War memorials, North Yorkshire
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Manchester,
William Hulme Grammar School
War memorials, North Yorkshire
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The First World War Memorial in the William Hulme Grammar School
Photo by Mike Berrell

The War Memorial for the William Hulme Grammar School in Manchester commemorates 111 Old Boys of the School who lost their lives in the First World War. A separate memorial commemorates 66 Old Boys who lost their lives in the Second World War. A page on the Manchester and Lancashire Family History Memorial Transcription website has photos of the memorials and transcriptions of the names.

One Yorkshire Regiment soldier is commemorated on the memorial.

We are extremely grateful to Mike Berrell for the photograph of this memorial.

Lance Corporal John Watson Holmes, 202185. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Arthur Edmund and Hannah M. Holmes, of "Woodcroft," Park Rd., Hale, Cheshire. Born Crewe, Cheshire. Killed 11 October 1917. Aged 20.
Born Crewe (Ches), Enlisted Manchester, Resided Whalley Range.
Buried LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY.

A brief biography of John Watson Holmes can be read on Keith Watson's "Old Hulmeians War Memorial 1914 - 1919".

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