Shrove Tuesday 1915 – 17th Manchesters Recruitment March

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Shrove Tuesday 1915, the 17th Battalion Manchester Regiment were marching through their City on a recruitment march.  A year later they were sat in the trenches and mud on the Somme.

See Heaton Park, Manchester | 17th Battalion Manchester Regiment on the Somme. for 1915

Maricourt Defences – Somme | 17th Battalion Manchester Regiment on the Somme for 1916