Shooting of Franz Ferdinand, Sarajevo 1914

WAR AT SEA 1914 - 1918

Roll of Honour The original is on display in the other Hall Officers from Cheadle

• Lt Col James Magnus RFA Springfield, Mill Lane • Lt Col Alan J Sykes VD MP 1/6th Cheshires South Side

• Maj Edgar Smalley 20th Manchesters Highfield • Maj Humphrey Watts 1/5th Cheshires Abney Hall

• Cpt Harold C Lings 8th Manchesters 5 Milton Cres. • Cpt James Milnes 9th Lancashire Fusiliers Bassendene • Cpt Herbert John Rose 8th Manchesters Tregenna, Cricket Field • Cpt James Smalley Indian Medical Service Langlands • Cpt A Ashton Smalley RAMC Langlands • Cpt Henry Wilson 3rd East Lancs Field Amb 16 Stockport Rd • • Lt Andrew The Rectory • Lt Arthur Ball 3rd KO (Royal Lancaster) 20 Ashfield Rd • Lt Kenneth Bean RAMC Linden Ho. The Cres. • Lt Peter Garvie RGA The Rectory Officers from Cheadle

• Lt Basil Magnus 40th Pathan Springfield, Mill Lane • Lt Cuthbert Macdona Army Transport Corps The Rectory • Lt Frederick J Milne French Red Cross Belmont • Lt Alec Milne Manchesters Belmont • Lt Hugo Pollock RFA Abney Hall • Lt Harry Taylor Indian Regt 6 Massie St • Lt H Lionel Watts 2/11th City of London Abney Hall • Lt George Westcott 2/8th Manchesters Westgate, The Crescent • Lt Thomas Wood The Rectory

• 2nd Lt John Atkinson 10th KO (Royal Lancaster) 233 Stockport Rd • 2nd Lt George Dawes 5th Border Regt 47 Gatley Rd • 2nd Lt John Leete 14th Cheshires Brook Lodge • 2nd Lt Norman Marriott Leics Regt. The Grange • 2nd Lt Thomas R Worthington 6th Manchesters 187 Stockport Rd • 2nd Lt Frank Woodall OTC 54 Rd

• Malcolm M Milne British RC (Italian Unit) Belmont • Cecil Austin Porritt Royal Welch Fusiliers Bruntwood F Company “Cheadle” on Cheadle Green 1896 F Company “Cheadle” on Cheadle Green Maj. Edgar Smalley 1914 Other Ranks on the Roll of Honour

• Total 293 Army 277 Royal Navy 13 Royal Flying Corps 3

• Regiment 74 25% • 5th Cheshires (from but includes Cheadle) 36 12% • 6th Cheshires (from Stockport) 20 7% • Manchester Regiment 51 17%

• Royal Field Artillery (RFA) 29 • • Royal Engineers (RE) 23

• Army Service Corps (ASC) 22

• Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) 13

• Lancashire Fusiliers 10

• Others 81

• These included Welsh, Scottish and Southern Regiments, Cavalry, Garrison Artillery etc.etc. 1914 - Off to the War The evolution of the Territorial Force

• 1859 Parliament passes a Bill for the formation of part-time volunteer forces.

• 1860 Cheadle raises the 26th Rifle Corps as part of the 3rd Administrative Battalion led by W. Tatton of Wythenshawe Hall and based on Altrincham.

• 1864 the headquarters moves to .

• 1880 re-organised as the 3rd Battalion Cheshire Rifle Volunteer Corps with 8 companies. Cheadle becomes ‘F’ Company.

• 1887 was designated as 3rd Volunteer Battalion Cheshire Regiment.

• 1908 the Territorial Force replaces the Volunteer Battalions and the 5th (Earl of Chester’s) Battalion the Cheshire Regiment is formed from the amalgamation of the 2nd & 3rd Volunteer Battalions.

• 1914 pre-war, Cheadle and Sale form ‘C’ Company. ‘C’ Company has 3 officers and 158 other ranks

• 1915 reduced to 4 companies, Cheadle is part of ‘A’ Company, formed from Knutsford, Cheadle and Sale. ‘A’ Company has 6 officers and 252 other ranks. Cheadle Drill Hall, Brook Rd. Training Camp, Conwy 1909 L/Cpl Joseph Goodier 1897 (2nd on the left) Sgt Joseph Goodier L/Bdr R W Bullock and Seaman R P Bullock CHEADLE & GATLEY 1914-1918

THE HOME FRONT

Cheadle and Gatley Volunteers -‘Home Guard’

V.A.D. nurses and Cheadle House Hospital

Women in munitions – Stockport and Cheadle

War efforts of Cheadle and Gatley primary schools

Handforth internment and Prisoner of War camp 1914 – 1919

CHESHIRE VOLUNTEER REGIMENT – CHEADLE & GATLEY DETACHMENT Recruitment in Gatley Cheshire Volunteer Regiment

Gatley Volunteers in the vicarage garden Lapel badge of Cheshire Volunteer Regiment Gatley Volunteers on parade with shotguns Rev John Bruster private in Cheshire Volunteer uniform Rev Bruster and Lt Lowcock guarding Sopwith 1 ½ Strutter plane in a field overnight Cheadle Volunteers marching Cheadle Volunteers with German gun CHEADLE HOUSE HOSPITAL Cheadle House military hospital

Cheadle Hospital VAD nurses and soldiers Local VAD nurses and soldiers at Cheadle House (left- Audrey Shimwell; right- Edith Bruster) Soldiers and nurses in Cheadle House garden Cheadle hospital soldiers on outing to Kinsey’s Farm, Old Hall Road, Gatley Barnes Hospital charity football team supporting military hospitals 1916 WOMEN IN MUNITIONS

Munitions workers at Georges Road factory Stockport Women munition workers’ trouser suits and “War service” badges for men workers Horwich railway works shell factory similar to Georges Road Stockport National shell filling factory at Chilwell, Notts the destination of Georges Road shells Read’s garage, Cheadle High Street, producing buckets for military diggers in WW1 Workshop at Harrison’s garage Wilmslow Road Cheadle produced shell caps in WW1 WAR EFFORTS OF CHEADLE & GATLEY PRIMARY SCHOOLS 1914 – 1918

CHEADLE PRIMARY SCHOOL - BUILT 1910

• 13/11/1914 Several Belgian children arrived at the school • 22/5/1915 Children from Cheadle Infants School sent a parcel to Cheadle Territorials of 1/5th Cheshire Regiment via Lancashire and Cheshire Comforts Fund. Comprising: “ 47packets of notepaper, envelopes and postcards, 32 packets of cigarettes, 8 pairs of socks, bootlaces, Vaseline, soap, handkerchiefs” They received a letter of thanks from the Front. • 16/11/1915 Thomas Hambles –assistant teacher, enlisted • 9/6/1916 James Bennett -1st assistant teacher, enlisted Both teachers returned to the school in February 1919 ST JAMES PRIMARY SCHOOL, GATLEY

• Sewing and knitting parties of garments for soldiers, distributed by the Red Cross • Receiving centre for fruits, flowers and gifts sent to Whitworth Street Military Hospital Manchester • 42 boxes of gingerbread, 100 Easter eggs decorated and packed in boxes made by children, some sent to Cheadle House Hospital • Artificial roses made by the school and sent to hospitals on St George’s Day • 1918 Herbs and wild fruits packed in the schoolroom, including 57lbs of blackberries sent to Reddish, 33lbs of chestnuts to Bibby & Sons, Liverpool

HANDFORTH PoW CAMP 1914 -1919 Handforth camp (print works) on River Dean Handforth Print Works – Internment & PoW camp German PoWs marching to camp from Handforth station Handforth camp - view across the works lodge

Table of numbers present at Handforth camp 1914-1919 Prisoner escapes from Handforth camp

• May 1916 –soldier and sailor escaped, recaptured at Gorton • August 1916 – 3 escaped, 2 recaptured at Bingley and 1 at Otley, Yorkshire • August 12 &13 1917 – Soldier and sailor escaped, at large for more than a month sheltered by friends? • November 1917 – 5 sailors escaped, 3 recaptured at Stalybridge, other 2 a week later at Portsmouth In memory of all those from Cheadle and Gatley who served and sacrificed at home and abroard

War Memorial, Gatley, Cheshire.

GATLEY WAR MEMORIAL 1914 - 1918, Dennis S ARNETT Gordon ASHTON William T ALMOND Douglas H BROOKS . Kenneth BROWN Frank DUNNING Peter BURROWS Douglas J CHEW Frederick FALLOWS Allan CLOUGH Charles GARLICK L E COLLINSON Kenneth COOPER William T HANKINSON Andrew G DICK Richard DICK Clifford HARDING Herbert James DIXON L E DOLBEAR James W HEWITT Jack H EASTWOOD George HOLDEN Geoffrey GODDARD Geoffrey HARRISON Victor E LUCAS Dennis HART Gordon HAMILTON Albert MINSHALL Henry HUDSON William M O JONES Leonard PRITCHARD Sidney KENDERDINE Stuart LOWE Albert POTTS Raymond MORRIS Cyril STREET Frank PEARSON David PRITCHARD Leonard TRURAN Alfred ROTHWELL B M SAYERS William TAYLOR Rodney St James SMITH George STONE Thomas WOOD Geoffrey WHITEHURST Charles D WARDLE Alan E WHITTAKER W E WILLIAMS

To the Glory of God and in memory of Gatley men who died for honour and freedom in the Great War CHEADLE WAR MEMORIAL 1914 ~ 1919

William ACTON John HUDSON Frank ADAMSON Arthur IRELAND Ronald ADAMSON Harold JONES George A BAILEY Arthur LAMB James BAILEY Alfred LEATHER Alfred BALL Herbert LEATHER Arthur BALL Edward LEE Alec J BARDSLEY Fred LEE Walter BERRY Leonard LEE Christopher BOLLARD Harold E LILES Charles BRADBURY Frank S LILES Tim BRIDDON Norman C MARRIOTT Arthur BROWN Fred MEDLICOTT Frank BUXTON Edward MERCER William CALLAN Wilfred MIDWINTER Joseph V CARR Alexander L MILNE Reginald S CARR James MARSHALL Walter CARTER Frank NEWTON Herbert P CHANTLER Frederick M PAULL Joseph CHANTLER Arthur W PERRY James H CHESTER Edwin PICKERING Alfred CHORLTON William PIMBLOTT John CLIFFORD Edward J POTTS Robert CLIFFORD William RENSHAW Thomas COOMBES Robert ROGERS Harold E CROSSFIELD Herbert James ROSE William DARBYSHIRE Leonard ROUGHTON George H DAWS Charles RUSSELL Sydney DAVIES Frederick J RUSSELL Charles DYKE Percy SAGAR Charles DYSON Ernest J SHEPPARD Harry EASTWICK William SMELLEY Arthur E EVANS Albert SMITH Sydney EVERETT Francis H SMITH Fred FINNEY William SMITHSON Philip G FINNEY Percy J SOUTHWORTH John H FOX John E STREET Horace FRANKLIN Harry SUTCLIFFE Peter GALT George V SWIFT Peter T GARVIE William S TELFORD Charles GOODWIN George H THOMAS Edward O HARROP Jack WARBURTON Ernest HARROP James F WHITWORTH George T HAWKYARD Robert WILKINSON John C HODGKINSON Geoffrey WILSON George A HOLDEN Harry W S WALL Arthur HOLT Thomas R WORTHINGTON Alfred HOOLEY Arthur WRENCH Thomas H HOOLEY Charles WRENCH Frank HORNE Fred WRENCH Albert HOUGH

To the Glory of God and in grateful remembrance of the men of the village who fell in the Great War