MLFHS, Oldham & District Branch Meeting and talk
Online on zoom Details: 'Passchendaele .. 1917... and some of the local men who lost their lives' A free, illustrated talk, on zoom, given by Sheila Goodyear The Battle of 3rd Ypres, Passchendaele, continued from 31st July to mid November. In that time there were 8 distinct Battles in which many hundreds of local men lost their lives. Sheila Goodyear has a personal link though her great uncle, Edward Garside Whitehead. Edward enlisted in the Grenadier Guards and was killed in action, as a machine gunner, age 21. His body was never recovered and he is remembered on the Menin Gate, Ypres. In th...
Source: oldham-chronicle.co.uk