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The Bravest Street in England: Cul-de-Sac Where 161 Men Joined Up for WWI – and 50 Gave Their Lives for Their Country

Posted by admin on Apr 4, 2014

On the eve of the First World War it was just another ordinary British street – a nondescript cul-de-sac of 60 terrace houses, home to dozens of hard-working blue-collar families.

But by November 1918, some 161 residents of Chapel Street in Altrincham had stepped up to serve their country in the trenches of the Great War. Of those 29 were killed in action while a further 20 would succumb to their injuries on their return. Such was its sacrifice that King George V called Chapel Street the ‘bravest little street in England’ for having provided so many volunteers.

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