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7 August 1915 : L/Cpl Harold Owen
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Harold was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire in August 1888, the son of William (then 59) and Rebecca (40). He was christened that September. His parents and older siblings worked in silk weaving. Both his father and mother died in April 1891 when Harold was 3. Having much older siblings, it would appear they raised him. Twenty years later, age 23...
The Controversy of Commemoration in Ramsbottom after the First World War
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War memorials are contentious: the commissioning of large public sculptures has often divided communities, with stories of bitter discord surfacing both during the Great War and in the years that followed. Disputes about the control of war memorial committees, as well as the decisions made by them, often made local newspaper headlines. The main...