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Battle of Manchester Hill - 16th Battalion Manchester Regiment
Battle of Manchester Hill - 16th Battalion Manchester Regiment
Community provided for students at Manchester schools (and other interested parties) participating in commemorative events for the Battle of Manchester Hill. Manchester Hill was an area of high ground just outside San Quentin in Northern France. It was so named because it was captured by the 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment in 1917. On March 21 1918 at the start of what was known as the 'Spring Offensive' the Hill was attacked by the German Army and defended by the 16th Battalion, Manchester Regiment (part of the Manchester Pals). Despite a heroic defence led by Col. Elstob (who was awarded a posthumous VC) the action was unsuccessful with many of the battalion dead or wounded by 4pm on that day.
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Died 1918
British Army 36276 Private Manchester Regiment 16th Battalion
More about Timothy Curtin -
Born 1894
Died 1918
British Army 6233 Private Manchester Regiment 16th Battalion.
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Born 1896
Died 1918
British Army 27100 Private Manchester Regiment 16th Battalion.
More about Elijah Collinge -
Born 1890
Died 1918
British Army 19224 Private Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
British Army 43101 Private Manchester Regiment 16th Battalion.
More about Lawrence Bunting -
Born 1894
Died 1918
British Army Captain Manchester Regiment 8th manchest Battalion
British Army Captain Manchester Regiment 8th Battalion Attd 16th Battalion.
More about Edward Neville Ashe -
Born 1894
Died 1918
British Army 3568 (Incomplete) Private Manchester Regiment 16th Battalion.
More about Ernest Jackson -
Died 1918
British Army 50994 Private Manchester Regiment 16th Battalion.
More about Frederick Bean -
Born 1889
Died 1918
British Army 49421 Private Manchester Regiment 16th Battalion.
More about John Joseph Joyce -
Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army 54691 Private Manchester Regiment 16th Battalion.
More about Harry Edwards -
Died 1918
British Army 9203 Private Manchester Regiment
British Army 9203 Lance Corporal Manchester Regiment 16th Battalion.
More about Robert Wilson -
Died 1918
British Army 4022 Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
British Army 40850 Private Manchester Regiment 16th Battalion.
More about Charles Rick -
Born 1897
Died 1918
British Army 43783 Private Manchester Regiment 16th Battalion
More about Thomas Robert Rosewarren -
Born 1897
Died 1918
British Army 2354 Private Manchester Regiment 16th Battalion.
More about Bernard Rouse -
Born 1896
Died 1918
British Army 9235 Private Manchester Regiment 16th Battalion.
More about Richard Owen -
Born 1895
Died 1918
British Army 377948 Private Manchester Regiment 16th Battalion.
More about Fred Moran -
Born 1894
Died 1918
British Army 46817 Private Manchester Regiment 16th Battalion
More about Alfred H Hopkinson -
Born 1899
Died 1918
British Army 401042 Private Manchester Regiment 16th Battalion
More about John Mercer -
Born 1894
Died 1918
British Army 17545 Private Border Regiment
British Army 43029 Private Manchester Regiment 16th Battalion.
More about Henry J Kindleysides -
British Army 422 Liverpool Regiment
British Army 584 Manchester Regiment
British Army 2526 (Incomplete) Private Manchester Regiment
More about Joseph Devon -
Born 1894
Died 1918
British Army 27307 Private Manchester Regiment
British Army 27307 Lance Corporal Manchester Regiment 16th Battalion.
More about Oswald Green