Regimental Life of the Month

Since 1756 hundreds of thousands of men, women and children have had life changing experiences with the Manchester Regiment or its forebears. Each month this on-line feature will tell the story of a person’s experiences with the Manchester Regiment.

We hope that anyone undertaking their own research will consider writing a small piece for this new on-line feature. If you are interested in submitting a brief biography of a man, woman or child for the ‘Regimental Life of the Month’ feature please contact the Museum’s Curator.

See previous regimental 'Life of the Month' stories.

Private William Taylor Ward (57308)

William, the son of Robert Ward and his wife Jane Elizabeth née Jackson, was born in Stockport and lived in Osborne Road. In 1918 he enrolled in the Manchester Regiment and started training at Prees in Shropshire. As part of the 2/6th Battalion he was posted to France. He was severely injured in Battle and taken prisoner. He spent the rest of the war in a prisoner of war camp at Güstrow in northern Germany. On repatriation he returned to Stockport where he worked for the Oil Well Engineering Company of Cheadle Heath, got married and raised a family. William died in 1961.

By Mr Neal Priestland

 Previous regimental 'Life of the Month' stories

Arthur John Berry	John Haney	William Buckley	Thomas Fanahan Finn
Harry Greenwood	Thomas Hanrahan	Rex King-Clark	Mike Lally
James Leach VC	Harry Morgan	George William Holmes	Michael Neville
Richard Thomas Priestley	John Henry Loftus Reade	Eric Arnold Shacklady	Sam Smith
Joseph Edmund Tyson	Issy Smith VC	Alfred Sutton	Owen Taylor
Alfred Wilkinson VC	Tom McAlister	Joseph Black	Joe Horgan
John Douglas Powell	Edmund Olive

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