17th Battalion Manchester Regiment on the Somme

Inspired by interviews and notes by a member of the 2nd City Battalion of the Manchester Regiment, this site portrays the particular group of volunteer soldiers, from enlistment to their service in the Battle of the Somme. In memory of the contributor of the journal, Private Allan Arthur Bell 8055 and the Pals that served with him. Copyright Bell Family. All rights reserved. Please see acknowledgments and feel free to comment in the Guest Book or individual Posts.

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  • Home
  • About – The Steel Helmet
  • The Pals in England
    • One Recruit
    • Formation of Manchester Pals
    • Heaton Park, Manchester
      • The youngest member of 17th Battalion in France.
    • Belton Park and Larkhill
      • 9098 CSM Arthur Haymes and the First 17th Battalion Casualties
  • Early Days in France
    • Arrival and travel through France
    • Maricourt Defences – Somme
    • Specialist Training – The Bomber
    • The Cost of Trench Life
  • 1st July 1916 – Montauban
    • Preparation for the Big Push
    • Over the Top
      • A German perspective on the British advance on Montauban
    • The Defence of Montauban
    • Triangle Point
      • Victor Godfrey – Brigade Wiring Officer at Triangle Point
    • Relief and Aftermath
    • Montauban Casualties 1st-8th July 1916
  • 100 Missing men
    • Concentration Cemeteries & Battlefield Burials
    • Burials to the rear of assembly trenches
    • The Initial Advance
    • The Charge on Montauban
    • Casualties in Montauban
    • 30th Division – 21st & 89th Brigade Casualties at Montauban
    • Summary and Conclusions
  • Trones Wood
    • Trones Wood Losses
      • Wounded
    • Trones Wood Officer Fatalities
    • III Platoon Fatalities-Trones Wood
    • Stranded in Trones Wood
  • Guillemont
    • Guillemont Casualties & summer 30 July-30 Sept 1916
    • Royal Berkshire Regiment men attached to 17th Manchesters
    • 22 New Names on the Thiepval Memorial for 2021
    • Guillemont Gallery 29-31st July 1916
  • Flers
    • Casualties at Flers 11-17th October 1916
    • Private 43278 Edwin Burrows – Killed in Action 12th October 1916
  • Highlights
    • Site Visitors and Manchester Regiment Connections
  • The Cost
    • III Platoon Cost – Fatalities
    • The officers of 90th Brigade – Merchiston, St Bees, Oxford, Cheshire and beyond.
      • Captain Stanley Kenworthy
  • Acknowledgements
  • Afterwards
    • Winter 1916-17
      • The Cost – Winter 1916/17
    • Arras, Hindenburg Line – Heninel 23rd April 1917
      • A view from a Heninel Trench 23rd April 1917
      • The Cost – 23 to 30 April 1917
    • 3rd Battle of Ypres – 31st July 1917
      • The Cost – May to July 1917
    • Ypres & Polderhoek – August to December 1917
      • The Cost – August to December 1917
    • March 1918 The German Spring Offensive – St Quentin
      • My Uncle Bert – Sgt 8060 Herbert Brown
      • Manchester Hill – “Here we fight – and here we die”
      • Casualties January to March 1918. German Spring Offensive.
    • Spoil Bank, Ypres – April 1918
      • Centenary of the 17th Battalion Manchester Regiment disbandment – 30th July 1918
        • Final Casualities prior to Disbandment – May to July 1918
      • Casualties at Ypres – The last days of fighting for the 17th Battalion
    • Casualties after Disbandment
      • Awaiting Commemoration – Sgt 1785 Albert Edward Hall 6th Bttn. Died 17/04/1920
      • New Commemorations of Great War Casualties
    • A Fire Watcher on the Town Hall in the Manchester Blitz
  • GUEST BOOK
  • Honours and Medals
    • Distinguished Service Order Awards
    • Military Cross Awards
    • Distinguished Conduct Medal Awards
    • Military Medal Awards
    • Mentioned in Despatches
  • Cemeteries, Memorials, Museums and Places of Interest
    • Museums
    • Places of Interest
      • Mons, 23rd August 1914
      • Thiepval Wood
      • Hawthorn Ridge Craters, Beaumont Hamel
      • High Wood, Longueval
      • Newfoundland Memorial Park, Beaumont Hamel
      • Ocean Villas, Auchonvillers
      • Sunken Lane, Beaumont Hamel
      • Suzanne, Picardy
      • Vaux & Eclusier Vaux
      • Vimy Ridge
      • Hill 60, Zillebeke
      • Menin Road & Clapham Junction, Ypres
    • Cemeteries Index
      • A.I.F. BURIAL GROUND, FLERS
      • Chappelle British Cemetery, Holnon
      • Ramparts Cemetery, Lille Gate, Ypres
      • St Symphorien Military Cemetery, Mons
      • Beaumont-Hamel British Cemetery
      • Bernafay Wood British Cemetery, Montauban
      • Bray-sur-Somme German Cemetery
      • Cerisy-Gailly Military Cemetery, Cerisy
      • Chester Farm Cemetery, Ypres
      • Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz
      • Guillemont Road Cemetery, Guillemont
      • La Targette British Cemetery, Neuville-St. Vaast
      • Ors British Cemetery – Wilfred Owen and his comrades
      • La Targette French Cemetery, Neuville-Saint-Vaast
      • Luke Copse Cemetery, Puisieux
      • Serre Road Cemetery No 3, Serre
      • SUZANNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
      • New Irish Farm, Ypres
      • Perth Farm (China Wall), Zillebeke
      • Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial
    • Memorials
      • Footballers Battalion Memorial, Longueval
      • Sheffield Memorial Park
      • 12th Battalion Manchester Regiment Memorial, Contalmaison
      • Welsh Division Memorial, Mametz Wood
      • Queen Victoria’s Rifles Memorial, Zillebeke
      • Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial

Places of Interest

ARRAS

Vimy Ridge 090

SOMME
Hawthorn Ridge Craters, Beaumont Hamel 20

High Wood, Longueval 23

Manchester Hill

Newfoundland Memorial Park, Beaumont Hamel (40)

Ocean Villas, Auchonvillers (45)

Sunken Lane, Beaumont Hamel (60)

Suzanne, Picardy 63

Thiepval Wood

Vaux & Eclusier Vaux 80

IMG_7338YPRES / Belgium

Hill 60, Zillebeke 140

Menin Road 160

Mons

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The Steel Helmet – Journal of the 17th Manchester Regiment

  • About – The Steel Helmet
  • The Pals in England
    • One Recruit
    • Formation of Manchester Pals
    • Heaton Park, Manchester
      • The youngest member of 17th Battalion in France.
    • Belton Park and Larkhill
      • 9098 CSM Arthur Haymes and the First 17th Battalion Casualties
  • Early Days in France
    • Arrival and travel through France
    • Maricourt Defences – Somme
    • Specialist Training – The Bomber
    • The Cost of Trench Life
  • 1st July 1916 – Montauban
    • Preparation for the Big Push
    • Over the Top
      • A German perspective on the British advance on Montauban
    • The Defence of Montauban
    • Triangle Point
      • Victor Godfrey – Brigade Wiring Officer at Triangle Point
    • Relief and Aftermath
    • Montauban Casualties 1st-8th July 1916
  • 100 Missing men
    • Concentration Cemeteries & Battlefield Burials
    • Burials to the rear of assembly trenches
    • The Initial Advance
    • The Charge on Montauban
    • Casualties in Montauban
    • 30th Division – 21st & 89th Brigade Casualties at Montauban
    • Summary and Conclusions
  • Trones Wood
    • Trones Wood Losses
      • Wounded
    • Trones Wood Officer Fatalities
    • III Platoon Fatalities-Trones Wood
    • Stranded in Trones Wood
  • Guillemont
    • Guillemont Casualties & summer 30 July-30 Sept 1916
    • Royal Berkshire Regiment men attached to 17th Manchesters
    • 22 New Names on the Thiepval Memorial for 2021
    • Guillemont Gallery 29-31st July 1916
  • Flers
    • Casualties at Flers 11-17th October 1916
    • Private 43278 Edwin Burrows – Killed in Action 12th October 1916
  • Highlights
    • Site Visitors and Manchester Regiment Connections
  • The Cost
    • III Platoon Cost – Fatalities
    • The officers of 90th Brigade – Merchiston, St Bees, Oxford, Cheshire and beyond.
      • Captain Stanley Kenworthy
  • Acknowledgements
  • Afterwards
    • Winter 1916-17
      • The Cost – Winter 1916/17
    • Arras, Hindenburg Line – Heninel 23rd April 1917
      • A view from a Heninel Trench 23rd April 1917
      • The Cost – 23 to 30 April 1917
    • 3rd Battle of Ypres – 31st July 1917
      • The Cost – May to July 1917
    • Ypres & Polderhoek – August to December 1917
      • The Cost – August to December 1917
    • March 1918 The German Spring Offensive – St Quentin
      • My Uncle Bert – Sgt 8060 Herbert Brown
      • Manchester Hill – “Here we fight – and here we die”
      • Casualties January to March 1918. German Spring Offensive.
    • Spoil Bank, Ypres – April 1918
      • Centenary of the 17th Battalion Manchester Regiment disbandment – 30th July 1918
        • Final Casualities prior to Disbandment – May to July 1918
      • Casualties at Ypres – The last days of fighting for the 17th Battalion
    • Casualties after Disbandment
      • Awaiting Commemoration – Sgt 1785 Albert Edward Hall 6th Bttn. Died 17/04/1920
      • New Commemorations of Great War Casualties
    • A Fire Watcher on the Town Hall in the Manchester Blitz
  • GUEST BOOK
  • Honours and Medals
    • Distinguished Service Order Awards
    • Military Cross Awards
    • Distinguished Conduct Medal Awards
    • Military Medal Awards
    • Mentioned in Despatches
  • Cemeteries, Memorials, Museums and Places of Interest
    • Museums
    • Places of Interest
      • Mons, 23rd August 1914
      • Thiepval Wood
      • Hawthorn Ridge Craters, Beaumont Hamel
      • High Wood, Longueval
      • Newfoundland Memorial Park, Beaumont Hamel
      • Ocean Villas, Auchonvillers
      • Sunken Lane, Beaumont Hamel
      • Suzanne, Picardy
      • Vaux & Eclusier Vaux
      • Vimy Ridge
      • Hill 60, Zillebeke
      • Menin Road & Clapham Junction, Ypres
    • Cemeteries Index
      • A.I.F. BURIAL GROUND, FLERS
      • Chappelle British Cemetery, Holnon
      • Ramparts Cemetery, Lille Gate, Ypres
      • St Symphorien Military Cemetery, Mons
      • Beaumont-Hamel British Cemetery
      • Bernafay Wood British Cemetery, Montauban
      • Bray-sur-Somme German Cemetery
      • Cerisy-Gailly Military Cemetery, Cerisy
      • Chester Farm Cemetery, Ypres
      • Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz
      • Guillemont Road Cemetery, Guillemont
      • La Targette British Cemetery, Neuville-St. Vaast
      • Ors British Cemetery – Wilfred Owen and his comrades
      • La Targette French Cemetery, Neuville-Saint-Vaast
      • Luke Copse Cemetery, Puisieux
      • Serre Road Cemetery No 3, Serre
      • SUZANNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
      • New Irish Farm, Ypres
      • Perth Farm (China Wall), Zillebeke
      • Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial
    • Memorials
      • Footballers Battalion Memorial, Longueval
      • Sheffield Memorial Park
      • 12th Battalion Manchester Regiment Memorial, Contalmaison
      • Welsh Division Memorial, Mametz Wood
      • Queen Victoria’s Rifles Memorial, Zillebeke
      • Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial

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