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An early muster of the Holmes Chapel Volunteer Training Corps (Home Guard) in WW1. Because the men are dressed in civvies not uniform it probably dates to 1914/15. the man identified with an x is Henry Reiss.

Holmes Chapel Volunteer Training Corps (Home Guard) WW1 at The Hermitage

1914

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Harold Forshaw served in the Army Service Corps during WW1

Harold Forshaw

1915

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Mrs Putin, Lady Shakerley, Irene, Rhoda Reiss, Constance Peel. The photograph is probably taken outside the WW1 hospital at Somerford

Nurses at The Hermitage

1914

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WW1 Nurses including Constance Peel, Rhoda Reiss at The Hermitage.

Nurses relaxing at The Hermitage

1915

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Frank Turner was the son of Charles and Sarah Turner who lived at Hermitage Cottage in Cranage. Frank served in the Army Ordnance Corps during WW1. His two brothers Fred and Harold also served.

Frank Turner

1915

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Detail of an early muster of the Holmes Chapel Volunteer Training Corps (Home Guard) in WW1. Because the men are dressed in civvies not uniform it probably dates to 1914/15. One of the men identified with an x is Henry Reiss.

Holmes Chapel Volunteer Training Corps (Home Guard) WW1 at the Hermitage

1914

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Arthur Moss enlisted in the Manchester Pals regiment in 1915 and survived the war. He worked at the wallpaper works before and after the war until he established the first betting shop in the village

Arthur Moss

1915

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Arthur Moss enlisted in the Manchester Pals regiment in 1915 and survived the war. He worked at the wallpaper works before and after the war until he established the first betting shop in the village. No information about the photograph or which man is Arthur Moss.

Arthur Moss

1915

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David Elks was born in May 1883 the son of Samuel and Ann in Pendlebury, Lancashire. We know that in 1891 he was living at 17 Park Street, Pendleton aged 7 and at school. In 1901 he was still in Pendleton and living at 12 Ernest Street. He was aged 17 and a worker at Plaiting Down, Paper Mill. By 1911 he had moved as a boarder to the house of Charles M Pollitt, 102 Broughton Rd, Pendleton, aged 27. His job was now described as a wallpaper stainer. Shortly after this in 1911 he moved to Holmes Chapel and he was living at Church View. The move related to the opening of the wallpaper works on Macclesfield Road which attracted a number of people from the Pendleton area. He was killed in action in France on 1st November 1918.

The Elks Family

1915

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Lived on Middlewich Road before joining the Cheshire Regiment during WW1. He was wounded at Gallipoli and was discharged in 1918 on medical grounds.After the war married and worked at the wallpaper works.

Harry Burgess

1915

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Henry Cotton the world famous golfer was born in Holmes Chapel at The Croft on Macclesfield Road in 1907. The photograph shows him with his older brother Leslie.

Henry Cotton with brother Leslie

1917

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Percy Moody lived in Macclesfield Road and served in Royal Field Artillery during WW1. After the war he married and opened a shop in Knutsford.

Percy Moody

1915

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Fred lived in Cranage and attended school there. He was the son of Charles and Sarah Turner who lived at Hermitage Cottage. During WW1 he served in the King's Liverpool Regiment.

Fred Turner

1917

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Fred Burgess lived in Middlewich Road and was called up to serve in WW1 in 1917. He became sick and spent several months in hospital before the end of the war in 1918. He survived and lived to 82.

Fred Burgess

1917

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Fred Burgess lived in Middlewich Road and was called up to serve in WW1 in 1917. He became sick and spent several months in hospital before the end of the war in 1918. He survived and lived to 82.

Fred Burgess

1917

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By1911 the family were living in Macclesfield Road and John was an apprentice blacksmith at Cranage aged 15. We don’t know when John signed up but we know that he was serving abroad In August 1915. By October 1915 he was in hospital in the UK doing well. In November 1915 he was out of hospital and home for a few days but still not fit for duty. He returned to his regiment and it was reported in March 1916 that he had been wounded and was recovering in Alexandria, Egypt. In October 1917 there were reports that he was seriously ill. The absent voters list of 1919 indicate that he was a lance corporal with the Cheshire Regiment at the end of the war but still in hospital. John had married Annie Burgess in August 1919 and he died in the Congleton area in May 1978 aged 83.

John Cecil Street

1916

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Harry Sankey lived at the old post office in the village. In 1917 he joined the Royal Navy and served in the Atlantic. He lived in Holmes Chapel all his life and died aged 92

Harry Sankey

1917

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Probably comrades from the Royal Field Artillery during WW1

Percy Moody and Comrades

1917

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He lived on Middlewich Road and joined the services towards the end of WW1. He was discharged with TB in 1919 and died in May 1925

Sydney Wakefield

1917

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William Henry Johnson joined the Sherwood Foresters and was awarded the Military Medal for conspicuous act of gallantry in February 1918. In World War II William was unfit for armed service due to wounds received in the Great War. He joined the Fire Service spending time in Liverpool fighting the fires of the Blitz. He died in 1981 aged 84.

William Henry Johnson MM 1918

1918

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