Tag: Salford, WW1
100 years ago in Salford: Eccles Pals won’t be home for Christmas as fatalities pile up
As the First World War dragged on despite the cheery belief back in Blighty that it would be over by Christmas 1914, the second festive season rolled around and the grim...
100 years ago: Salford’s 6ft 8in giant ‘supersoldier’ Thomas Frith revealed
SalfordOnline.com were delighted to receive an amazing story about a young man from Salford, Thomas Henry Frith, who not only enlisted twice in the army, both times...
100 years ago: Dogfights in the skies as Swinton Corporal recounts WW1 air battles
The Eccles Journal of November 1915 published a letter from a Swinton despatch rider on the French battlefronts who told of the incredible aerial battles in the skies...
100 years ago in Salford: Wealthy philanthropist and Ordsall cotton mill owner’s son killed by sniper
As the casualties from Salford began to mount in the carnage of the First World War, the Salford City Reporter of November 1915 reported the death of Frank Howarth,...
100 years ago in Salford: AWOL soldiers handed hard labour for daring escape
100 years ago this week two soldiers from Pendlebury were reprimanded for escaping the horrors of the First World War by assaulting police officers and hiding in a...
Watch: New Salford war memorial unveiled at Greengate Square for Armistice Day
A new granite war memorial commemorating 156 Salfordians who lost their lives in the First World War was unveiled at 11am today to co-incide with Armistice Day....
100 years ago: Heartbreaking letters from the front as Eccles Rifleman write of ‘white crosses in the pale moonlight’
Today, 11 November 2015, the city fell silent at 11am to mark Armistice Day – but 100 years ago our families were fighting for our very survival. In honour of this...
Hundreds turn out for Remembrance Sunday in Eccles
Hundreds of people gathered at the Eccles war memorial on Sunday 8 November to show their respects for local people who have fallen in conflicts over the past century...
100 years ago: Salford rugby legend Tom Williams killed in First World War
A rather sad story from the Salford City Reporter 100 years ago tells the tale of 39-year-old Tom Williams, who died in a military hospital in Alexandria, Egypt....
100 years ago in Salford: Enterprising soldier takes aim at pub to avoid war
This week we reported on a shocking court case from October 1915 of a pair of Broughton sisters hauled before magistrates charged with attacking so-called ‘white...
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