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Updated: October 24, 2024
He was told: 'You are a disgrace to the Manchester Regiment. He replied: 'I shall never let that be said of me, rose to climb over, and was blown to bits by a shell. Whitley carried a badly wounded man a long way under fire. Creery did splendidly." It may be added that Whitley's act was afterwards recognised by an award of the Military Cross. He became Staff Captain at Ismailia.
W.F. Creery joined the Connaught Rangers and was mentioned in dispatches. Another hero of the men's reminiscences was Captain A.H. Tinker. One night during the first month of the campaign a working party had lost itself on the moor. It was so dark that they ran great risk of straying into the enemy's lines a fate that befell a number of our men at this period in that broken country.
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