BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS-TO 2 LIEUT JOHN HERBERT ILLINGWORTH RADCLIFFE-WEST RIDING REGIMENT-PLAYED FOOTBALL FOR STALYBRIDGE CELTIC-AND LATER MAYOR OF STALYBRIDGE

British War and Victory Medals, named to:
2 LIEUT J.H.I RADCLIFFE
John Herbert Illingworth Radcliffe was born in 1885.
He was commissioned into the West Riding Regiment on 27th March,1917.(Formerely Manchester Univerity O.T.C.) He arrived in France on 15/04/1917.Medals addressed to: Special Surgical Military Hospital,Grangethorpe, Manchester.
He was appointed Mayor of Stalybridge in 1944.
In his earlier years, he had played football for the well-known Amateur and proffesional Team of Stalybridge Celtic

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