Memorial

3rd Battalion Manchester Regiment

Overview of memorial

Source: Copyright C Anderson

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Current Location

Inside Cleethorpes Cemetery, Cleethorpes Cemetery, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England

TA 29975 08116

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Type of Memorial: Cross
WMR Reference Number: 34927
Description: Cross above a three-panelled wall with an explanatory shield in front on the ground. Whole is located on top of a grassy mound and surrounded by a garden in which most of the men commemorated on the memorial are buried.
Inscription: Centre: IN MEMORIAM/ NCO'S & MEN/ 3RD BATTALION/ THE MANCHESTER REGT/ (Names)/ WHO LOST THEIR LIVES WHILST/ SERVING THEIR COUNTRY ON / APRIL 1ST 1916. Left and right sides: (Names) Shield: IN MEMORIAM OF THE MEMORY OF THE 3RD BATTALION MANCHESTER REGT WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY ON THE MORNING OF APRIL 1ST 1916. A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT FROM THE CLEETHORPES BAPTIST CHURCH. DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY 1 COR X V 54.

Cross

Height: 2500mm

Made from: Stone

Condition: Good

Wall

Height: 850mm

Width: 640mm

Made from: Stone

Condition: Good

Carter Postcard Collection
History of the 3rd Bn. Manchester Regt., unpublished typescript in the Machester Regt. Archives