2015 marks the Centenary of the ill fated allied invasion of Gallipoli in which almost 600,000 Allies and Turkish soldiers were killed. Included in the British Forces were the men who formed 1/6th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers. These men were drawn mainly from Bury, Heywood, Middleton, Rochdale, Todmorden and what is today Greater Manchester. It is to the memory of the men of both sides and the recognition of their sacrifice this blog and the Reading The Century events have been facilitated by the Rochdale Co-operative Members Volunteer Group.
Local Area Roll of Honour

Local Area Roll Of Honour

HEYWOOD MEN

Richard Beardsworth
Pte Kay
Joseph Lawless, Alexandria (Chatby)
John Joseph Scully, Helles Memorial


LITTLEBOROUGH MEN

Thomas Gibson, 29, Helles Memorial
Alfred Goodier, 23, Alexandria (Chatby)
William Jones, 37, PFSM
William Sutcliffe, Lancashire Landing Cemetery

MIDDLETON MEN

Clifford Atkinson, 17, Helles Memorial
Percy Beaman, 21, Helles Memorial
James Brookes,  Helles Memorial
Edwin Broxton, 19, Helles Memorial
Frank Connolly, 19, Helles Memorial
Thomas Connolly, 26, Helles Memorial
Chadwick Davies, 23, Twelve Tree Copse
Arthur Dean, 23, Redoubt Cemetery
James Dean, 30, Redoubt Cemetery
Arthur Foxhall, 24, Helles Memorial
Fred Gordon, 20, Helles Memorial
John Gosling, 18, Helles Memorial
Robert Graham, 41, Helles Memorial
Jocks Grimshaw, 22, Helles Memorial
Herbert Hamer, 25, Helles Memorial
Ernest Heap, 22, Helles Memorial
Elijah Heywood, 21, Cairo War Memorial Cemetery
John Hunt, 26, Helles Memorial
Robert Jacques, 22, Helles Memorial
Harold Lees, 23, Twelve Tree Corpse
Fred Lewis, 17, Lancashire Landing Cemetery
Alfred Liddle, 20, Helles Memorial
George Angus Macdonald, Helles Memorial
Joseph Marsden, 39, Alexandria (Chatby)
Alexander Morrow, 28, Redoubt Cemetery
Laurence Oliver, 27, Helles Memorial
James Partington, Helles Memorial
Frank Radcliffe, 39, Pieta Mill Cemetery
Thomas Ratcliffe 23, Redoubt Cemetery
William Henry Roberts 34, Helles Memorial
Harry Senior, 22, Helles Memorial
Herbert Turles, Helles Memorial
William Wellens, 27, Redoubt Cemetery
John Whitworth, 43, Netley Military Cemetery, Hampshire
George Wild, 25, Lancashire Landing Cemetery


ROCHDALE MEN

Thomas Ashurst, Helles Memorial
Fredrick Ball, Helles Memorial
James Birbeck, 19, Helles Memorial
Loughlan Black, Lancashire Landing
James Walter Boothman, 30, Lancashire Landing
Frank Bridge, 18, Lancashire Landing
John William Brierley, 20, Twelve Trees Copse
Norman Clifford Brierley, Helles Memorial
Samuel Broadbent, Alexandria (Chatby)
Samuel Brotherton, 25, Helles Memorial
James Burrows, 29, Alexandria (Chatby)
Herbert Chadwick, 27, Helles Memorial
Albert Clegg, 21, Helles Memorial
Robert Cook, 26, Helles Memorial
Ernest Dearden, 23, Helles Memorial
Joseph Donegani, 21, Helles Memorial
Samuel Duckworth, Helles Memorial
Frank Dunn, 24, Helles Memorial
Patrick English, 32, Helles Memorial
Ernest Farmer, 35, Helles Memorial
Edward Fisher, Lancashire Landing Cemetery
Arnold Fitton, 18, Helles Memorial
Thomas Guthrie, 38, Helles Memorial
Harry Hardiker, Helles Memorial
Herbert Heys, 22, Helles Memorial
Brinton Hollows, 17, Lancashire Landing Cemetery
John Hopkinson, 21, Redoubt Cemetery
Samuel Howarth, Helles Memorial
Joseph Hoyle, East Mudros Military Cemetery
James Izat, 20, Helles Memorial
Evelyn Jackson, 18, Alezander (Chatby)
Harold Jagger, 21, Helles Memorial
Robert Jeffrey, 28, Helles Memorial
Albert Edward Johnson, 44, Helles Memorial
James Knott, Pink Farm
William Langley, Twelve Tree Copse
John Lawton, 28, Helles Memorial
James Lomax, 21, Helles Memorial
William Marland, 20, Helles Memorial
Harold Mills, 20, Helles Memorial
Thomas Moran, Helles Memorial
James Mudd, 38, Redoubt Cemetery
Frank Murphy, 17, Redoubt Cemetery
John Myatt, 19, Helles Memorial
John Naylor, 20, East Mudros Military Cemetery
James Robert Ogden,  29, Redoubt Cemetery,
George Kenyon Osbaldeston, Helles Memorial
Wilfred Parry, 25, Pieta Mill Cemetery
Walter Pollard, Helles Memorial
John Pollitt, 39, Helles Memorial
William Porter, 20, Helles Memorial
Samuel James Price, Helles Memorial
Thomas Rigby, 26, Helles Memorial
Frank Riley, 20, Helles Memorial
Richard Risby, 18, Alexandria (Chatby)
William Ryle, TTCsm
Morris Sharpe, 24, Helles Memorial
Arthur Shepherd, 24, Helles Memorial
Charles Henry Shotton, 24, Helles Memorial
William Smith, Helles Memorial
Thomas Spencer, 26, Lancashire Landing Cemetery
Albert Stock, 38, Helles Memorial
John William Stockton, 29, Helles Memorial
George Edward Styles, 31, Twelve Tree Copse
Arthur Swain, 33, Helles Memorial
Charles Edward Sykes, 18, Redoubt Cemetery
Henry Hardman Taylor, 21, Lancashire Landing Cemetery
Richard Royds Taylor, 20, Helles Memorial
Walter Taylor, East Mudros Military Cemetery
Charles Edward Turner, 22, Helles Memorial
Willie Wacey, 26, Helles Memorial
James Ward, 52, Helles Memorial
Henry Webster, 23, Helles Memorial
William Whittaker, 42, Helles Memorial
William Whittaker, 25, Twelve Tree Copse
Joe Wild, Lancashire Landing Cemetery
Ralph Wildblood, 21, Helles Memorial
James Wilson, 25, Helles Memorial


Source: the majority of this information came from
Book:  The Gallipoli Oak
Authors:  Martin Purdy / Ian Dawson
Publisher:  Moonraker 2013

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