Others

Many other people served with, came in contact with or played some role in the lives of our four men during their time of service. This incomplete list covers just some of them.

2/Lt. Alfred Edward Downing:

Pte. Henry Kent saw 2/Lt. Downing just before he died and took the trouble to write a letter to his family describing the events. That letter remains in the family today.

Pte. Henry Kent (29453), 9th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.

The following people were named in the official enquiries surrounding the death of 2/Lt. Downing.

  1. Pte. George Cooper (32569), 9th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
  2. Col. Alexander Milne-Thomson, RAMC. ADMS, 50th Division.
  3. Nurse Louisa Constance Colt-Williams, French Red Cross.
  4. Capt. R.J.P. Hewetson, 9th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.

Pte. Arthur Slater:

Syd Cain was one of Arthur Slater’s lifelong friends. They joined the 9th Manchesters together on the same day and served together in Gallipoli and Egypt until the war sent them on their separate paths.

Pte. Syd Caine (2680), 1/9th Manchesters.

Sgt. Thomas William Chisholm was taken prisoner of war on May 27, 1918 at the Third Battle of the Aisne, as was Arthur Slater, and his journal paints a picture of his experience.

Sgt. Thomas William Chisholm (263049), 5th Northumberland Fusiliers.

Pte. Percy Wheldon was also taken prisoner on May 27, 1918 and Percy and Arthur became good friends during their enforced captivity remaining in contact after the war.

Pte.  Percy Wheldon (307460), 1st Sherwood Foresters.

Capt. William Weston was Arthur Slater’s acting Company Commanding Officer during the the Third Battle of the Aisne. Promoted from the ranks, he won several medals for bravery and appears to have been a  highly capable soldier.

Capt. William Weston DCM, MC and Bar, 1st Sherwood Foresters.

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 34 Officers served with the Battalion in Egypt prior and up to the landing at Gallipoli on May 9, 1915. Major RICHARD BOTTOMLEY NOWELL and Lt. JOHN BROADBENT landed the following day with the transport section, and 2/Lt. John Matley Robson remained in Egypt as Officer in Charge of the Base at Alexandria.

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

Officer Deaths in Egypt 1915

  1. Major William Henry Archbutt
  2. Surgeon Major Albert Hilton

Gallipoli 1915

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

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

NCOs & Men of the 9th Battalion Manchester Regiment:

Gallipoli Medal Winners

  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
  9. Lance-Corporal Albert Platt, MM

Senior NCOs of Gallipoli

The following men were some of the more senior non-commissioned officers of the 9th Battalion Manchester Regiment during the Gallipoli campaign.

  1. RSM John Alexander Christie, DCM
  2. Sergeant Noel Duncan Braithwaite