Memorial Location:Miscellaneous
Ardwick Royal Artillery Memorial
Town War Memorial
Commemorating
War Dead
Wars Commemorated
First World War
Constructed By
Constructors Address
Trade/Occupation
Physical Description
The remains of a stone obelisk, now reduced to a wall plaque
Date Unveiled
By Whom
Original Address
Ardwick Royal Artillery H.Q.
Hyde Road,
Ardwick,
Manchester
Current Address
Army T.A. Centre,
Belle Vue Street,
Gorton,
Manchester
Who Paid For Memorial
Who's responsible
Territorial Army
Their Address
Belle Vue Street, Gorton, Manchester
Condition of Memorial
Good
War Names Died Served
&
Returned 		Easy
to
Read
Anglo-Boer
WW1
WW2
Post WW2
Rank Included
Regt/Service
General Information
 
This memorial started out as a 6 metre high stone obelisk memorial
erected outside the Royal Artillery Officer's H.Q aka the Drill Hall,
Hyde Road, Ardwick.
This Victorian building was bombed on the 12th March 1941 and
destroyed, as was the R.A. Memorial in front of it.
12 Royal Engineers were killed in this incident when they were using
the building as a billet.

Contemporary photographs courtesy of Manchester Library Archives.

The Drill Hall at the rear of the HQ was repaired and remained in use
until the 1990s.  It is now a commercial factory.

After WW2 what remained of the RA memorial was salvaged to create a
new wall mounted memorial, now displayed in Belle Vue TA Centre.
Thumbnails - Click on picture to view

Original RA Memorial 1
Original RA Memorial 2
The Drill Hall

Reduced Size Memorial
Nameplate