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From: Iain Kerr <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] 12th Battalion, Manchester Regiment
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 05:42:09 +0000
In-Reply-To: <LPBBIFDCAGGFNFJENMAPEENPGOAA.alan.taylor-howe@ntlworld.com>


At 05:14 PM 07/12/01 +0000, V & A Taylor wrote:
>Dear members,
>It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could give information on my
>paternal great grandmothers sisters' son, was he KIA or DOW, and what
>was the 12 Manchester Regt engaged on and where in the run up to the
>16th November 1915?
>
>Private 13991 Charles WALKER
>12th Battalion, Manchester Regiment
>who died on 16th November 1915. Age 25.
>Son of Elizabeth and Frederick Walker, of 8, Green Lane, Cadishead,
>Manchester, Lancashire.
>Commemorated at YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen,
>Belgium on Panel 53 or 55
>
>Thanking SKS in anticipation,
>
>Alan Taylor (East Midlands UK)

Alan,

"Soldiers Died in the Great War" indicates that he was born and resident at
Cadishead, Lancashire and enlisted in Manchester. It indicates that he was
Killed in Action.

During World War I, The Manchester Regiment formed a total of 44 battalions
from its pre-war establishment of two regular, two reserve and six
territorial battalions. The regiment was awarded a total of 72 battle
honours and eleven of its officers and men gained Victoria Crosses. The
Manchester Regiment suffered a total of 13,770 casualties during the Great War.

The 12th (Service) Battalion, The Manchester Regiment was formed at
Ashton-under-Lyne in Sep 1914 as part of the second of Kitchener's new
armies. It was assigned to 52nd Brigade in the 17th Division at Wool,
Dorset. In Jan 1915 it moved to Wimborne and in Feb back to Wool. In May
1915 the battalion moved to Hursley Park, near Winchester. About 15 Jul
1915 it embarked for France and Flanders, landing at Boulogne. On 24 Sep
1917 it absorbed RHQ and two squadrons of the Duke of Lancaster's Yeomanry
(seven officers and 125 men) that had been dismounted after previously
serving as III Corps Cavalry Regiment. It was renamed The 12th (Duke of
Lancaster's Yeomanry) Battalion. The 12th Battalion ended the war in the
same formations on 11 Nov 1918 near Beaufort, south of Maubeuge, France.

Regimental Museums:

Museum of the King's Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool), in the Museum of
Liverpool Life at Pier Head in Liverpool. The collection covers the
history of the King's Regiment (Liverpool) since 1685, and since its
amalgamation with the Manchester Regiment in 1958. Includes North American
Indian material from the 1783-94 period. The collection of the King's
Regiment was moved from its former location in Liverpool during Phase 3 of
the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside (NMGM) development of the
Museum of Liverpool Life.


There is also the Museum of the Manchesters at Ashton-under-Lyne Town Hall.
See their web page at URL: http://www.tameside.gov.uk/leisure/new/lh35.htm

Regimental Histories:

"History of the Manchester Regiment"; by Col. H. C. Wylly; published in two
volumes in London, 1923.


A new hard-back regimental history published in Oct 2000 covering over
three hundred years of service of the King's Regiment and its
predecessors. Fifty pages and many photographs and maps are devoted to the
eighty seven battalions of the two regiments which served in WWI. Details
available from RHQ (I) The King's Regiment, Ardwick Green, Manchester M12
6HD or email .

Yours aye,

Iain Kerr in Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Web Page at: http://home.clara.net/iainkerr/index.htm
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