Memorial

Manchester Tramways - WW1 Roll of Honour

Letter on the front cover

Source: Copyright David Long

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Museum of Transport, Archives, Boyle Street, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M8 8UW, England

SD 84594 00721

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Type of Memorial: Roll of honour or book of remembrance
WMR Reference Number: 100032
Description: Paper booklet printed in August 1918 containing a list of employees killed, missing, honoured, and serving as at 30th June 1918. 227 are listed as dead, compared with the 310 listed on the four bronze plaques erected at the tram depots (see WMR 10669, 10744, 25078, and 100015).
Inscription: Front page: Manchester Corporation Tramways/ (Letter to Staff from JM McElroy, General Manager) Inside 1: Roll of Honour/ Manchester Corporation Tramways./ Employees Enlisted for Active service/ to 30th June 1918/ Our Honoured Dead/ (Died on Active Service (227)./ (Names). Inside 2: Officially Reported Missing (38)/ (Names). Inside 3: Employees who have Gained/ Decorations./ (Names) Inside 4: Enlisted for Active Service (2,889)/ Traffic Section (1,820)./ (Names)

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 3116
Served: 2889
Died: 227
Information shown: Varies from list to list - but names, deployment with Corporation, and unit are common

Book

Made from: Paper

Condition: At Risk

Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 27 March 1923 Page 6 AT DUTY'S CALL. Memorials to Fallen Manchester Tramwaymen. Five tablet at various depots: Unveiled: Head Office - The Lord Mayor - 11 a.m. Hyde Road Shed - Ald. Pogson - 12 noon Hyde Road Words - Ald. Dixon - 12.30 p.m. Princess Road - Ald. Chapman - 2.30 p.m. Queen's Road - Ald. Bowie - 3.30 p.m. Alderman J. Bowes, chairman of the Tramways Committee, will preside at the unveiling ceremonies to-moorrow. 2,917 men from the department, representing 56 per cent of the total number employed, served during the war and of these 272 died on active service and 33 wre reported missing.