Key Dates for the 19th (Service) Battalion Manchester Pals 'B' Company Platoon No VIII
  Battalion Raised      - 2 Sept 1914 Heaton Park           - 30 Nov 1914 Grantham               - 24 April 1915 Larkhill Camp         - 7 Sept 1915 Embarkation           - 7 Nov 1915 Berles-Au-Bois      - 9 Dec 1915 Carnoy                  - 8 Jan 1916 Glatz Redoubt        - 1 July 1916 Trones Wood        - 8 July 1916 Guillemont             - 23 July 1916 Flers                      - Oct 1916    Arras                     - March 1917   Ypres                    - 31 July 1917 

Battalion merged into 16th and 17th Battalions     - 6 Feb 1918 

 
  Battalion Portrait from the Manchester City Battalions Book of Honour   List of men in portrait to left