Lt. Col. Sir Gilbert Mackereth - Bury, UK - Out of Place Graves on Waymarking.com

A metal plaque next to the gravestone tell the story of how he came to be buried in the grounds of the museum.

Sir Gilbert Mackereth
1892 - 1962

Gilbert Mackereth born in Salford in 1892.
He was educated at Keswick Grammar School and then Manchester University.

In 1914 Mackereth Joined the 21st Battalion Royal Fusiliers, which was part of the University and Public Schools' Brigade. He travelled to France in November 1915, spending three months in the trenches east of Bethune.

In 1916 Mackereth was selected to become an officer. On completion of his training in Oxford, Mackereth joined the 17th battalion Lancashire Fusiliers in France, east of Arras During the capture of Gricourt in April 1917, Mackereth saved a patrol that had been cut off by a German machine gun post. He,was awarded the Military Cross for his actions.

In August Mackereth was seriously wounded near Cambrai anchra hospitalised in Manchester for a number of months. Mackereth returned to France in July 1918 and took command of the 17th Battalion in October, until he was released from the army in April 1919.

After the war Mackereth joined the Diplomatic Service, during which time he was knighted. He died in San Sebastian, Spain in 1962.

In 2009 the local council in San Sebastian served a notice of eviction on Sir Gilbert's grave due to unpaid taxes. He was repatriated and interred in the Gallipoli Garden on the 11th November 2011.

The Lancashire Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that saw distinguished service through many centuries and wars, including the Second Boer War both World War I and World War II, and had many different titles throughout its 280 years of existence. In 1968 the regiment was amalgamated with the other regiments of the Fusilier Brigade–the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers and the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)–to form the current Royal Regiment of Fusiliers...

The regiment became the Lancashire Fusiliers in 1881. Under the 1881 Childers Reforms each county regiment had two Militia battalions attached to it: these were found by the 7th Royal Lancashire Militia, raised in 1855 and recruited from Bury, Manchester and Salford. link

The Wellington Barracks in Bury, the regimental headquarters, used to also contain a museum. After the barracks closed the museum moved to this site on 27th June 2009. This building used to be Bury's arts and crafts centre and has a purpose built extension for the museum.

The Lancashire Fusileers are most famous for their part in the Gallipoli campaign in the First World War. Landing at Cape Helles on 25 April 1915 as part of the 86th Brigade in the 29th Division, the Fusileers suffered many casualties, six of who were awarded the Victoria Cross. This generated the famous phrase 'the six VCs before breakfast'.

The grounds of the museum have been laid out formally and called the Gallipoli Gardens.

First Name: Gilbert Last Name: Mackereth Born: 10/19/1892 Died: 01/11/1962

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