WW2 South Lancashire Burials - Manchester

[missmolly]

Hi Phill

Photos for Willow Grove Cemetery are done they will be with you in a day or two

Mo

[missmolly]

Hi Phil

Willow Grove Cemetery photos are on the way to you

Mo

[englandphil]

Hi Phil

Willow Grove Cemetery photos are on the way to you

Mo

Thanks Mo, nearly there now. 

Phil

[missmolly]

Hi Phil

Stockport and Norbury photos are on the way to you, I think that is all of them now

Mo

[englandphil]

Hi Phil

Stockport and Norbury photos are on the way to you, I think that is all of them now

Mo

Mo, I cant thank you enough,  I am away until Tuesday of next week, so will pickup my emails then

Once again, many many thanks

Phil

[Gaille]

Hi Phil.

Just letting you know I am not lost in the wilds of Rochdale Cemetery!
Dad & I have done a lot of Rochdale, but I think we may have to admit defeat on one or two of them cos despite going up & down a small plot grave by grave we just CANT locate the graves at all!

LOL cant remember if you asked me for Heywood too - but I have also done some there if so!

I have actually found several interesting gravestones I will be posting in the local boards that may be of interest to people with local connections.

I am going to collate all my photos & dads tomorrow (hopefully) so I will get them to you asap.

Gaille

[missmolly]

Hi Gaille

Just a thought, I had problems with a grave at Stockport,  it turned out that the CWGC had the wrong Ref. No

Mo

[Gaille]

Hi Mo,

The problem at Rochdale is that the map bears little resemblance to the actual plots!

I was chatting to a man the other day who lives locally & walks his dog thru the cemetery daily, he was asking what I was doing and as usual I explained, he asked who I was looking for so I showed him the list, and he told me the grave was way over the other side of the plot to where I was - even tho the grave number I was beside made it look like it was close by!

Gaille

[englandphil]

Thanks to the great help from members of Roots Chat, I am now only outstanding three photographs of headstones in Manchester for those men who served with the South Lancashire Regiment during WW2

DROYLSDEN CEMETERYKAY. ROBERT ERIC, 3656893 - Sec. I. Grave 382.
1st Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment

MANCHESTER (PHILIPS PARK) CEMETERY
SUTCLIFFE. CLIFFORD, 3663135 - Sec. E. Church. Grave 550.
South Lancashire Regiment

ROCHDALE CEMETERY
LYONS. ERNEST PATRICK, 3450235 – Square X.L. R.C. Grave 40679.
13th (2/4th Bn. The South Lancashire Regt.) Bn., Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.

Once again many thanks

Phil