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			Name		Age		Burial Location
		Info Info: Pvt. Manchester Regiment. Listed as "Wounded" on the Casualty List issued by the War Office 16/10/1914 in Flanders area of France.As of 6th July 1916, he was entitled to wear a wounded stripe on his uniform (a vertical line above the right hand cuff). Died at Prestwich Asylum, and was buried in an unmarked grave, he is commemorated alongside 11 other soldier inmates. One of 14 soldiers buried in St Mary's Churchyard, who died between 1918 and 1921, as inmates of what was then called Prestwich Mental Hospital, formally The Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum. The Hospital had become the largest such institution in Europe by 1903, and the churchyard here has around 5,300 unmarked pauper graves of inmates.	ANDERSON, THOMPSON			30/12/1919	ST. MARY
		Info Info: Sgt. Wireless Op./Air Gnr, RAFVR. Took off on a training exercise from Wellesbourne, when engine failure caused the aircraft to crash at neraby Staple Hill Farm.F/O E J K LeClaire RCAF and Sgt J T K Anderson were killed. Sgt Larson survived.	ANDERTON, JOHN THOMAS			11/6/1943	ST. MARY
		Info Info: Private Pioneer Corps, Son of Samuel and Bella Angel, of Salford.	ANGEL, MARK JONAH		24	14/01/1942	RAINSOUGH
		Info Info: Lieut.6th Bn. Royal Scots.	BARKER,NELLO			14/3/1917	ST. MARY
		Info Info: John served with 57 OTU (Officer Training Unit) at RAF Eshott, Northumberland. His Spitfire, N 3266 XO-L, was one of a practice formation of five flying at 4-5,000 feet when, at 9.25am, 19th November 1943, it collided with Spitfire K 9824 XO-V. K9824 crashed one mile north east of Hill Farm, Longwitton Hill, Northumberland. John's Spitfire came down some 500 yards further east, making an attempted landing, near Netherwitton, some 6 miles north east of the town of Morpeth. Both pilots were killed. The pilot of K6824 was F/O Edwin Alexander Merkley, RCAF.	BARKLAM,JOHN	J W	21	19/11/1943	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:Corporal, Army Service Corps, Reserve M.T. Depot. 2/1ST KENT CYCLIST BATTN.Son of Mrs. Frances Ann Barlow, of 17, Whittaker Lane, Heaton Park	BARLOW, NATHAN			12/2/1917	ST. MARY
		Info Info: Pilot Officer Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve,Sqd 20 OTU. Son of Solomon and Annie Bernstein; husband of Isabel Iris Bernstein. Higher Broughton. Flew on Wellington bomber R3232, markings: ZT-H, out of Lossiemouth. Crashed near Auchtermuchty during training-navigation exercise. Engine failure most likely cause of accident. Fellow servicemen: Adamson D E W (S/L), Hogg W S (Sgt),Singer W (P/O),Styles R G A (Sgt),Tramson L A (P/O)	BERNSTEIN,RALPH ISAAC		29	14/01/1942	RAINSOUGH
		Info Info: 3rd Bn.Manchester Regiment.Son of Charles and Mary Ann Birch.	BIRCH, JAMES		32	22/8/1916	ST. MARY
		Info Info: son of Edward & Annie Blake of Big House Farm, Simister. Served in 7th Bn of The Kings Liverpool Regiment. Their last offensive action of the war was a raid on enemy lines west of Tournai on 2nd November 1918. Edward was discharged on 4th November	BLAKE,EDWARD JACKSON	E J	31	21/11/1918	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:Leonard was based at RAF Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire and training with 16 OTU (Operational Training Unit) as a Wireless Operator and Air Gunner aboard Wellington bombers. On the 27th November 1943 a Mark 3 Wellington BJ823 Took off 04.21 from Upper Heyford for high level bombing practice over Preston Cape Ranges. Some 12 minutes after take-off the Wellington dived and crashed near Culworth, 16 miles south west from centre of Northampton, exploding on impact. There were no survivors from the 5 man crew. Apart from Leonard the other 4 crew members were: John Francis BURTON Sergeant (Pilot)   RAFVR no. 1395372. Robert HART Sergeant  (Navigator)    RAFVR no. 1480803. Daniel Gwyn JAMES Sergeant (Air Bomber)    RAFVR no. 1419008. Edward McCARTHY Sergeant (Air Gunner)   RAFVR no. 1896850	BLUNT,LEONARD	L	22	27/11/1943	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:KATHLEEN BOYES was born on 16th September 1910. She lived at 3 Holmfield Avenue with her parents William James & Fanny Eveline Boyes. She was a Solicitors Shorthand Typist in civilian life and carried that into her active service. In the Womans Auxillary Air Force her rank was Aircraftwoman 2nd Class. This was the lowest rank and covered office staff. Her service took her to the Lake District where she passed away on 1st December 1941. Her death was not due to enemy action but the result of a blood clot. She was 31 years old when she passed away at Conishead Priory, which had been turned into an emergency military hospital. During World War II Conishead became the largest military hospital in the North West with a capacity of 400 patients. During the period of October 1940 - August 1945 8,000 in-patients received treatment in the Hospital.	BOYES,KATHLEEN	K	31	01/12/1941	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:son of Henry & Florence Bridge, serving as Flight Sergeant in the 107 Sqdn.RAFVR equiped with Blenheim Mk IV from Aug.1939, Silas was killed in active service February 19th 1942, aged 19 years. ‘We live in deeds, not years'. After the Italian and German air forces strengthened the air defence of Sicily in December, 1941, and began round-the-clock bombing of the Malta airfields, the 107th was withdrawn and disbanded at Luqa on 12 January 1942. Losses among the squadron had been so heavy – 90% of all original and replacement crews were killed in action during the Malta operations.	BRIDGE, SILAS HARRY			19/2/1942	ST. MARY
		Info Info: Normans father, James Brookes, was the licensee at The Welcome Inn on Bury Old Road. Normans occupation at the start of the war was a Turret Lathe Setter and this probably led him to being a Sapper in The Royal Engineers.As the war progressed the need for more men increased and the gradual abolition of reserved occupations began in January 1942 when the age limit was increased by 1 year on the 1st of each month. Norman would therefore have become eligible for military service in the July of 1942. Norman was stationed at Keldy Castle Training Camp, near Pickering, Yorkshire, when he passed away, the result of a collision between two army trucks whilst he was a passenger.	BROOKES,NORMAN	N	36	26/12/1942	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info: William J. Brownsett son of Ernest & Fanny Brownsett,Private,1st Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment), died November 26th 1918 from wounds received in France aged 19 Years. Thy will be done.	BROWNSETT, WILLIAM			26/11/1918	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Private,Lancashire Fusiliers. Died at Prestwich Asylum.	BRYANT, ARTHUR			2/8/1921	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Son of Henry and Alice Corkin of 3 Princess Road.Henry Junior was in the 2nd/8th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers. This was a Territorial Army Battalion. In 1939 it was responsible for security of the Salford area. They moved to Ripon in 1940, and then to Malton and Norton and after that to Lowestoft coast watching. Wokingham and then Hastings St Leonard were next in January 1941. Exercises in Aldershot and Amesbury that summer were followed by a move to Hull in December 1941. May 1942 saw them at Keldy Castle Yorks. In January 1943 they moved to Bridestowe and they took part in some important waterproofing trials. Henry Corkin passed away on 11th May 1943 at Wolstenholme Hall in Norden from Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Wolstenholme Hall is now Nutters Restaurant, belonging to Prestwich Chef Andrew Nutter. At the time it was a specialist TB Hospital.	CORKIN,HENRY	H	20	11/05/1943	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:4th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment). Died at Prestwich Asylum, and was buried in an unmarked grave, he is commemorated alongside 11 other soldier inmates. One of 14 soldiers buried in St Mary's Churchyard, who died between 1918 and 1921, as inmates of what was then called Prestwich Mental Hospital, formally The Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum. The Hospital had become the largest such institution in Europe by 1903, and the churchyard here has around 5,300 unmarked pauper graves of inmates.	CRITCHLOW, HENRY			23/7/1918	ST. MARY
		Info Info: Son of Harry & Alice of 9, King's Rd. Sedgley Park. Signalman, HMS "Vivid" R.N.V.R. died at Royal Navy Hospital Plymouth.	DALTON, GEORGE		19	27/9/1918	ST. MARY
		Info Info: Son of May and Ernest Davenport, Fusilier, 1/8th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers, died of wounds July 15th 1940, aged 20. Harold died from wounds received during the Battle of Dunkirk. ‘Forever honoured.’	DAVENPORT, HAROLD		20	15/7/1940	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Son of Ernest and Fanny Davies.Private, 2nd Bn. Manchester Regiment, died as the result of an accident	DAVIES, WILLIE		24	30/12/1941	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Son of Martin and Sadie Delahunty.Martin Jnr.was a member of 640 Squadron, first formed in January 1944 at RAF Leconfield, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It was a heavy bomber squadron equipped with Halifax MkIII bombers. Martin Delahunty and five members of his crew (1 survived) died on 2nd February 1945 as a result of an accident shortly after take-off to undertake an operational flight to bomb an oil refining plant at Wanna-Eickel. The aircraft crashed into Lakes Wood, north of Beverley.	DELAHUNTY,MARTIN	M	21	02/02/1945	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:Son of George and Lillie Dubberley. George Jnr. lived at 45 Heys Road. George Dubberley was a Gunner with the Royal Artillery and served on the home front protecting Her Majesty’s Naval Base Devonport (Plymouth). The royal dockyards at Plymouth and Portsmouth were prime targets for the Luftwaffe. Despite this the dockyards continued in operation. The first bombs fell on the city on Saturday 6 July 1940 killing three people. In early 1941, five raids reduced much of the city to rubble. Attacks continued as late as May 1944 with two minor air raids in that month. During the 59 bombing attacks, 1,172 civilians were killed and 4,448 injured. What was known as The Plymouth Blitz occurred on the night of 20/21st March 1941. It was during this night that George Dubberley died. Charles Church, destroyed by incendiaries on the nights of 20–21 March 1941, has been preserved in its ruined state as a memorial to civilian victims of the Blitz.	DUBBERLEY,GEORGE	G		20/03/1941	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:son of James Galloway and Sarah Galloway of Ancoats. Harold lived at 110 Polefield Circle.Harold served with The Pioneer Corps as a Motor Lorry Driver. The Pioneer Corps was a British Army combatant corps used for light engineering tasks. It was formed in 1939. Pioneer units performed a wide variety of tasks in all theatres of war, including stretcher-bearing, handling all types of stores, laying prefabricated track on beaches, and effecting various logistical operations. Harold's service took him to North Africa, but he passed away at home from stomach cancer.	GALLOWAY,HAROLD	H	40	27/03/1943	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:George Gill and Dora Gill of 24 Bent Lane.Stanley was serving aboard HMS Implacable when he died after the war in 1947. HMS Implacable was an aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy during World War II. Upon completion in 1944, she was initially assigned to the Home Fleet and attacked targets in Norway for the rest of the year. She was subsequently assigned to the British Pacific Fleet where she attacked the Japanese naval base at Truk and targets in the Japanese Home Islands in 1945. Implacable returned home in 1946 and became the Home Fleet's deck-landing training carrier. She began a lengthy refit at Rosyth on 17th April 1947. At was at Rosyth Docks that Stanley Gill died as a result of an heroic rescue attempt. An inspection job was being carried out on one of the forward petrol tanks by civilian shipwright James Crawford. He had removed the cover with the help of 2 sailors and was immediately overcome by the fumes and fell in. Immediately Stanley Gill with the help of shipmates Eric Hayward and Thomas Williams went to the rescue. All were, in turn, overcome by the fumes. Organised rescue parties succeeded in rescuing all but Stanley Gill. Gills official cause of death was ‘Anoxia’, an absence of oxygen. His heroic action stirred the community who organised a subscription collection for his widow and two young children.	GILL,STANLEY	S		19/05/1947	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:son of Frederick and Ellen Gloyne of Pinner, Middlesex. Robert was stationed at the RAF Training Camp in Heaton Park. He died from suffocation due to the inhalation of vomit accelerated by acute bronchitis and myocardial failure. An inquest was held on the 24th June where a verdict of Accidental Death was recorded by GJ Ryecroft, Coroner for Manchester.	GLOYNE,ROBERT GEORGE	R G	19	20/06/1942	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:Son of Robert &Helen Lawrie Grant of "Stathspey", Guest Road.Ex Lance Corporal, Royal Fusiliers.James was awarded the Military Medal, the memorial paperwork shows he was a private.	GRANT,JAMES TAYLOR	J T	24	09/11/1920	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:Son of Franklin Hedley Greenhalgh and Edith Annie Greenhalgh of Selby, Yorkshire and Associate of the College of Technology, Manchester.Pilot Officer (Pilot), 106 Sqdn RAF Volunteer Reserve. At the outbreak of the Second World War the squadron was flying Hampdens with No. 5 Group in a training role which continued up until 1 March 1941 when it reverted to front-line status and began regular night bombing operations against Fortress Europe, flying its first bombing raid on Cologne, although it had taken part in some mine laying prior to that.	GREENHALGH, GEORGE	G F E	21	5/7/1941	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Son of Horace and Mabel Hague of Prestwich.Sergeant (Nav.) 102 Sqdn, RAF Volunteer Reserve.By February 1942, the squadron was adopted by Sri Lanka, then Ceylon, and the Whitleys were replaced by the Handley Page Halifax. The squadron continued for the next thirty-six months to fly night sorties (including the thousand bomber raids) over Germany. The squadron took part in a 674 aircraft raid on Nuremburg on the night of the 23rd/24th August 1943. The aircraft was damaged by Flak over the target area, and Jack was killed.The aircraft managed to land at Tangmere on the South coast. [Ref.]	HAGUE, JACK PHILLIP		22	28/8/1943	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Pte Kings (Liverpool) Regiment. Died at Prestwich Asylum.	HALLIDAY, ALFRED			19/4/1921	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Husband of Lily Hardman of 22 Newtown St.Private, 12th Manchester Regiment.	HARDMAN, WILLIAM	W	37	26/06/1919	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:Pte 4th Manchester Regiment. Transferred to 296th Agricultural Coy, Labour Corps. Died at Prestwich Asylum.	HART, JAMES			11/5/1920	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Son of Elizabeth Clegg (formerly Hayes) and the late Mr Hayes of 3 Pons Street, Cheetham Hill.Private 56378 4th King's Liverpool Regiment.	HAYES,THOMAS	T		02/03/1921	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:Pte Labour Corps. Died at Prestwich Asylum, and was buried in an unmarked grave, he is commemorated alongside 11 other soldier inmates. One of 14 soldiers buried in St Mary's Churchyard, who died between 1918 and 1921, as inmates of what was then called Prestwich Mental Hospital, formally The Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum. The Hospital had become the largest such institution in Europe by 1903, and the churchyard here has around 5,300 unmarked pauper graves of inmates.	HEAVER, JOHN			7/11/1919	ST. MARY
		Info Info:son of James and Alice Hislop of Prestwich Park, He had a B.A. from Oriel College, Oxford, for whom he rowed. Capt. 19th Bn. Manchester Regiment.John joined the University Officer Training Corps as an emergency recruit at the start of the war. He was gazetted in September 1914 and served on the Western Front, but died in Oxford in July 1916 following an operation for gastritis. Also commemorated on Prestwich Golf Club Memorial plaque & on the University of Manchester War Memorial, Main Quadrangle.	HISLOP, JOHN ARTHUR		29	8/7/1916	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Son of Henry and Annie Hughes, of 87, Albert Avenue, Prestwich. He served as Leading Telegraphist on H.M.S. "Thrasher",one of four B-class destroyers built in 1895. Each had five 6-pounder guns, and two 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes. They patrolled the East coast of England hunting u-boats.	HUGHES, HARRY		21	26/9/1917	ST. MARY
		Info Info: Son of George and Jenny Hulme of ‘Saxonholme, 87 Glebelands Road.Lieut. 5th King's Liverpool Regiment.Wilfrid contracted trench fever in February 1917. Whilst on leave in May 1918 he was admitted to hospital in Edgbaston, Birmingham with influenza and debility but considered fit to return to his unit by the end of August. There was a world wide pandemic of Spanish Flu at the time. Wilfrid died of pneumonia on 13th November 1918, just 2 days after the armistice.	HULME,WILFRID	W	22	14/11/1918	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:Sergeant (Air Gnr) 49 Sqdn. Royal Air Force (McGarvie below). Equipped with Hampden aircraft they carried out the attack on the Dortmund-Ems Canal on 12 August 1940 despite fierce opposition. Flt Lt R A B Learoyd received the Victoria Cross for his bravery during the attack, the first awarded in Bomber Command. Throughout 1941 many targets were attacked; ports, industrial centres, shipping, marshaling yards and airfields. An then they joined the search for the German Bismark -class battleship Tirpitz. : 11/12 January, 1941; WILHELMSHAVEN/TIRPITZ: The weather at Scampton, on the afternoon of Wednesday 11 was good with a thin layer of cloud around 15,000ft. Shortly after midnight, the squadron prepared to take-off; by 01.45hrs eight of the unit's Hampdens were airborne for Wilhelmshaven in search of the Battleship Tirpitz. By the time the target area was reached, the cloud had thickened to such an extent that only 2 aircraft succeeded in finding the target - the others bombed the dock areas. Flying home across the North Sea in the early morning, F/O Fisher (AD719) and crew were fired upon by an enemy aircraft when within 30 miles of the English coast, fortunately without receiving damage. The squadron's Hampdens started to arrive in the vicinity of Scampton just after 07.00hrs. It was some time later that news came through to base that a 49 Squadron aircraft had come to grief near the Lincolnshire village of Northorpe, not far from Kirton Lindsey airfield - no survivors were reported. It was later discovered that the aircraft had crashed without bombs on board, so it was assumed that P/O Hugh Newhouse (L4045) and crew had completed their sortie and were attempting to regain Scampton when the fatal crash occurred. No reasons for the crash (timed at 07.30hrs) were ever established. The remaining aircraft landed safely at base. The crashed aircraft, L4045, was known to the squadron as "The Queen". She had achieved an amazing total of 786hrs 10mins of operational flying time before the crash. Hampden L4045 P/O H.F.P. Newhouse Pilot (Killed) Sgt P.C. Prosser W/OP (Killed) Sgt H. Irving NAV (Killed) Sgt L. Jackson A/G (Killed).	JACKSON, LEONARD			12/1/1941	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Husband of Madge Jones. Sergeant,11th Bn.Lancashire Fusiliers.Based at Rochdale in 1940 the Bn moved to Dursley in Gloucestershire and from there assisted the people of Bristol during intensive 'Blitz' bombing raids Nov 1940-April 1941.	JONES, CHARLES HERBERT		22	4/1/1941	ST. MARY
		Info Info: Son of Mrs. E. F. Jones, of Penrhynbach, Pennal, Maclynlleth, Montgomeryshire.Private, Royal Army Service Corps. of 22 Leach Street. RASC were the unsung heroes of the British Army in the Great War. Soldiers can not fight without food, equipment and ammunition. They can not move without horses or vehicles. It was the ASC’s job to provide them. In the Great War, the vast majority of the supply, maintaining a vast army on many fronts, was supplied from Britain. Using horsed and motor vehicles, railways and waterways, the ASC performed prodigious feats of logistics and were one of the great strengths of organisation by which the war was won.	JONES, FRANK			2/2/1919	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Husband of Mrs Jones of 1 Orange Hill Road. Second Lieutenant Royal Defence Corps.Harold was killed on active duty by an unknown assailant near the Clarance Road Bridge in Cardiff. The inquest was told of an altercation between Jones and an unknown soldier around midnight on Christmas Day. Jones was found with severe head injuries that the doctor from the Royal Army Medical Corps said could not be from just a fall. A verdict of ‘Manslaughter against some person or persons unknown’’ was passed.	JONES,HAROLD	H		26/12/1917	ST. MARGARET
		Info Info:Son of Harry Jones and Eva of 17 Newtown Street. Kenneth served with 918 Balloon Squadron in Derby. Mainly crewed by the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, these balloons were grouped into Squadrons like fighter aircraft. The balloons were simple to manufacture and operate, and were often anchored to trucks via a winch that could be used to control the balloon’s height. They were designed to hang in the sky, their anchoring cables and hydrogen filling designed to deter any low flying or attacks on the balloons themselves. He was admitted to the Infirmary suffering from a rifle bullet wound. Kenneth committed suicide. The coroner recorded this verdict whilst adding ‘whilst the balance of his mind was disturbed’.	JONES,KENNETH	K	19	26/07/1940	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:Son of Herbert Kenyon Amy, of Prestwich.Flying Officer (Pilot) in 35 Sqdn Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, which flew Halifax bombers out of RAF Linton-on-Ouse. In March 1944 they converted to fly Lancaster Bombers.Lancaster PB366 was one of ten No. 35 Squadron aircraft detailed to attack the Nippes Marshalling Yard (Cologne) on the afternoon of 24th December 1944.“This aircraft crashed after taking off. All members of the crew were killed”.Its seven-man crew comprised: AT Kenyon (Pilot) A Thomas (Navigator) AH Cousins (Air Bomber) CL Blundell (Wireless Operator) CA Winter (Air Gunner) RFA Yallop (Air Gunner) L Williams (Flight Engineer)	KENYON, ARTHUR THOMAS		23	24/12/1944	ST. MARY
		Info Info: Gunner Royal Artillery 360 Bty., 40 (6th Bn. The Sherwood Foresters [Notts. and Derby Regt.]) Searchlight Regt.	KERSH,ISAAC			25/05/1945	RAINSOUGH
		Info Info: Pioneer Corps,Son of James and Friederike Kirschstein; husband of Helene Eva Marie Kirschstein, of Maida Hill, London.	KIRSCHSTEIN,ERNEST		44	19/09/1945	RAINSOUGH
		Info Info:Son of William Edward and Edith Lancaster, of Prestwich.Sergeant (Flight Engineer)218 (Gold Coast)Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. The squadron flew the Stirling on bombing raids in occupied Europe against everything from infantry columns to V-weapon sites. Missions in 1942 included Operation Canonbury 1 and 2[4] on the night of 24 April and 4 May to bomb the Skoda factory at Pilsen in Czechoslovakia in support of the partisan group inserted to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich in Operation Anthropoid. Stirling BF413 had just landed after a successful operation and the aircrew had disembarked when the out of control Short Stirling BF480 killed both Sgt H Lancaster and Sgt A R Denzy. BF480 had, moments earlier, made a difficult landing and crashed through the watch office.	LANCASTER, HAROLD		21	14/5/1943	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Son of Jonathan and Mary Alice Leach, husband of Hannah Leach of 22 Bailey Street. Private,1st Battalion Manchester Regiment.Discharged 1st April 1915 as ‘unlikely to become an efficient soldier’. 127 days total service.	LEACH,J	J	39	05/12/1915	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info: Flight Officer, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 405 (R.C.A.F.) "Vancouver" Sqdn. Son of Soloman and Annie Landau; husband of Belle Landau, of Prestwich. Flew on Halifax W1096, markings LQ-O out of Beaulieu as navigator on a training flight. Due to an incorrect setting, the mid-upper gun was able to fire directly into one of the engines, causing total hydraulic failure. The aircraft went into a spin and crashed at Wicken Bonhunt, Essex. Fellow servicemen Cavanaugh R J (Sgt),Dolding A J (Sgt),Richards G H (WO2)	LANDAU,HYME		26	17/11/1942	RAINSOUGH
		Info Info:Son of Robert Leach and Emily Leach. He was married to Hilda Leach and lived at 57 Polefield Hall Road.His war duty saw him serve with the Royal Artillery, 222nd Independent Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment. From records checked this was based in Derby and provided anti-aircraft cover for the city and industry of Derby. Jack died after the war had finished but would have been seriously ill during active service. He died on 30th December 1945 at Wolstenholme Hall in Rochdale from Tuberculosis. Wolstenholme Hall is now Nutters Restaurant, belonging to Prestwich Chef Andrew Nutter. At the time it was a specialist TB Hospital.	LEACH,JACK	J	36	30/12/1945	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:Private of the Battalion Canadian Infantry,he is placed within the kerbstone of the Morton family plot. The headstone is carved with a maple leaf inside a circle and is inscribed “REMEMBERING YOU WE SHALL BE BRAVE AND STRONG.” Wounded at Vimy Ridge 13/4/17, George died in Bradford Memorial Hospital.	LONGSTAFF, GEORGE HENRY		36	29/4/1917	ST. MARY
		Info Info:son of Charles and Alice Lythe, husband of Evelyn.James served with the Pioneer Corps.A total of 23 pioneer companies took part in the Normandy landings.[10] The novelist Alexander Baron served in one of these Beach Groups and later included some of his experiences in his novels From the City From the Plough and The Human Kind. He also wrote a radio play about the experience of being stranded on a craft attempting to land supplies on the beaches of Normandy. Nos. 85 and 149 Companies, Pioneer Corps served with the 6th Beach Group assisting the units landing on Sword Beach on D Day, 6 June 1944.	LYTHE, JAMES		30	12/11/1944	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Sergeant Obs.408 "Goose" (R.C.A.F.) Sqdn.Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, The squadron operated as part of Bomber Command's main force from 24 June 1941 until the end of the war. At the start of 1942 they were flying Halifax bombers out of Balderton.	MARSDEN, DOUGLAS			25/1/1942	ST. MARY
		Info Info:son of Annie and Herbert McGarvie, lstA.C. 49 Sqdn. Royal Air Force (See Jackson above), killed in flying crash. Handley Page Hampden Mk.I L4034, 49 Squadron, RAF Waddington: Written off (destroyed) 23/11/39 when flew into a hangar while landing in poor visibility at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire. There was eight fatalities: Squadron Leader Percy McGregor (Willy) Watt (pilot, Service Number 16257, aged 33) killed Corporal Archibald McDonald Henderson (Ground Crew, Service Number 565893, aged 24) killed Corporal Thomas Alexander Keating (Navigator, Service Number 348825, aged 46) killed LAC Walter Gerald Kelly (Ground Crew, Service Number 620024) killed LAC George Thomas Landing (Ground Crew, Service Number 619132, aged 30) killed AC.1 Leslie McGarvie (Ground Crew, Service Number 535916, aged 26) killed AC.1 Stanley Taylor (Air Gunner, Service Number 552191, aged 18) killed AC.2 Frank Leslie Talbot (W/Op Air Gunner Service Number 351857, aged 18) killed Corporal A Cooke (Airframe fitter) injured AC.2 M Bastow (Ground Crew) injured Of the eight fatalities, these included all four of the aircrew, plus four personnel working in the hangar that L4034 crashed into; they were killed when they were crushed by one of the engines of L4034, which crashed through the roof of the hangar and fell on them from a great height	McGARVIE, LESLIE		26	23/11/1939	ST. MARY
		Info Info: Son of Lilian Morgan of II Rectory Rd.Lance Corporal,7th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, awardede the Military medal, died of wounds received in France.	MORGAN,GEORGE BEAUMONT	G	31	09/12/1918	ST. MARGARET
		Info Info: Grave registartion states 'alias Young' and cousin living in Bolton. Henry served in the Depot,East Lancashire Regiment. Died at Prestwich Asylum, and was buried in an unmarked grave, he is commemorated alongside 11 other soldier inmates. One of 14 soldiers buried in St Mary's Churchyard, who died between 1918 and 1921, as inmates of what was then called Prestwich Mental Hospital, formally The Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum. The Hospital had become the largest such institution in Europe by 1903, and the churchyard here has around 5,300 unmarked pauper graves of inmates.	MORRIS, HENRY			23/7/1918	ST. MARY
		Info Info: Sergeant Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 466 (R.A.A.F.) Sqdn. Son of Leslie and Annie Noar, of Salford.Flew on Wellington, LN292 HD-J. LN292 was involved in a mid-air collision with another Wellington from 466 Squadron, HZ531, shortly after take off. LN292 crashed into Carlisle Street, Goole about 00:25. All ten crew from both aircraft died.	NOAR,JOSEPH		27	31/08/1943	RAINSOUGH
		Info Info:Son of Henry Pepper and Edith Pepper, Prestwich.He joined the RAF and was posted to 254 Squadron which was part of Coastal Command. No.254 Squadron was formed as a shipping protection squadron, and spent the first half of the war on largely defensive duties, before becoming a torpedo bomber squadron with the North Coates strike wing from 1942 until the end of the war. North Coates was where Henry Norman Pepper served. In June 1942 the squadron moved to Scotland, where it converted to the Bristol Beaufighter. The squadron's targets were normally surface vessels, but in the last few days of the war a number of U-boats were attacked and sunk while attempting to escape from Germany. Henry flew in a Bristol Beaufighter, JL637, as navigator, with pilot Flight Officer Thomas Sowerbutts. On 11th December 1943 this aircraft developed engine trouble whilst on torpedo patrol (called "Rover Patrol") over North Sea. The pilot made for the nearest land and saw the lights of what he probably thought was an airfield but they were the lights of the dummy airfield (Q.Site) near Lazenby Steps, situated close to the mouth of the River Tees. The aircraft attempted to land on this boggy location and was wrecked and caught fire on touching down. RAF Hospital Northallerton attended the scene and reported that the aircraft had crashed on a railway line whilst flying in the dark. Their Operational Record Book(ORB) stated that the pilot was killed instantly but the navigator had initially survived suffering severe head injuries. The ORB also stated "the mobile surgical unit was summoned and transfused the patient three minutes after arrival after the local hospital had made 11 fruitless attempts. He recovered sufficiently to be brought into hospital where he died the next day.	PEPPER,HENRY NORMAN	H N	22	13/12/1943	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info: Corporal Royal Army Medical Corps. Son of Harris and Fanny Pickles, of Manchester; husband of Edith Pickles, of Old Trafford, Manchester. Manchester Communal Burial Board Section.	PICKLES,STANLEY		41	11/07/1945	RAINSOUGH
		Info Info: Fusilier Royal Welch Fusiliers 70th Bn.	POSNER,ISAAC			13/06/1941	RAINSOUGH
		Info Info:Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Rankine, of 27, Kingswood Rd.Served in 6th Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)before becoming Engine Room Artificer 4th Class,at H.M.S. "Vivid II", which was the Stokers and Engine Room Artificers School at Devonport. He had served upon HMS Cumberland for 12 months before returning to Devonport, and dying of Pneumonia. A scroll from his mess-mates was placed on his grave. Royal Navy	RANKINE, ROBERT		27	17/10/1918	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Son of Thomas E & Margaret F Rigby, Major (Technical Officer) in the Air Ministry R.A.F.	RIGBY, FRANCIS BURNHAM			25/9/1918	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Son of William Robinson (Farmer) of Little Nook Farm, Rhodes.Private Border Regiment. William. Enlisted 10th April 1916, discharged 29th October 1919.Discharge due to deformity of feet, originated in childhood. Pension for 52 weeks of 12/- to expire 2nd November 1920.	ROBINSON,	W		25/11/1919	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:Private 22nd Bn. London Regiment. His brother lived in Harringay. Died at Prestwich Asylum, and was buried in an unmarked grave, he is commemorated alongside 11 other soldier inmates. One of 14 soldiers buried in St Mary's Churchyard, who died between 1918 and 1921, as inmates of what was then called Prestwich Mental Hospital, formally The Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum. The Hospital had become the largest such institution in Europe by 1903, and the churchyard here has around 5,300 unmarked pauper graves of inmates.	ROBINSON, FRED LAWRENCE			2/5/1920	ST. MARY
		Info Info:12 Chapel St, Prestwich. Sapper, Corps of Royal Engineers Battalion (Railways).Died of gunshot wounds (both legs, received in action near Ypres 12/10/17. He returned to Britain in Nov 1917, and suffered from depression and insomnia and hallucinations. left behind 3 children.	ROTHWELL, HARRY			28/9/1918	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Lance Corporal Lancashire Fusiliers, 6th Commando died on active service. No. 6 Commando's first involvement in operations came in late 1941 when it contributed small forces to raids in Norway. In April 1942 the whole unit was scheduled to take part in Operation Myrmidon, in France, but this raid was eventually cancelled. As a result, the first full-scale operation that No. 6 Commando took part in was Operation Torch, the Allied landings in Algeria in November 1942. Later, they joined the advance into Tunisia in 1943, before returning to the UK for D-Day preparations. Stanley died as a result of injuries received in a training accident when a grenade accidentally exploded.	ROTHWELL, STANLEY			4/12/1943	ST. MARY
		Info Info:son of Richard and Blanche Rowbotham,Trooper Kenneth Lewis Rowbotham, 54 Trg Reg.Royal Armoured Corps	ROWBOTHAM, KENNETH LEWIS		18	3/7/1945	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Grave report lists Mrs Leonard, Monmouth Street, Salford. Sapper,Royal Engineers. Died at Prestwich Asylum, , and was buried in an unmarked grave, he is commemorated alongside 11 other soldier inmates. One of 14 soldiers buried in St Mary's Churchyard, who died between 1918 and 1921, as inmates of what was then called Prestwich Mental Hospital, formally The Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum. The Hospital had become the largest such institution in Europe by 1903, and the churchyard here has around 5,300 unmarked pauper graves of inmates.	RYDER, THOMAS ROBERT			7/2/1919	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Son of Harold and Jessie Scott, signalman 42nd Armd. Div. Royal Corps of Signals.A square stone flower vase is inscribed: ‘Respected by all who knew him. Pals 42 A.D. Signals.’. On 31 October 1941 42nd (EL) Infantry Division was converted into 42nd Armoured Division. Although 42nd Division dropped the 'East Lancashire' subtitle when it became an armoured formation, the signals unit retained the subtitle. The division returned to Barnard Castle to re-train in its new role. However, it never went overseas, and in October 1943 the division was disbanded and its units dispersed.	SCOTT, KENNETH		22	7/4/1943	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Private 1st Bn. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, transf. to Northern Command Labour Centre (Ripon) Labour Corps.Died at Prestwich Asylum, and was buried in an unmarked grave, he is commemorated alongside 11 other soldier inmates. One of 14 soldiers buried in St Mary's Churchyard, who died between 1918 and 1921, as inmates of what was then called Prestwich Mental Hospital, formally The Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum. The Hospital had become the largest such institution in Europe by 1903, and the churchyard here has around 5,300 unmarked pauper graves of inmates.	SHAW, JAMES			8/5/1920	ST. MARY
		Info Info: German Civilian	SILBERSTEIN,SALOMON		36	17/11/1941	RAINSOUGH
		Info Info:Private, Auxiliary Territorial Service, served in the Pay Corp and was based at Constellation Mill in Radcliffe, she also took part in the roof-top fire watch locally.she died in 1946 of Cancer.	SLACK, BEATRICE ANNE			2/6/1946	ST. MARY
		Info Info: Private South Wales Borderer. Grave register records a brother in Oldham.Died at Prestwich Asylum, and was buried in an unmarked grave, he is commemorated alongside 11 other soldier inmates. One of 14 soldiers buried in St Mary's Churchyard, who died between 1918 and 1921, as inmates of what was then called Prestwich Mental Hospital, formally The Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum. The Hospital had become the largest such institution in Europe by 1903, and the churchyard here has around 5,300 unmarked pauper graves of inmates.	SMITH, FREDERICK			10/8/1921	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Son of George & Elizabeth of 8 Halliwell Place, husband of Lilian Price, 22 Henry Street. Fusilier, 2/8th Bn.Lancashire Fusiliers. In 1939 it was responsible for security of the Salford area. They moved to Ripon in 1940, and then to Malton and Norton and after that to Lowestoft coast watching. Albert Studd died in The Military Hospital, Davyhulme, from complications due to Sarcoma of the fibia and lung cancer. He had been married for less than a year.	STUDD,ALBERT	A		14/08/1940	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info: Private Pioneer Corps	TAGGER,JOE		35	25/06/1943	RAINSOUGH
		Info Info:Son of John James Taylor and Clara Taylor; husband of Mary Taylor.Private,Corps of Military Police	TAYLOR, ERIC LYTHE		32	26/5/1943	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Son of Bartle and Elizabeth Thompson, of Sedgley Cottage, King's Rd. Private,7th Battalion,East Lancashire Regiment	THOMPSON, WILLIAM EDWARD		27	9/4/1917	ST. MARY
		Info Info: Pte.10th Lancashire Fusiliers. Died at Prestwich Asylum, and was buried in an unmarked grave, he is commemorated alongside 11 other soldier inmates. One of 14 soldiers buried in St Mary's Churchyard, who died between 1918 and 1921, as inmates of what was then called Prestwich Mental Hospital, formally The Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum. The Hospital had become the largest such institution in Europe by 1903, and the churchyard here has around 5,300 unmarked pauper graves of inmates.	THORNTON, CLIFFORD			4/7/1920	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Son of Samuel Threadgold and Alice Threadgold,102 Dover Street, Crumpsall. Royal Armoured Corps - Reconnaissance Corps.Ralph served in North Africa, where he was wounded and taken prisoner in November 1941. He was in 5 or 6 Prisoner Of War camps in Germany and 2 in Italy. A newspaper report from the time says that the last one in Italy was dreadful and but for the Red Cross parcels he would not have survived. One of the POW camps he was in was Stalag IV-B at Muhlberg. Ralph was repatriated in April 1945, but by 2nd June he had been admitted to hospital with head pains. He passed away at Manchester Royal Infirmary on 8th July 1945. There was an inquest into his death and Mr Jessell Rycroft, Manchester City Coroner, recorded a verdict of ‘Death Due To War Service.	THREADGOLD,RALPH	R	30	08/07/1945	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:Husband of Loisa of 9 Oak Bank Hilton Lane.Sergeant,Royal Air Force. William had served in the RFC /RAF in WWI and signed up for WWII. He was classified as fit for service "at Home only" ie UK.	WADSWORTH, WILLIAM SLEIGH		56	5/4/1942	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Son of Thomas and Mary Walsh.Private Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.His CWGC grave registration shows no known next of kin, but the headstone record shows his next of kin was Mr J Walsh of Coolaghy Moycullen, County Galway, Ireland. Tony is one of 14 soldiers buried in St Mary's Churchyard, who died between 1918 and 1921, as inmates of what was then called Prestwich Mental Hospital, formally The Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum. The Hospital had become the largest such institution in Europe by 1903, and the churchyard here has around 5,300 unmarked pauper graves of inmates. In 1921 Dr Montagu Lomax, assistant medical officer at the hospital between 1917 and 1919, exposed the inhuman, custodial and antitherapeutic practices performed there in his book, "The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor ". The implication for Tony was that he had suffered "Shell Shock", PTSD as it is today, probably suffering from symptoms such as insomnia, uncontrolable emotions, "voices" and spasms, and was admitted to this hospital rather than the Local Red Cross Hospitals (Polefield, Langley & Sedgley Halls). Tony obviously wasn't local to Prestwich, and with the records showing a lack of next of kin, that suggests he may have been presumed KIA/MIA by his family for a period of time too.	WALSH, THOMAS		35	21/5/1920	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Son of Wilfrid Whittaker and Margaret Reid Whittaker, 4 Lancaster Drive. Husband of Hilda, 63 Glebelands Road & later 25 Milton Road. With Kenneth being a schoolteacher, over 25 yrs old, he was in a ‘Reserved Occupation’. As the war progressed the need for more men increased and the gradual abolition of reserved occupations began in January 1942 when the age limit was increased by 1 year on the 1st of each month. Kenneth would therefore have become eligible for military service in the June of 1942. Kenneth Reid Whittaker died as a result of an accident at Seighford, in Staffordshire. Kenneths accident happened on Thursday 22nd April 1943 when, according to his death certificate, he was ‘’knocked off his cycle and run over by a fire tender which was in the act of reversing’’.	WHITTAKER,KENNETH REID	K R	32	22/04/1943	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:He served as an Air Mechanic 1st Class, RAF(Redcar). Leonard had spent some time in Red Barnes A.M. Hospital, Coatham prior to his death. The threat of U-boats off the North East coast saw the arrival of four Handley Page O/100 bombers on detachment from RNAS Coudekerque to Redcar in September 1917. By the time the detachment had concluded in October, 42 sorties had been flown resulting in 11 U-boats being sighted. For some reason the Commonwealth War Grave Comission record his death as 1919, but his stone states 1918. As Leonard died in England his body was returned to his next of kin and he now lies in St Mary's. Read a fictional story featuring Leonardhere.	WIGGINS, LEONARD			16/1/1919	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Son of Ernest and Annie Wild of 12 Orange Hill Road.Private, Royal Army Ordinance Corps. Died of accidental injuries (burns).	WILD,ROBERT	R	19	14/12/1920	ST. MARGARET EXT.
		Info Info:Son of John and Selina of Bent Nook. Private, 3rd Bn. King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Died during home defence duties.	WILLISON,CLIFFORD	C	31	12/04/1916	ST. MARGARET
		Info Info:Private,3rd Bn.South Wales Borderers.	WOOTTEN, SYDNEY			11/7/1919	ST. MARY
		Info Info:Son of James & Harriet of Scholes Lane. 2nd Lieutenant, 10th Bn.Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.Grave inscription reads “died from gunshot wounds received on active service in France" “I have, fought a good fight”. Given the date of Thomas's death he may have received his fatal wounds at the Battle of the Somme.	WREN, THOMAS THORPE		29	29/7/1916	ST. MARY
		Info Info: 96 (R.A.F.) Sqdn. Royal Canadian Air Force, flying Hawker Hirricanes.	WOLF,HIRAM			01/01/1942	RAINSOUGH