3rd Manchester Rifles
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The 3rd Manchester Rifles, later the 7th Battalion, Manchester Regiment was a unit of Britain's Volunteers and Territorial Force raised in Manchester. It served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front i
Burlington Street drill hall, as rebuilt in 1938
Men of 2/7th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, coming out of the line on the Menin Road, 27 December 1918.
Men of 2/7th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, on the Menin Road, 27 December 1918.
The 21st Lancashire Rifle Volunteers, later the 5th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, was a unit of Britain's Volunteer Force and Territorial Army recruited in and around Wigan. It served as infantry in
3rd Manchester Rifles
…together with those of other TF battalions of the Manchesters and Lancashire Fusiliers, were combined into 45th Provisional Battalion, which became 28th Manchesters on 1 January 1917. It served in 73rd Division and was disbanded in 1918. Officially, 42nd (East Lancashire) Division began reforming at home in April…
Lance-Corporal Alfred Wilkinson, VC.
Zonnebeke by Sir William Orpen.