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6th Battalion of the Manchester Regiment

The 6th Battalion of the Manchester Regiment was a territorial battalion before the First World War and had a wide range of members many of whom were in what were considered white collar jobs. Like the full time Manchester Regiment its recruiting area covered what is today referred to as Greater Manchester. The competition for recruits coming from the Cheshire Regiment in Stockport and the Lancashire Fusiliers in Bury and Ashton.

The 6th were first posted to Egypt and based inparticular in Alexandria where they would complete drill after drill and then drilled them some more. This book also explains what life was like for all members of the 6th Battalion in the hot climate the constant war games and drills as well as practice. All this practise would help them when they were sent to take part in the Gallipoli.

Captain Harold Cawley who also happened to be the Member of Parliament Heywood sent a Parliamentary letter to his father MP for Prestwich which revealed it reported the mishandling of the Dardanelles campaign which helped to remove the architect of the campaign the bungling failure of an ex soldier Winston Churchill.

In 1917 the 6th Battalion were eventually moved to the European theatre of war and was sent to France and Belgium. Throughout the book John Hartley gives an honest account of the battles they faced and the deaths of not only the officers but the men. This really is their story as we see the war through their eyes, from letters and diaries.

At the end of each chapter where the Battalion has taken part in a battle it lists those who were killed with a little about the soldier and where he was from. The final chapter is the roll of honour and where the soldiers are either buried or remembered on a Memorial abroad.

John Hartley the author tells why he became interested in the 6th Manchesters and it is all down to my local memorial and the missing name of Sergeant Tom Worthington who is mentioned in the early part of the book before he is killed in Action. Through the author’s hard work in 2008 Worthington’s name was added to the Helles Memorial.
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