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• Allen, William Philip   b. April, 1848  d. November 23, 1867
  Irish Nationalist. Along with Michael Larkin and Michael O'Brien, he was executed for the killing of a policeman in Manchester, England, in the wake of the failed 1867 Fenian Rising. The three men became popularly known as the "Manchester Martyrs". Born to a Protestant father and a Catholic mother, he was educated at a Protestant school...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Blackley Cemetery and Crematorium, Blackley, Lancashire, England
  Plot: C.2711
   
• Larkin, Michael   b. 1837  d. November 23, 1867
  Irish Nationalist. Along with William Philip Allen and Michael O'Brien, he was executed for the killing of a policeman in Manchester, England, in the wake of the failed 1867 Fenian Rising. The three men became popularly known as the "Manchester Martyrs". The son of a shopkeeper, he was trained in that profession and in 1858 moved to...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Blackley Cemetery and Crematorium, Blackley, Lancashire, England
  Plot: C.2711
   
• O'Brien, Michael   b. 1837  d. November 23, 1867
  Irish Nationalist. Along with William Philip Allen and Michael Larkin, he was executed for the killing of a policeman in Manchester, England, in the wake of the failed 1867 Fenian Rising. The three men became popularly known as the "Manchester Martyrs". The son of a poor farmer, his family lost their property in 1856 and he trained as a...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Blackley Cemetery and Crematorium, Blackley, Lancashire, England
  Plot: C2711
   
• White, Jack    b. December 23, 1896  d. November 27, 1949
  World War I Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in Leeds, Yorkshire, he served as a Private in the 6th Battalion, King's Own Regiment, British Army. On March 7, 1917, while serving as a radio signal man on a pontoon during an attempt to cross on the Dialah River, Mesopotamia, he saw the two pontoons ahead of him come under heavy enemy machine-gun fire. When his own pontoon had reached midstream, with every man except himself either dead or wounded, he promptly tied a telephone wire to the forward...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Blackley Jewish Cemetery, Blackley, Lancashire, England
  Plot: Section F, Grave 341.
   

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