World War 1 Background and local history

Shooting of Franz Ferdinand, Sarajevo 1914
WAR AT SEA
1914 - 1918
Roll of Honour
The original is on display in the other Hall
Officers from Cheadle
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Lt Col James Magnus
RFA
Lt Col Alan J Sykes VD MP 1/6th Cheshires
Springfield, Mill Lane
South Side
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Maj Edgar Smalley 20th Manchesters
Maj Humphrey Watts
1/5th Cheshires
Highfield
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Cpt Harold C Lings 8th Manchesters
5 Milton Cres.
Cpt James Milnes 9th Lancashire Fusiliers Bassendene
Cpt Herbert John Rose
8th Manchesters
Tregenna, Cricket Field
Cpt James Smalley Indian Medical Service Langlands
Cpt A Ashton Smalley
RAMC
Langlands
Cpt Henry Wilson
3rd East Lancs Field Amb 16 Stockport Rd
Lt Andrew
Lt Arthur Ball
Lt Kenneth Bean
Lt Peter Garvie
Abney Hall
The Rectory
3rd KO (Royal Lancaster) 20 Ashfield Rd
RAMC
Linden Ho. The Cres.
RGA
The Rectory
Officers from Cheadle
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Lt Basil Magnus
40th Pathan
Lt Cuthbert Macdona
Army Transport Corps
Lt Frederick J Milne French Red Cross
Lt Alec Milne
Manchesters
Lt Hugo Pollock
RFA
Lt Harry Taylor
Indian Regt
Lt H Lionel Watts
2/11th City of London
Lt George Westcott 2/8th Manchesters
Lt Thomas Wood
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2nd Lt John Atkinson
10th KO (Royal Lancaster)
233 Stockport Rd
2nd Lt George Dawes
5th Border Regt
47 Gatley Rd
2nd Lt John Leete 14th Cheshires
Brook Lodge
2nd Lt Norman Marriott
Leics Regt.
The Grange
2nd Lt Thomas R Worthington 6th Manchesters
187 Stockport Rd
2nd Lt Frank Woodall
OTC
54 Wilmslow Rd
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Malcolm M Milne
British RC (Italian Unit) Belmont
Cecil Austin Porritt Royal Welch Fusiliers
Bruntwood
Springfield, Mill Lane
The Rectory
Belmont
Belmont
Abney Hall
6 Massie St
Abney Hall
Westgate, The Crescent
The Rectory
F Company “Cheadle” on Cheadle Green
1896
F Company “Cheadle” on Cheadle Green
Maj. Edgar Smalley
1914
Other Ranks on the Roll of Honour
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Cheshire Regiment
74
5th Cheshires (from Chester but includes Cheadle)
6th Cheshires (from Stockport)
Manchester Regiment
36
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Royal Field Artillery (RFA)
29
Royal Engineers (RE)
23
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Army Service Corps (ASC)
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Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC)
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Lancashire Fusiliers
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Others
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293
Army
277
Royal Navy 13
Royal Flying Corps 3
25%
These included Welsh, Scottish and Southern Regiments, Cavalry, Garrison Artillery
12%
7%
17%
etc.etc.
1914 - Off to the War
The evolution of the Territorial Force
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1859 Parliament passes a Bill for the formation of part-time volunteer forces.
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1860 Cheadle raises the 26th Rifle Corps as part of the 3rd Administrative Battalion led by W. Tatton of
Wythenshawe Hall and based on Altrincham.
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1864 the headquarters moves to Knutsford.
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1880 re-organised as the 3rd Battalion Cheshire Rifle Volunteer Corps with 8 companies. Cheadle
becomes ‘F’ Company.
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1887 was designated as 3rd Volunteer Battalion Cheshire Regiment.
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1908 the Territorial Force replaces the Volunteer Battalions and the 5th (Earl of Chester’s) Battalion the
Cheshire Regiment is formed from the amalgamation of the 2nd & 3rd Volunteer Battalions.
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1914 pre-war, Cheadle and Sale form ‘C’ Company. ‘C’ Company has 3 officers and 158 other ranks
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1915 reduced to 4 companies, Cheadle is part of ‘A’ Company, formed from Knutsford, Cheadle and Sale.
‘A’ Company has 6 officers and 252 other ranks.
Cheadle Drill Hall, Brook Rd.
Training Camp, Conwy 1909
L/Cpl Joseph Goodier 1897
(2nd on the left)
Sgt Joseph Goodier
L/Bdr R W Bullock and
Seaman R P Bullock
CHEADLE & GATLEY 1914-1918
THE HOME FRONT
Cheadle and Gatley Volunteers -‘Home Guard’
V.A.D. nurses and Cheadle House
Hospital
Women in munitions – Stockport and Cheadle
War efforts of Cheadle and Gatley primary schools
Handforth internment and Prisoner of War camp 1914 – 1919
CHESHIRE VOLUNTEER
REGIMENT – CHEADLE &
GATLEY DETACHMENT
Recruitment in Gatley
Cheshire Volunteer Regiment
Gatley Volunteers in the vicarage garden
Lapel badge of Cheshire Volunteer
Regiment
Gatley Volunteers on parade with shotguns
Rev John Bruster private in Cheshire Volunteer
uniform
Rev Bruster and Lt Lowcock guarding Sopwith 1 ½
Strutter plane in a field overnight
Cheadle Volunteers marching
Cheadle Volunteers with German gun
CHEADLE HOUSE
HOSPITAL
Cheadle House military hospital
Cheadle Hospital VAD nurses and soldiers
Local VAD nurses and soldiers at Cheadle House
(left- Audrey Shimwell; right- Edith Bruster)
Soldiers and nurses in Cheadle House garden
Cheadle hospital soldiers on outing to Kinsey’s
Farm, Old Hall Road, Gatley
Barnes Hospital charity football team supporting
military hospitals 1916
WOMEN IN MUNITIONS
Munitions workers at Georges Road factory
Stockport
Women munition workers’ trouser suits and
“War service” badges for men workers
Horwich railway works shell factory similar to
Georges Road Stockport
National shell filling factory at Chilwell, Notts
the destination of Georges Road shells
Read’s garage, Cheadle High Street, producing
buckets for military diggers in WW1
Workshop at Harrison’s garage Wilmslow Road
Cheadle produced shell caps in WW1
WAR EFFORTS OF CHEADLE &
GATLEY PRIMARY SCHOOLS
1914 – 1918
CHEADLE PRIMARY SCHOOL - BUILT 1910
• 13/11/1914 Several Belgian children arrived at the school
• 22/5/1915 Children from Cheadle Infants School sent a
parcel to Cheadle Territorials of 1/5th Cheshire Regiment
via Lancashire and Cheshire Comforts Fund. Comprising:
“ 47packets of notepaper, envelopes and postcards, 32
packets of cigarettes, 8 pairs of socks, bootlaces, Vaseline,
soap, handkerchiefs” They received a letter of thanks from
the Front.
• 16/11/1915 Thomas Hambles –assistant teacher, enlisted
• 9/6/1916 James Bennett -1st assistant teacher, enlisted
Both teachers returned to the school in February 1919
ST JAMES PRIMARY SCHOOL, GATLEY
• Sewing and knitting parties of garments for soldiers,
distributed by the Red Cross
• Receiving centre for fruits, flowers and gifts sent to
Whitworth Street Military Hospital Manchester
• 42 boxes of gingerbread, 100 Easter eggs decorated and
packed in boxes made by children, some sent to Cheadle
House Hospital
• Artificial roses made by the school and sent to hospitals on
St George’s Day
• 1918 Herbs and wild fruits packed in the schoolroom,
including 57lbs of blackberries sent to Reddish, 33lbs of
chestnuts to Bibby & Sons, Liverpool
HANDFORTH PoW CAMP 1914 -1919
Handforth camp (print works) on River Dean
Handforth Print Works – Internment & PoW
camp
German PoWs marching to camp from
Handforth station
Handforth camp - view across the works lodge
Table of numbers present at Handforth camp
1914-1919
Prisoner escapes from Handforth camp
• May 1916 –soldier and sailor escaped, recaptured
at Gorton
• August 1916 – 3 escaped, 2 recaptured at Bingley
and 1 at Otley, Yorkshire
• August 12 &13 1917 – Soldier and sailor escaped,
at large for more than a month sheltered by
friends?
• November 1917 – 5 sailors escaped, 3 recaptured
at Stalybridge, other 2 a week later at Portsmouth
In memory of all those from Cheadle and Gatley
who served and sacrificed at home and abroard
GATLEY WAR MEMORIAL
1914 - 1918,
William T ALMOND
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Frank DUNNING
Frederick FALLOWS
Charles GARLICK
William T HANKINSON
Clifford HARDING
James W HEWITT
George HOLDEN
Victor E LUCAS
Albert MINSHALL
Leonard PRITCHARD
Albert POTTS
Cyril STREET
Leonard TRURAN
William TAYLOR
Thomas WOOD
Charles D WARDLE
Dennis S ARNETT
Gordon ASHTON
Douglas H BROOKS
Kenneth BROWN
Peter BURROWS
Douglas J CHEW
Allan CLOUGH
L E COLLINSON
Kenneth COOPER
Andrew G DICK
Richard DICK
Herbert James DIXON
L E DOLBEAR
Jack H EASTWOOD
Geoffrey GODDARD
Geoffrey HARRISON
Dennis HART
Gordon HAMILTON
Henry HUDSON
William M O JONES
Sidney KENDERDINE
Stuart LOWE
Raymond MORRIS
Frank PEARSON
David PRITCHARD
Alfred ROTHWELL
B M SAYERS
Rodney St James SMITH
George STONE
Geoffrey WHITEHURST
Alan E WHITTAKER
W E WILLIAMS
To the Glory of God and in memory of Gatley men who died for honour and freedom in the Great War
CHEADLE WAR MEMORIAL
1914 ~ 1919
William ACTON
Frank ADAMSON
Ronald ADAMSON
George A BAILEY
James BAILEY
Alfred BALL
Arthur BALL
Alec J BARDSLEY
Walter BERRY
Christopher BOLLARD
Charles BRADBURY
Tim BRIDDON
Arthur BROWN
Frank BUXTON
William CALLAN
Joseph V CARR
Reginald S CARR
Walter CARTER
Herbert P CHANTLER
Joseph CHANTLER
James H CHESTER
Alfred CHORLTON
John CLIFFORD
Robert CLIFFORD
Thomas COOMBES
Harold E CROSSFIELD
William DARBYSHIRE
George H DAWS
Sydney DAVIES
Charles DYKE
Charles DYSON
Harry EASTWICK
Arthur E EVANS
Sydney EVERETT
Fred FINNEY
Philip G FINNEY
John H FOX
Horace FRANKLIN
Peter GALT
Peter T GARVIE
Charles GOODWIN
Edward O HARROP
Ernest HARROP
George T HAWKYARD
John C HODGKINSON
George A HOLDEN
Arthur HOLT
Alfred HOOLEY
Thomas H HOOLEY
Frank HORNE
Albert HOUGH
John HUDSON
Arthur IRELAND
Harold JONES
Arthur LAMB
Alfred LEATHER
Herbert LEATHER
Edward LEE
Fred LEE
Leonard LEE
Harold E LILES
Frank S LILES
Norman C MARRIOTT
Fred MEDLICOTT
Edward MERCER
Wilfred MIDWINTER
Alexander L MILNE
James MARSHALL
Frank NEWTON
Frederick M PAULL
Arthur W PERRY
Edwin PICKERING
William PIMBLOTT
Edward J POTTS
William RENSHAW
Robert ROGERS
Herbert James ROSE
Leonard ROUGHTON
Charles RUSSELL
Frederick J RUSSELL
Percy SAGAR
Ernest J SHEPPARD
William SMELLEY
Albert SMITH
Francis H SMITH
William SMITHSON
Percy J SOUTHWORTH
John E STREET
Harry SUTCLIFFE
George V SWIFT
William S TELFORD
George H THOMAS
Jack WARBURTON
James F WHITWORTH
Robert WILKINSON
Geoffrey WILSON
Harry W S WALL
Thomas R WORTHINGTON
Arthur WRENCH
Charles WRENCH
Fred WRENCH
To the Glory of God and in grateful remembrance of the men of the
village who fell in the Great War