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'Pals' ready for battle
James Crisp5/ 7/2006
THE NINETIETH anniversary of one of the most infamous battles
in British military history has passed. On the Somme in France,
there were 60,000 casualties in a single day - July 1 1916. Every
community was touched by the battle, including Macclesfield. Here,
reporter JAMES CRISP looks at the role Maxonians played in a battle
which ultimately led to the death of 500,000 British and
Commonwealth soldiers ...
My wifes granddad lost a kidney in the war , but his brother George Carey was killed in Flanders aged 22.
all6 of the Carey's were serving in the war all at the same time. Is that a record?
Brendan O farrell
01704 562547 Southport
2 of them is missing from our research area?
brendan ofarrell, southport
7/09/2006 at 23:29
7/09/2006 at 23:29
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My Gt Grandfather from Dublin, Joseph Niland, served with 179 Tunnelling Company, RE. This unit exploded the mines that signalled the start of the Somme offensive. KIA March 1917.
My Gt Grandfather from Wheelock/Macclesfield, John Shepley, also served with the Royal Engineers. Died in Macc in 1943 from the wounds he received in Nov 1918. His brother James served with the Grenadier Guards and was KIA in 1915.
What a tragic waste of life.
15/09/2006 at 15:23