The sixth city battalion had now reached full strength and the raising of a seventh had now been officially sanctioned. That meant that in just seven days, two new battalions had been filled in Manchester.

It was announced also that the men of the city battalions would be given two or three days leave over Christmas

Lord Egerton had placed 600 acres of his Tatton Hall estate at the disposal of the military for the training of the fifth and sixth battalions.

Another one hundred and forty four wounded soldiers arrived in Manchester, a third were stretcher cases, around one tenth of the wounded of the British Expeditionary Force had been treated in the city.

Two men were killed on Dickenson Street while fixing telephone wires. The two, according to reports, stepped on a coping stone which gave way crashing into the road way below. A third man was injured with crushed toes and legs.

A thirty eight year old man collapsed in the street in Newton Heath and died on his way to the Ancoats hospital, he was described as a window cleaner.

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