Wilfred Owen's experiences with the Manchester Regiment In October 1915, the poet Wilfred Owen enlisted in the Army. He was commissioned into The Manchester Regiment in June 1916, and a year later was posted to the 2nd Battalion in France.
Women's Suffrage - The Pankhursts The Manchester Suffrage Society was one of several founded in Britain in 1867, when John Stuart Mill unsuccessfully put forward an amendment to the second Reform Bill – the amendment might have allowed women to vote.