PATRICROFT LOCOMOTIVE SHED ROLL OF HONOUR

THE GREAT WAR 1914-18

THIS TABLET IS A TOKEN OF APPRECIATION OF THE SERVICE GIVEN

BY THE 128 MEN OF THE PATRICROFT STEAM SHED

WHO FOUGHT IN PRACTICALLY ALL THEATRES OF THE WAR

AND IS IN PROUD AND IMPERISHABLE MEMORY OF THE UNDERMENTIONED MEN

WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE

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'Forget us not O Land for which we fell

May it go well with England, still go well

Keep her proud banner without blot or stain

Lest we may dream that we have died in vain'

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The Patricroft Engine Shed War Memorial was unveiled on Saturday, 21st July 1923, at 4.00pm, by E G Purser, Esq.

It is now in the care of Salford Local History Library.

Lance Corporal James Bebbington, 1/7th Lancashire Fusiliers, Service No. 1685

Enlisted Salford, Lancashire, Died of Wounds 21st July 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign.

Private Thomas Barrow, 1/5th Battalion Manchester Regiment, Service No. 1493

Born Eccles, Lancashire, Enlisted Patricroft, Died of Wounds 14th June 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign.

Private Leonard Brittain, 1/5th Battalion Manchester Regiment, Service No. 2999

Enlisted Wigan, Lancashire, Killed In Action 7th August 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign.

Private George Edward Moore, 6th Battalion Border Regiment, Service No.11548

Born Eccles, Lancashire, Killed In Action 9th August 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign.

Private William McEvoy, 2nd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment, Service No.19488

Born Oldham, Lancashire, Killed in Action 16th April 1915 Flanders, Belgium.

Private William Francis Murden, 16th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, Service No.11673

Born Ashton-Under-Lyne, Enlisted Salford, Lancashire, Killed in Action 2nd July 1916 during The Battle of the Somme

Private William Arthur Matthewson, 1/7th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, Service No. 2324

Born Liverpool, Enlisted Salford, Lancashire, Died 21st August 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign.

Private Joseph Orledge, 16th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, Service No.11853

Born Patricroft, Eccles, Enlisted Salford, Lancashire Killed in Action 2nd July 1916 during The Battle of the Somme.

Lance Corporal Albert Sheriff, 14th Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment, Service No.19244

Born Broughton, Salford, Enlisted Manchester, Died of Wounds 16th September1916, Salonika.

Private GeorgeWilliam Shepherd, 1/5th Battalion Manchester Regiment, Service No. 1526

Born Patricroft, Eccles, Enlisted Patricroft, Killed in Action 28th August 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign.

Private Henry Thomas, 1/5th Battalion Manchester Regiment, Service No. 1474

Born Worsley, Lancashire, Enlisted Patricroft, Died of Wounds 2nd June 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign.

Private John Heap Sidebotham, 18th Battalion Manchester Regiment, Service No. 43810

Born Eccles, Lancashire, Enlisted Wigan, Killed in Action 12th October 1916.

Lance Corporal William Gerrard, 11th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, Service No. 21836

Born, Eccles, Lancashire, Enlisted Salford, Killed in Action 27th April 1918, Flanders, Belgium.

Private Owen Elias Jones, 9th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Service No. 33105

Born, Bangor Carnarvonshire, Enlisted Manchester, Killed in Action 22nd July 1916.

Corporal James Watkinson DCM, 1st Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, Service No.11994

Born, Pendleton Salford, Enlisted Salford, Killed in Action 15th July 1916 during The Battle of the Somme.