With both the First and Second Manchester battalions now housed at Heaton Park, it had even decided to erect wooden huts in place of the canvas tents that were being used for accommodation
The men’s uniforms would arrive within 8-10 days and there was speculation that the third battalion would soon be on the move housed on the site of the old Botanical Gardens in Trafford.
The funeral took place in Rochdale of Lt. Colonel H Fishwick, a well known Lancashire historian described as the father of Rochdale council and one of the members of the first schools board in the town. He had died at the age of 79.
Three pickpockets had been arrested in Albert Square as crowds watched the arrival of the second batch of Belgian refugees. They were sent to prison for three months each.
It was reported that an Oldhamer was amongst those missing from the ships sunk earlier in the week. Louis Leonard Greenwold had joined the Shaw police force two years earlier.
There was though good news though about an Ashton man, First class petty officer Alfred Renwick, who had been a champion heavy weight wrestler in the navy, who was alive and well in Holland
It was the third time in his career that he had been on a ship that had sunk, and would be returning to his home town a few days later along side Lance Corporal Mellor, who had been wounded fighting in France, to a cordial welcome
