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Pte. Bernard William Whyte
British Army 13th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:Liverpool
My grandfather Bernard William Whyte was born in Chatham Kent but moved to Liverpool prior to the outbreak of WW1. He was an employee of Lever Brothers Port Sunlight and he responded to the call to join up. On 7th September 1914, 700 Lever Brothers employees travelled from Port Sunlight to Chester by train and walked the mile to the Cheshire Military Museum at the Castle to enlist in the 13th Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment. They were the largest group of volunteers from any works in the country to sign-up to fight in the First World War.
Bernard, fortunately, survived the war although he was taken POW in April 1918 but he was repatriated at the end of the war. On his service record it states he was awarded the military medal.

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