Wednesday, 7 November 2018

Bury Costal Forces & Robert Whitehead Memorial

In Whitehead Gardens on the junction od Manchester Road and Knowsley Road close to the Fusiliers Boer War Memorial.


COASTAL FORCES
VETERANS ASSOCIATION

EAST LANCASHIRE
BRANCH


ROLL OF HONOUR

ENSHRINED IN THIS TORPEDO ARE
THE NAMES OF OFFICERS AND RATINGS
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES DURING
SERVICE IN THE COASTAL FORCES
BRANCH OF THE ROYAL NAVY IN
WORLD WAR II
1935 - 45

"LET LIGHT ETERNAL SHINE UPON THEM"

THE FULL INVENTORY IS CONTAINED
IN THE "BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE"
WHICH IS ON DISPLAY IN BURY PARISH
CHURCH


A TRIBUTE TO

ROBERT WHITEHEAD
(1829 - 1905)

A MEMBER OF THE WHITEHEAD FAMILY OF BURY
HE INVENTED THE TORPEDO

HIS DAUGHTER AGATHA VON TRAPP WAS THE
GRANDMOTHER OF THE CHILDREN WHOSE
ESCAPADES WERE FEATURED IN THE FILM
"THE SOUND OF MUSIC"


All photographs by Chris Gleave

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