Biographies

Gallipoli Campaign

Miscellaneous:

Lt.-Col. Henry William Laws, CMG, DSO 8th Army Corps Mining Company

Officers of the 1/9th Battalion Manchester Regiment:

Egypt & Gallipoli

The following 35 Officers served with the Battalion in Egypt prior and up to the landing at Gallipoli on May 9, 1915.

  1. Lt. Col. Doctor Herbert Wade.
  2. Major William Henry Archbutt
  3. Major Michael Henry Connery.
  4. Surgeon Major Albert Hilton
  5. Major Richard Bottomley Nowell.
  6. Major Thomas Egbert Howorth.
  7. Capt. Frank Hamer.
  8. Capt. Harold Sugden.
  9. Capt. Thomas Albert Platt.
  10. Capt. Frank Woodhouse.
  11. Capt. George Harold O’Kell.
  12. Capt. Frederick William Kershaw.
  13. Capt. Eric Richardson.
  14. Lt. George William Handforth.
  15. Lt. Frederick Arthur Makin.
  16. Lt. Henry Chorlton Shaw.
  17. Lt. Robert Gartside Wood.
  18. Lt. Thomas Grimshaw Hyde.
  19. Lt. William Thomas Forshaw.
  20. Lt. James Alfred Parker.
  21. Lt. William Hampson Lillie.
  22. Lt. Oliver Jepson Sutton.
  23. 2/Lt. Hugh George Shatwell.
  24. 2/Lt. John Mayall Wade.
  25. 2/Lt. Harold Edward Butterworth.
  26. 2/Lt. Phillip Sidney Marsden.
  27. 2/Lt. Charles Earsham Cooke.
  28. 2/Lt. Albert Edward Stringer.
  29. 2/Lt. John Broadbent.
  30. 2/Lt. Fred Jones.
  31. 2/Lt. Allan Harrison Hudson.
  32. 2/Lt. John Matley Robson.
  33. 2/Lt. Arthur William Field Connery.
  34. 2/Lt. Walter James Ablitt.
  35. Capt. John Alfred Dearden.

Gallipoli 1915

The following Officers joined or were attached to the 1/9th Battalion Manchester Regiment while they were at Gallipoli:

  1. Major Thomas Frankish, RAMC (Att’d)
  2. Capt. Richard Percy Lewis
  3. 2/Lt. Edward Balmford
  4. Lt. Arthur Claude Vyvyan-Robinson
  5. Lt. Samuel Porter
  6. Lt. John Knowles
  7. 2/Lt. Harry Yorston Dixon
  8. Lt. Douglas Buchanan Stephenson
  9. 2/Lt. William Marsden Barratt
  10. 2/Lt. Sidney William Ruttenau
  11. 2/Lt. Harold Ingham
  12. 2/Lt. William Gilbert Greenwood
  13. 2/Lt. Percy Aspden Woodhouse
  14. 2/Lt. Harold Harrison Knight
  15. 2/Lt. Percy Ainsworth
  16. Hon. Lt. Joseph Michael Connery
  17. 2/Lt. Charles Henry Nash, RAMC (Att’d)
  18. 2/Lt. George Robert Bernard
  19. 2/Lt. George Frederick Barker
  20. 2/Lt. Arthur James Southcott
  21. 2/Lt. Laird Kirwan
  22. 2/Lt. George Greene Kelly
  23. 2/Lt. Thomas Ainsworth
  24. 2/Lt. Beltran Ford Robinson
  25. 2/Lt. William Henry Demel
  26. 2/Lt. William Neville Broadbent Bury
  27. 2/Lt. Sydney Naylor
  28. 2/Lt. Irvine Dearnaley
  29. 2/Lt. Bernard Harold Brister
  30. 2/Lt. Oscar Stockton Needham
  31. 2/Lt. Percy Parker Fielding
  32. 2/Lt. Francis Cyril Hampson
  33. 2/Lt. Frederick Beard
  34. 2/Lt. Robert Jacomb Norris Dale
  35. 2/Lt. John Reginald Tommis
  36. 2/Lt. Alfred Gray
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NCOs & Men of the 9th Battalion Manchester Regiment:

Gallipoli DCM Winners

The following men won the Distinguished Conduct Medal while serving with the 9th Battalion Manchester Regiment in the Gallipoli campaign.

    1. Lance-Corporal George James Silvester, DCM
    2. Sergeant Harry Grantham, DCM
    3. Corporal Samuel Bayley, DCM
    4. Lance-Corporal Stanley Pearson, DCM
    5. Lance-Corporal Thomas Pickford, DCM
    6. Sergeant James Greenhalgh, DCM
    7. Lance-Corporal Albert Davies, DCM
    8. Private Sam Littleford, DCM

 

Notable NCOs of Gallipoli

The following non-commissioned officers of the 9th Battalion Manchester Regiment distinguished themselves in some way during the Gallipoli campaign.

  1. RSM John Alexander Christie, DCM
  2. Lance-Corporal Albert Platt, MM
  3. Sergeant Noel Duncan Braithwaite
  4. QMS Thomas Burgess
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