Remember The Somme 3 - a photo on Flickriver

            The Somme Remembered 100 years on. (Please read previous post for the history.)
Their thoughts are elsewhere.
Another shot taken in St. Ann’s Square Manchester of soldiers preparing to go to war.
The three actors in this image were representing three soldiers (young men) who went to war and never came back, they were:

On the left, 
Private John Darksen, 
2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders.
Died at the Somme on the 1st July 1916. 
Aged 28 Years.

Centre,
Sergeant A. C. Piesley, 
1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment. 
Died at the Somme on the 1st July 1916. 
Aged 26 years.

On the right,
Captain Stanley Kenworthy, 
17th Battalion Manchester Regiment. 
Died at the Somme on the 1st July 1916. 
Aged 32 years.

R.I.P.

   

Taken on: July 4, 2016

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