War Memorial, Old Contemptibles' Association, Stockport.

War Memorial, Old Contemptibles' Association, Stockport.

Location

In The Armoury, Greek St, Stockport.

Description

Three wooden panels, hinged, opening to show the names of members of the Stockport Branch of the Old Contemptibles Association.

The "Old Contemptibles" were soldiers who had served pre-war in the professional British Army and who became the first British soldiers to be sent into France at the beginning of WW1. They served in France and Flanders between 4th August and 22nd November 1914 and received the 1914 Star, the Old Contemptibles medal. The name came from a comment by a senior German soldier "that contemptible little army".

Inscription

Stockport Branch

OLD CONTEMPTIBLES ASSO'N



Lieut Col CROOKE MC
London Scottish

Driver J POLLARD

RASC

Pte S WARRINGTON

RAMC

J EATON Royal Scots
  Aug 4th 1914 - Nov 22nd 1914

J S CARTWRIGHT, Tpr 1st Life Gds
Died 7th Sep 1935
Major S FRANKENBURG,
 Died 7th Nov 1935
Lieu Col D C BOGER DSO,
  Died 27th Nov 1935
E FORREST, Pte Grenadier Gds
  Died 29th Dec 1937
W SCOTT,RAMC
W J JONES,Cheshire Regt
T A EDWARDS,The "KINGS" Regt
J MURRAY,Kings Own Royal Regt    
W TAYLOR,The "KINGS" Regt
H G FYTTON,RASC
S THORLEY,Cheshire Regt
J KENYON,The "KINGS" Regt
W CHATTERTON,Lincolnshire Regt
Lieut-Col SMEETH,   RAMC
J SHAWCROSS,Cheshire Regt
A OWEN, ROYAL Engineers
F DORAN,XI Hussar's
H HALL,RGA
I PYATT, ROYAL Engineers
M J FORD, "KINGS" Royal Regt
E ELLISON, Cheshire Regt
E KEEN, RFA
Sergt J WOOD, Cheshire Regt
Cap' C SHEPHARD, MBE DCM
Duke of Wellingtons Reg't


W R HURST Cheshire Rgt

C H KAVANAGH MM

East Yorkshire Rgt

T BRADBURY Cheshire Rgt

R BRERETON Cheshire Rgt

W MASON 19th Hussars

E MANNING HMS Essex

J MARTIN

Royal Dublin Fus

Carl's Cam