With the help of United's museum curator Mark Wylie, the Club pays tribute to the 22 men who played for our football club and then perished in World War I, World War II or the Boer War.
Here are the list:
1. Driver 12690 Gilbert Godsmark | Army Service Corps (att. 75th Battery Royal Field Artillery) | Newton Heath 1900
2. Sergeant 11677 Arthur Beadsworth | 7th (Service) Battalion Leicestershire Regiment | Manchester United 1902-03
3. Private 34893 Thomas Clifford | 6th/7th (Service) Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers | Newton Heath 1896-97
4. Private 2289 Bernard Donaghey | 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers | Manchester United 1905-06
5. Private 2663 Alfred Griffiths | 1st Battalion Manchester Regiment | Newton Heath 1901-02
6. Private 515549 Hugh S. Kerr | 14th (City of London) Battalion (London Scottish) London Regiment | Manchester United 1904
7. Private 43594 Harry Levis | 22nd (Service) Battalion (7th City) Manchester Regiment | Manchester United 1913-14
8. Private F/1723 Oscar H.S. Linkson | 17th (Service) Battalion (1st Football) Middlesex Regiment | Manchester United 1908-13
9. Private 24744 Patrick McGuire | 17th (Service) Battalion (2nd City) Manchester Regiment | Manchester United 1910-11
10. Lieutenant Charles N. Newcombe | 7th (Service) Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry | Manchester United 1913-14
11. Private 28819 Harry Reynolds | 20th Battalion Manchester Regiment | Manchester United 1907-09
12. Private 6041 James Semple | 10th (Service) Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers | Manchester United 1908-09
13. Private 244238 John Thornley | 10th Battalion Cheshire Regiment | Manchester United 1905
14. Lance Sergeant 28427 Alexander 'Sandy' Turnbull | 8th (Service) Battalion East Surrey Regiment | Manchester United 1906-15
15. Private 50875 Thomas H. Wall | 2nd/10th Battalion Manchester Regiment | Manchester United 1908-10
16. Gunner 957763 Francis B. Carpenter | 61 (The Denbighshire Yeomanry) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery | Manchester United 1939-40
17. Pilot Officer 117256 George Curless | 625 Squadron, Royal Air Force | Manchester United 1940-44
18. Flying Officer 179037 David H. Fenner | 98 Squadron, Royal Air Force | Manchester United 1944
19. Pilot Officer 119552 George L. Gosnell |2 Squadron, Royal Air Force | Manchester United 1941-42
20. Gunner 1697582 Frederick Okoro | 2/1 Maritime Regiment, Royal Artillery | Manchester United 1936-37
21. Corporal 3660044 Hubert Redwood | South Lancashire Regiment | Manchester United 1933-43
22. Walter Spratt | Civilian | Manchester United 1915-20
Read their stories here.
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