result as a result of his pre-war training and experience as a watchmaker. He was posted to 91 Sqn RFC. He transferred to the RAF on 01 Apr 18 with service number 107189. He was transferred to Heston on 23 Aug 1918 and was discharged to the RAF General Reserve on 09 Apr 1919.
After the war Benjamin became, with his younger brother Ellis, a jeweller and watchmaker in Manchester. He married Dolly Solomon on 24 Mar 1924 and passed away in Manchester in 1977.
His family are very proud that, as a second generation immigrant, born a British citizen, Benjamin was able to so faithfully serve his adopted country.
|
2nd Lt. J. Milton Hayes MC 7th Btn. Manchester Regiment Lt. Hayes was a prisoner of war in Mainz Citadel.
|
Pte. Walter Harrison 1st/7th Btn. Manchester Regiment (d.15th Aug 1918) Walter Harrison was killed in action on the 15th of August 1918, aged 23 and is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial in France.
He was the son of Mrs. Margaret Harrison, of 25, Ada St., Burnley, Lancs.
|
Pte. Robert Thomas Whitaker 1/7th Btn. Manchester Regiment (d.27th Sep 1918) Robert Whitaker was the son of Mr R. and Mrs W. Whitaker of Brookfield, 114 Wigan Road, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan. He died aged 19 on the first day of the Battle of the Canal du Nord, and is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial in Calais, France.
|
Pte. Henry Butcher 7th Battalion Manchester Regiment (d.7th Aug 1915) My Great Uncle Henry Butcher was a boy of 23 years when he died in action at Galipoli on the 7th of August 1915. He was in the great regiment the Manchesters. He enlisted in 1914 in Manchester, Lancashire. I'm 71 years of age. I never knew this hero of ours until I got my first
computer a year ago.
What a very short life he lived, but I want to try and imagine of the time
of him enlisting and his death. This period must have been wonderful,the pals he must have made,the wonderful times they had. These are not your day to day pals,these are chaps you bonded with, you trusted, you knew they would never ever let you down. he must have felt safe, in their company,and they in his. In those two years must have been the happy years of his short life. So, I for one, am grateful for that. So many boys, and they were boys, died this this a dreadful war.
God bless all those who died when fighting in the Manchester Regiment.
They did this Regiment proud.
|
Private Francis James Wailey Manchester Regiment (d.10th November 1917) This is a picture of my grandad, Sgt Thomas Farrell (on the right) and his wife's uncle (in the middle), Francis James Wailey, 1/7th Manchester Regiment, Service No 295124, who was killed on 10th November 1917 and is buried at Coxyde Military Cemetery.
He was the husband of Rose Wailey of 20 Wolsey Street, Stanley Road, Kirkdale, Liverpool.
|
Recomended Reading.Available at discounted prices.
|
|
|
Site Home
Help & FAQs
