War Memorial, 6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, Stockport.

War Memorial, 6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, Stockport.

Location

In the Armoury, Greek St, Stockport.

Description

A elaborately engraved brass panel, with an inscription in memory of those of the 6th Battalion the Cheshire Regiment who fell in the first world war. It bears no names.

Inscription

THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT
 22
LOUISBURG MEEANEE
MARTINIQUE 1762 HYDERABAD
HAVANNAH SCINDE
SOUTH AFRICA
1900 - 1902
YPRES 1917
ALBERT 1916
ANCRE HEIGHTS
ANCRE 1916
MESSINES 1918
PILCKEM 1917

TO THE GLORY OF
GOD
AND IN HONOUR OF THE
OFFICERS, NCOS & MEN
OF THE
SIXTH BATTALION
THE
CHESHIRE REGIMENT
WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918
 MENIN ROAD
PABAUME 1916
KEMMEL
SCHERPENBERG
COURTRAI
FRANCE & FLANDERS

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