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11th Battalion, Manchester Regiment
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Those known to have served with11th Battalion, Manchester Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Ackerman Albert. Pte/Cpl
- Akid Robert. Pte. (d.16th August 1917)
- Ball Stephen John. L/Cpl. (d.16th Aug 1917)
- Benson Joseph. L/Cpl. (d.9th Jan 1917)
- Caine Matthew. Pte. (d.17th Aug 1917)
- Carroll Stephen. Sgt. (d.22nd Aug 1915)
- Carver George H.. Pte. (d.29th May 1917)
- Clarke Samuel. Cpl.
- Dawson Halliwell. Pte. (d.30th Sep 1918)
- Galley MM. James. Pte. (d.16th Aug 1917)
- Grady Edward. Pte. (d.27th Sep 1916)
- Hoath Martin. Pte. (d.29th Aug 1916)
- Jones Samuel S.. L/Cpl. (d.5th Oct 1917)
- Kemp Edward. Pte. (d.19th Aug 1915)
- Lavelle John. Pte. (d.5th April 1916)
- Littleford William. Pte. (d.6th Oct 1918)
- Litton Gervase. L/Cpl. (d.11th Jan 1917)
- Litton Gervase. L/Cpl. (d.11th January 1917)
- Marsh Edward. Pte. (d.7th Aug 1915)
- McLoughlin John. Pte.
- Mooney Christopher. L/Cpl. (d.7th Aug 1915)
- Morris John. Sgt
- Newby Ernest. L/Cpl. (d.17th Oct 1917)
- Owen Robert. Pte.
- Peet Peter. Pte. (d.16th Aug 1917)
- Standage Arthur Arnold. Pte. (d.28th May 1918)
- Thompson William Henry. L/Cpl. (d.4th Oct 1917)
- Uttley Edward. Sgt.
- Watson James Richard. Pte.
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Pte. Peter Peet 11th Btn. Manchester Regiment (d.16th Aug 1917) Peter Peet was killed by sniper fire in Flanders.
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Pte. Edward Grady 11th Btn. Manchester Regiment (d.27th Sep 1916) Edward Grady was one of my great uncles, who died at the Battle of the Somme and is remembered with honour on the Thiepval Memorial.
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Pte. Edward Kemp 11th Btn. Manchester Regiment (d.19th Aug 1915) Edward Kemp was the beloved husband of Edith Oldham, dearest Father of Marion and Harold.
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Pte. William Littleford 1/9th Battalion Manchester Regiment (d.6th Oct 1918) My Grandfather William Littleford joined the Territorial Army in Ashton Under Lyne in 1908 his number then was 48 At the outbreak of WW1 his Battalion 1/9th sailed to Egypt in preparation for the Gallipoli Offensive. They sailed from Alexandria in the SS Ausonia and landed on V Beach on 9th May 1915 under heavy fire. After the evacuation from Gallipoli he served in Egypt then the Veneto Region of Italy where he fought in the Battle of the Piave River. Now joined to 21st Battalion he entered the Western Front where he lost his life due to being gassed during the Battle of Beaurevoir.
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Cpl. Samuel Clarke 11th Btn. Manchester Regiment Samuel Clarke served with the 11th Battalion, Manchester Regiment.
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Sgt. Edward Uttley 11th Battalion Manchester Regiment My Grandfather Ted Uttley was a sergeant in the 11th Battalion, Manchester Regiment in WW1.
He landed at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli on the 6th of August 1915, in lighters towed by destroyers. The 11th he came under fire immediately, followed later by clearing trenches by bayonet. They had little food and no water and only their rifles for the first few days. He was wounded by rifle fire, and evacuated to Egypt, and then back to the UK. On recovery, he became a training Sergeant, at Ladysmith Barracks, Ashton-under-Lyne.
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Pte. John Lavelle 11th Btn. Manchester Regiment (d.5th April 1916) John Lavelle of the 11th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, died of wounds received at the Dardanelles on 5th of April 1916. Age 26, he was the son of Michael and Emily Lavelle. He is buried in St. Josephs Roman Catholic Cemetery, Moston, Lancashire.
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Pte. James Galley MM. 11th Btn. Manchester Regiment (d.16th Aug 1917) James Galley worked at Bradford Coal Pit in Manchester for 15 years before joining up at the outbreak of War. He was married to Harriet Dance and they had a daughter who died young. He lived at Thomas St Miles Platting Manchester.James initially went to Gallipoli and was 33 when he died during the Battle of Langemarck in the area of Passchendaele.
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Pte. George H. Carver 11th Btn. Manchester Regiment (d.29th May 1917) Private George Carver is buried in Pond Farm Cemetery, just outside Ypres, grave reference O.15.
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Pte. Robert Akid 11th Btn. Manchester Regiment (d.16th August 1917) Robert Akid would have been my great uncle. All we know of his death is that he was allegedly shot by a sniper. He left a wife Bertha and a child, Peter, who died.
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Pte/Cpl Albert Ackerman 11th Btn. Manchester Rgt. Albert Ackerman, my grandfather, joined the 11th Manchester Regiment in August 1914. He received the Military Medal - Three Blue Chevrons, the Victory Medal, the British Medal and the 15 Star. His specialist military qualifications was the Lewis Gun. He transferred to the Army Reserve on 25th March 1919.
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Sgt. Stephen Carroll 11th Battalion Manchester Regiment (d.22nd Aug 1915) In Memory of Sergeant Stephen Carroll No 2594 11th Battalion Manchester Regiment Age 42. Killed in Action at Gallipoli on the 22nd of August 1915. I was going through my father's things to help him move and he gave me a box of old letters. I have no photo or any other information.
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L/Cpl. Gervase Litton 11th Btn. Manchester Regiment (d.11th Jan 1917) Gervase Litton was a postman. He joined up in May 1916 and commenced his duty with the 4th Manchester Battalion. He wrote his will at the end of that month. He appears to have then been attached to the 11th Manchesters with whom he crossed to France. Sadly, there is no further information about him until notice of his death in January 1917. His body remains unfound and my grandfather is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial - one of the 72000 missing on the Somme. He died, it would seem, in a late skirmish on the Ancre, along with 82 other soldiers that day, all lives wasted. When I see the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, I dream it could be him. Gervase was 34 years old and the father of four children, my father, Francis Gervais, being the youngest.
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Pte. Matthew Caine 11th Battalion Manchester Regiment (d.17th Aug 1917) Matthew Caine was a father of 4 who died aged 34. Before joining the army, he worked as a collier for the Wigan Coal and Iron Co. He enlisted in October 1914. He was a stretcher bearer with the Manchester Regiment.
He was killed whilst trying to save one of his comrades, 17th August 1917. His body was never found. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
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L/Cpl. Samuel S. Jones 22nd Btn Manchester Regiment (d.5th Oct 1917) My great granddad Samuel Jones fought and was wounded at Gallipoli and evacuated. He was sent to France where he suffered trench fever. He returned to France and died of wounds on the 5th October 1917, received in the fighting at Broodseinde Ridge (part of the Battle of Passchendaele) on 4th October 1917.
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L/Cpl. Stephen John Ball 11th Btn. Manchester (d.16th Aug 1917) Stephen John Ball was my Great Grandfather. He was born in Liverpool on 19 Nov 1884. In 1915 he was living at 3 White Street, Warrington, occupation Pawnbroker's Assistant, when he enlisted in the South Lancashire Regiment. He later transferred to the 11th Btn Manchester Regiment. He was killed in action on 16th of Aug 1917 and is buried at Poelcappelle Cemetery.
His widow Annie (nee McDonald) was left with 3 children aged 9, 7 and 5. She was subsequently awarded a pension of 19 shillings and 6 pence per week.
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Pte. Edward Marsh 11th Battalion Manchester Regiment (d.7th Aug 1915) My great grandad Edward Marsh landed at Suvla Bay on the 6th August 1915 and very quickly his battalion had cleared Turkish trenches with the use of bayonets. The following day during another attack Edward was killed, that is about all we know about him. My great grandad was a hero
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L/Cpl. Christopher Mooney 11th Battalion Manchester Regiment (d.7th Aug 1915) Lance Corporal Mooney died at Gallipoli on 7th August 1915 and is remembered at the Helles Memorial. His older brother Robert died in France in April 1917.
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Pte. Halliwell Dawson 11th Btn. Manchester Regiment (d.30th Sep 1918) Helliwell Dawson was born 1890 in Mythomroyd, Yorkshire but within a few years had moved back to Ashton-under-Lyne where his family originated from.
In 1908 he married a local girl Mary Jane Barber and went to reside in Hill Street, Ashton where they had three children, Harry, Thomas and John.
Helliwell served in Egypt, Gallipoli and France where he fought at Arras, the Somme and Messines Ridge. He was killed in September 1918 when supporting the Canadian Infantry who were attacking the Hindenburg Line in the Battle of the Canal du Nord. During an advance on Cauchicourt Farm and whilst crossing a ridge he and his platoon came under heavy machine gun fire of which Helliwell, his commanding officer and several other ranks became casualties. He is buried at Chapel Corner Cemetery, Suchy-Lestree alongside his commanding officer and others killed in the same action. His name is commemorated on the Ashton War Memorial and I have a professionally taken photograph of Helliwell in uniform with two of his mates.
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L/Cpl. Ernest Newby 11th Btn Manchester Regiment (d.17th Oct 1917) Ernest Newby was born in Oldham, Lancashire. He became a spindle maker and joined the Manchester regiment in 1916.
Ernest was part of S Company and was involved in a battle at pheasant trench, near Langemark, Belgium. He was wounded on 3rd/4th October 1917. He later died of his wounds and was buried at Mendinghem Military Cemetery.
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