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
Lance-Corporal Alfred Wilkinson, VC.
Zonnebeke by Sir William Orpen.
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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
5th Battalion, Manchester Regiment
…1/6th Bn in the firing line in the Krithia Nullah sector on 29 June. The battalion then spent the next six weeks alternating in the line with 1/6th and 1/7th Bns, taking casualties steadily. A new attack at Helles (the Battle of Krithia Vineyard) began on 6 August. 88th Brigade of 29th Division wa to launch the…
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.