William John Bryan

Cheshire Regiment

Personal Details Born: 7 August 1876 in Liverpool, Lancashire. Family: He was the third of seven children born to John Bryan, a watch finisher, and his wife Margaret. He married Isabella Armitstead on 25 January 1900. The couple had two …

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John Fowles

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 5 September 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 22 September the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the fourth of eight children born to Joseph Fowles, a farmer, and his wife Sarah. Sarah …

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Arthur Stevenson

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 6 July 1896 in Bunbury, Cheshire. Family: He was the seventh of nine surviving children born to John Stevenson, a general farm labourer, and his wife Elizabeth (nee Thelwell). He married Mary Royle in 1924 in Nantwich, …

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Charles Green

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 15 November 1892 in Tushingham, Cheshire. Family: He was the third of seven children born to John Green, a domestic coachman, and his wife Mary E. No marriage can be traced for Charles. Residence: He lived at …

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James Holbrook

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 18 April 1864 in Hanmer, Flintshire, Wales Family: He was the eldest of five children (he had a twin brother John) born to Benjamin Holbrook, a bricklayer, and his wife Ann. He married Nellie Green on 20 …

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John William Mann

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 15 July 1890 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 16 July the same year at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church. Family: He was one of six surviving children born to Thomas Mann, a labourer and his wife Mary. He …

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Jack Brownlie

Personal Details Born: John Nason Brownlie on 7 January 1890 in Gayton, Cheshire and baptised on 28 July the same year in Gayton Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. Family: He was the second of three sons born to John Brownlie, a licensed …

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John Burke

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: Not known Family: Not known Residence: In both 1917 and 1919 he was living at 3 Eaton’s Yard, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Employment: In 1917 he was a carter. Died: Not known Military Details Regiment: Labour Corps (previously Royal …

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Patrick Burke

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 1876 in Ireland, possibly Limerick. Family: He was the son of James Burke. He had two children, Patrick Charles and James. Residence: At the time of his enlistment in 1915 he was living at 4 Venables Yard, …

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William Gaughan

King's Liverpool Regiment

Personal Details Born: 1867 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of at least seven children born to John Gaughan, a licenced hawker, and his wife, Ellen. Both of his parents were born in Ireland. No marriage can be …

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William Henry Eaton

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 1882 and baptised 29 June 1883. Family: Eldest of seven children born to Alfred and Joanna Eaton. He married Lizzie Furber in 1913 in Whitchurch and together they had four children, Ellaline, Winifred, Bernard and Leonard. Residence: …

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Edwin Jackson

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 4 January 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of eight children born to Joseph Jackson, a goods porter, and his wife Emma. He married Nellie Allman in 1921 in Whitchurch and together they had …

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John William Jones

Personal Details Born: 29 March 1893 in Wrenbury, Cheshire. Family: He was the eldest of four surviving children of William Jones, a teamsman on a farm, and his wife Emily. He married Beatrice A Jukes in 1921 in Whitchurch, Shropshire …

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Alfred Jones

Personal Details Born: He was born in either 1866 or 1874 in Ellesmere, Shropshire. (The Census records show differing years of birth and due to the common name it has not proved possible to locate a definite birth record). Family: …

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Amos Jones

Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Personal Details Born: 8 February 1876 in Holywell, Flintshire, Wales. Family: He was the third child of Amos Jones, a bricklayer, and his wife Jane. He married Ada Sarah Smith on 14 November 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and together they …

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Arthur Jones

Personal Details Born: In 1871 in Tilston, near Malpas, Cheshire and baptised on 10 September the same year in St Oswald’s Parish Church, Malpas. Family: He was the eldest of six children born to Thomas Jones, a gamekeeper, and his …

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Charles Haddon Jones

Personal Details Born: 3 May 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the only child of Edward Jones, a jeweller and watch dealer, and his wife Mary. He married Florence Price in 1929 in Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales. No children can …

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George Richard Jones

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: In 1894 in Oswestry, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of two children born to Richard Jones, a domestic groom, and his wife Ellen. He married Agnes Davenport on 5 April 1915 in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, …

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Thomas Joyce

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 19 December 1891 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 8 February 1892. Family: He was the eldest of seven children born to John Nunnerley Joyce, a farmer, and his wife Annie. Education: He attended Whitchurch Grammar School from …

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William Oliver

Personal Details Born: 14 January 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the son of Mary Oliver. No marriage can be traced for William. Residence: In 1911 he was boarding on Grange Farm, Hollyhurst, Whitchurch. In 1918 his address was …

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Percy William Jopling

Personal Details Born: In 1896 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to Frederick William Jopling, a chief draughtsman, and his wife Jane Olivia. He married Mabel Winifred Gray on 3 September 1923 …

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Joseph Vaughan

Personal Details Born: 13 January 1891 in Prees, Shropshire and baptised on 22 February the same year in Prees Parish Church. Family: He was the younger of two children born to Frederick Vaughan, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Margaret. …

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Percy Charles Watson

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 31st January 1899 Family: 1901 Census shows him living with his mother and father Martha Amelia and Charles William, sisters Martha A, Maud L and Louisa and brother Charles. 1911 Census lists another brother Wallis and sister Winifred. …

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Joseph Lloyd

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 1896 in Myddle, Shropshire and baptised 31 May 1896 at Myddle Parish Church, Myddle, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of five surviving children born to John Lloyd, a groom, and his wife Elizabeth. No definite marriage …

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Patrick O’Neill

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: 1884 in Prescot, Lancashire. Family: He was the sixth of seven children born to Patrick O`Neill, a labourer, and his wife Eliza. He married Edith Davies on 7 April 1906 at Prescot Registry Office, Prescot, Lancashire. The …

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William Henry Stockton

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details Born: 29 July 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 14 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the fifth child of Benjamin Stockton, an iron moulder’s labourer, and his wife Alice. …

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Robert Owen

Royal Garrison Artillery

Personal Details Born: In 1892 in Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire. Family: He was the eldest of five children born to Robert Owen, a butcher, and his wife Frances Sarah, nee Duffy. Robert senior was previously married to Elizabeth and together …

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Alfred Owen

Lancashire Fusiliers

Personal Details Born: 25 January 1897 in Southport, Lancashire. Family: He was the second of five children born to Robert Owen, a butcher and his wife Frances Sarah, nee Duffy. He had a twin brother David. His father Robert had …

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John Frederick Wharton

Personal Details Born: 27 July 1886 in Malpas, Cheshire. Family: He was the son of Rosa Wharton; Rosa subsequently married Thomas Coffin and together they had three children. No marriage can be traced for John. Residence: In 1891 and 1901 …

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William John Roberts

Personal Details Born: c.1889 in the Oswestry area of Shropshire. Family: One of six children born to John and Elizabeth Roberts. Residence: In 1901 the family were living at Greenfield Cottages in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Ten years later the address of …

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George Henry Roberts

Personal Details Born: 12 June 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 6 September the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the fourth of five children born to Alfred Roberts, a cornfactor grocer, and his …

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James Henry Simmons

Personal Details Born: 27 April 1899 in Pitchford, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to James Simmons, a gamekeeper, and his wife Ann Elizabeth. He married Mabel Hulme in 1923 in Market Drayton and together they …

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Thomas Henry White

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: 1 March 1882 in Ightfield, Shropshire and baptised on 11 June in Ightfield Parish Church. Family: He was the eldest of six children born to Thomas Henry White, a groom, and his wife Catherine. He married Elizabeth …

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Henry Wharton

Personal Details Born: 13 December 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of nine surviving children of Henry Wharton, a bricklayer’s labourer, and his wife Mary. He married Kathleen A O’Neill in 1927 in Whitchurch; no children can …

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Robert Joseph Lewis

Personal Details Born: In 1890 in Carden, Tilston, Cheshire and baptised in Tilston Parish Church on 23 November the same year. Family: He was the second of six children born to Robert Lewis, a farm bailiff, and his wife Eliza …

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John Francis Welch

Personal Details Born: 1 November 1894 in Swinton, Lancashire. Family: He was the eldest of five children born to Anthony Welch, a general dealer, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Norah Alice Lang on 8 September 1920 in Bombay, India; …

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Richard Wilkinson

Personal Details Born: In 1875. The Census returns have various places of birth – Ridley, Cheshire; Bunbury, Cheshire. The birth was registered in Nantwich, Cheshire. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to Richard Wilkinson, an agricultural labourer, …

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Frank Edmund Kelly

Personal Details Born: 2 March 1888 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of five children born to Robert Edmund Kelly, a plumber and painter, and his wife Sarah. He married Ellen Annie Comer (known as Nellie) on 18 …

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Thomas Woodvine Jnr.

Personal Details Born: 20 June 1894 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire and baptised on 22 July 1894 at All Saints Church, Shrewsbury. Family: He was the third of five children born to Thomas Woodvine, a foreman carter on the railway, and his …

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George Orlando Woodvine

Personal Details Born: 27 March 1898 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of five children born to Thomas Woodvine, a foreman carter on the railway and his wife Anne. He married Florrie Crewe in 1923 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. …

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William Woodvine

Royal Garrison Artillery

Personal Details Born: 1888, in Atcham, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of five children born to Thomas Woodvine, a railway foreman carter and his wife Anne. He married Hetty Arnold in 1919 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. The couple had two …

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Thomas Edward Wynn

Personal Details Born: In 1877 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 7 October the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. His surname was also spelled Wynne. Family: He was the son of Ellen Wynn, a servant. He married …

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Thomas Roberts

Personal Details Born: 20 April 1894 in Moreton Saye, Market Drayton, Shropshire. Family: He was the fifth of six surviving children born to Henry Roberts, a stockman on a farm, and his wife Martha. He married Dora Vaughan in 1920 …

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John Henry Williams

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 27 January 1892 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 28 February the same year at the Unitarian Church in Highgate, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of four surviving children born to Henry and Elizabeth Williams. No marriage …

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Alfred Wright

Welsh Regiment

Personal Details Born: 15 February 1877 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 26 July 1877 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of seven children born to James Wright, a bricklayer`s labourer, and his wife Elizabeth, nee …

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Bernard Wynne

Personal Details Born: Birth registered last quarter of 1884 in Birkenhead, Cheshire. Family: Only child of William Wynne, a canal company clerk, and his wife Mary. Bernard married Ada Williams during the third quarter of 1922 and the marriage was …

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Harry Williams

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 15 July 1880 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 13 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the sixth of eight children born to James Williams, a carter, and his wife Harriet. No …

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William Thornton

King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Personal Details Born: 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the elder of two children born to William Thornton, a general labourer, and his wife Martha. No marriage can be found for him. Residence: In 1901 his family were living …

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Harry Fowles

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Residence: An address of 14 Claypit Street, Whitchurch was given for Harry on the 1919 Absent Voters` List. Further personal details not known. Military Details Regiment: Royal Engineers Rank: Sapper Service Number: WR/268817 (previously 256078) Date of Enlistment: …

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George Webster

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 17 February 1895 in Liverpool, Lancashire and baptised on 3 April the same year at All Saints Church, Stoneycroft, Lancashire. Family: Lived with father William Alfred, mother Annie and sister and brothers Hilda, Albert, Richard and Stanley. …

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Bernard Mitchell

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details Born: 8 September 1894 in Trentham, Staffordshire and baptised on 27 January 1895 in Trentham Parish Church. Family: He was the youngest of four children born to Frederick Mitchell, a groom – later a publican, and his wife …

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James Thomas

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: 26 January 1878 in Chester, Cheshire. Family: He married Martha Badrock in 1903 in Chester, Cheshire. The couple had two children, Edith Mabel and Hilda. Residence: In 1911 James, his wife and two children were living at …

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Cecil Harold Williams

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 31 August 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 19 September 1896 in St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to Richard William Williams, a baker and confectioner, and his wife …

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Kenneth William Thomas Williams

Personal Details Born: 20 March 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of three children born to Richard William Williams, a baker and confectioner and his wife Elizabeth. He married Lucy Edith Attwood in 1925 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. …

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Harry Hall

Personal Details Born: In 1896 in Whitchurch Shropshire and baptised on 9 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to Mary Hall. He married Emma Cracknell in 1916 …

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Alfred Williams

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 21 July 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 31 July the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the elder of two children born to John Williams, a general labourer, and his …

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Charles William Williams

Personal Details Born: 21 June 1897 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the younger of two children born to John Williams, a labourer, and his wife Alice. He married Dorothy Bowdler on 24 December 1925 in Malinslee, Shropshire and together …

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Frank Harry Williams

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 4 December 1885 in Whixall, Shropshire and baptised on 14 March 1886 in the Wesleyan-Methodist Chapel, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of seven children born to Charles Henry Williams, a coal merchant, and his wife …

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Henry Williams

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details Born: 25 July 1880 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 13 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of four children born to John Williams, a gardener, and his wife …

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Harold Williams

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details Born: In 1897 in Norbury, Cheshire and baptised on 30 April the same year in Marbury Parish Church. Family: He was the second of five children born to Joseph Williams, a farm labourer, and his wife Emily. He …

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John Ernest George Jones

King's Liverpool Regiment

Personal Details Born: 18 March 1900 in Tilstock, Shropshire and baptised on 15 April the same year in Tilstock Parish Church. Family: He was the fourth of nine children born to George Jones, a farm wagonner, and his wife Harriet …

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Horace William Joyce

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 18 September 1900 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of six children born to Arthur Joyce, a turret clock maker, and his wife Jessie. Arthur and Jessie divorced and Arthur died in 1911, being buried …

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Walter Dennis Joyce

Personal Details Born: 20 August 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 9 September the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the youngest of four children born to Walter Conway Joyce, a clockmaker, and his wife Edith …

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George Harold Taylor

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 19 August 1891 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of eleven children born to Herbert Taylor, a joiner, and his wife Jane. He married Annie Williams in 1917 in Birkenhead, Cheshire. The couple had six children – …

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Jesse Wilson

Royal Garrison Artillery

Personal Details Born: 8 September 1879 (1939 Register has date of birth as 28 September) in Louth, Lincolnshire and baptised 18 January 1885 at St Michael`s Parish Church, Louth. Family: He was the fourth of eleven children born to Ephraim Wilson, …

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Edwin George Wilson

East Lancashire Regiment

Personal Details Born: 1899 in West Derby, Lancashire (possible). Family: On the 1901 Census he was Edwin George Williams, said to be the nephew of David Wilson, a grocer`s porter and his wife Hannah, but by the time of the …

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George Wilson

Personal Details Born: 29 May 1887 in the Whitchurch registration district and baptised on 3 July 1887 at St. Michael`s Parish Church, Marbury, Cheshire. Family: He was the eldest of three surviving children born to George Henry Wilson, a farm …

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William Henry Windsor

Personal Details Born: 8 October 1892. Family: He married Emily Frances O`Neill in 1917 in Preston, Lancashire. The couple had two children George William and Kathleen A. Residence: In 1919 an address of 43b Newtown, Whitchurch, Shropshire was given for …

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Bernard Powell Wisdom

Welsh Regiment

Personal Details Born: 16 November 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the elder of two children born to Ernest George Wisdom, a domestic butler, and his wife Elizabeth, nee Powell. He married Elizabeth Robinson in 1929 in Wem, Shropshire. …

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Robert Buckley Witts

Personal Details Born: 13 October 1877 in Nantwich, Cheshire and baptised 6 June 1881 at St. Michael`s Parish Church, Coventry, Warwickshire. Family: He was the sixth of at least seven children born to Francis Buckley Witts, a painter, and his …

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William Henry Wyatt

Personal Details Born: 1 January 1888 and baptised in St Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch on 29 February the same year. Family: He was the third of six surviving children born to William W and Marion Wyatt. He married Nellie Thelwell …

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Wallace Bailey Welch

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 7 October 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of four children of James Welch, a baker, and his wife Eliza. He married Ada Evans on 8 November 1919 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales and together …

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James Rowles Wilkinson

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 31 October 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 20 January 1890 in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the second of eight children born to George Wilkinson, a butcher, and his wife Henrietta. He …

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John Wharton

King's Liverpool Regiment

Personal Details Born: 8 May 1878 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 29 May the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the sixth of ten children born to Thomas Wharton, a chimney sweep, and his …

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Frederick Joseph Wilkinson

Second Life Guards

Personal Details Born: 28 October 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to John W Wilkinson, a saddler and harness maker, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Olive Vera Couture in 1934 (possibly 1935 …

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Walter Wilde

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 14 March 1877 in Hodnet, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of eight children born to Robert Henry Wilde, a coachman groom, and his wife Jane. He married Gertrude Annie Embrey in 1915 in Whitchurch, Shropshire; no …

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Charles Henry Lee

Royal Army Medical Corps

Personal Details Born: 22 February 1891 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 18 March the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the second of seven children born to Richard Lee, a coach painter, and his …

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William George Prittie O’Connor

Royal Garrison Artillery

Personal Details Born: 1 July 1883 in Pattingham, Staffordshire and baptised on 2 August 1883 at Pattingham Parish Church, Staffordshire. Family:  He was the third of four children born to the Rev John Prittie O`Connor, a clerk in Holy Orders, …

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William Rowe

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the third child born to William Rowe, a labourer, and his wife Margaret. He married Ethel Mary Madeley on 5 February 1913 at St. John`s Wesleyan Chapel, Whitchurch. The couple …

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John William Thomas

Personal Details Born: 9 August 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 5 September 1894 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of six children born to John Thomas, a farm labourer, and his wife Ellen …

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Thomas William Thomas

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 1892 Family: His pension record stated that he was married. Residence: The 1919 Absent Voters` List gave an address of 17 Egerton Road, Whitchurch, Shropshire for him, but no other connection with this address can be found. …

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Richard Thomas

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 1881 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 23 December 1881 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the fourth of five children born to Morris Thomas, a labourer, and his wife Fanny. He married Dora Harding …

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Joseph Griffiths

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details Born: Not known Family: Not known Residence: In 1919 an address of 25 Worthington Street, Whitchurch, Shropshire was given for him on the Absent Voters` List. Employment: Not known Died: Not known Military Details Regiment: Royal Field Artillery …

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Samuel Griffiths

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: Not known Family: Not known Residence: In 1919 his address on the Absent Voters` List was 31 Grindley Brook, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Employment: Not known Died: Not known Military Details Regiment: Royal Engineers Rank: Sapper Service Number: 204290 …

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Ernest Albert Rolfe

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: 23 August 1881 in Ellesmere, Shropshire. Family: Third of seven children born to Samuel and Mary Ann Rolfe. On 6 September 1904 Ernest married Ellen Roberts, of Bettisfield, in Ellesmere, Shropshire. Together they had at least 3 …

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Joseph Walford

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 19 January 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 17 February the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch.   Family: According to the 1901 census Joseph Walford lived with his father George, mother Harriet and brothers …

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Francis Samuel Ward

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 25 February 1875 in Clerkenwell, London. Family: He was the nephew of William H Ward, a watch repairer and jeweller, and his wife Mary A; he had at least one sibling, Arthur J. He married Ada Elizabeth …

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Claud Somerset

Personal Details Born: In 1881 in Prees, Shropshire and baptised on 7 August 1881 in Prees Parish Church. Family: He was the third of four children of Vere Francis John Somerset, gentleman, and his wife Annette Catherine. No marriage can …

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Thomas Murray

Personal Details Born: 1 March 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 25 June the same year in the Unitarian Church of St. Saviour, Whitchurch. Family: He was the second of four children born to Thomas Murray, a fitter and …

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Jack Hughes

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details No personal details known. Military Details Regiment: Royal Field Artillery Rank: Gunner Service Number: 72396 Date of Enlistment: 6 November 1914 Date of Discharge: Not known Reason for Discharge: Not known  

Ernest Roberts

Personal Details Born: 6 March 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 29 March at St Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: Son of James and Sarah Roberts and grandson of John and Martha Prodger. In 1926 he married Lucy Purcell in …

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Charles Henry Hughes

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: Not known Family: The 1911 Census shows Arthur Fox, his wife Catherine Fox and his step son Gordon Hughes living at 1 Churton’s Yard, Whitchurch which is the address on the 1919 Absent Voters’ Register for Charles. …

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Samuel William Humphreys

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: Not known Family: He married Alice Maud Ankers in 1914 in Whitchurch, Shropshire; no children can be identified for the marriage, although Alice had previously given birth to six children – Beatrice, Alice, Archibald, Sidney, Reginald and …

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Frank Norris

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details Born: 2 February 1894 in Moreton Say, Market Drayton, Shropshire and baptised on 28 February the same year in Calverhall Parish Church, Shropshire. Family: He was the sixth of eleven surviving children born to Edward Norris, a farm …

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George Henry Oliver

Personal Details Born: 1 March 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 11 April the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the second of five surviving children born to Stephen Oliver, an iron foundry clerk, and his …

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William Parker

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: In 1885 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 15 January 1886 in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the son of Mary Parker. He married Ann Ball on 26 February 1916 at the Parish Church …

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Wilfred Harry Pemberton

Royal Horse Artillery

Personal Details Born: 19 October 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 23 December the same year in Wem Methodist Chapel. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to Henry Pemberton, a tailor, and his wife Alice. He …

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Thomas William Rogers

Royal Garrison Artillery

Personal Details Born: 20 October 1888, birth registered in Whitchurch. Family: Third of nine children born to Richard and Fanny Rogers. In late 1916 Thomas married Winifred Challoner in Whitchurch, Shropshire and together they had four children, Dorothy H, Winifred …

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Noel Jack Roles

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 30 September 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was one of seven children born to Peter Roles, a general labourer, and his wife Jane, nee Hunt. He married Annie Elizabeth Wright in April 1929 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. The …

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Thomas Lucas

Royal Garrison Artillery

Personal Details Born: 1880 in Tilstock, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the only child born to Thomas Lucas, a railway clerk, and his wife Harriet, nee Henshall. He married Elizabeth Smith on 12 December 1908 at St Mary`s Church, Stafford, …

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William John Lloyd

Highland Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 1881 in Tilstock, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of six surviving children born to Robert Lloyd, a bricklayer, and his wife Ann, nee Batho. He married Martha Whalley in September 1910 in Wolstanton, Staffordshire. They had …

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Albert Charles Little

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 8 June 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 21 July 1895 at St Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the elder of two surviving children born to Albert Little, a clerk, and his wife Gertrude. He married …

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Geoffrey Mountain Lee

Personal Details Born: 10 October 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 19 November 1899 at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of five children born to Leonard Lee, a chemist, and his wife Annie Elizabeth. He …

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Bertram Leonard Maddocks

Army Pay Corps

Personal Details Born: 12 September 1879 in Wrockwardine Wood, Shropshire, and baptised on 5 October the same year in Wrockwardine Parish Church. Family: He was the son of Joseph Maddocks, a publican, and his wife Harriett. He married Nellie Mealand …

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Harry Wagstaff

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: Bewdley, Worcester 1897 Family: He lived with his mother, Middie Wagstaff (maiden name Siviter), father, Alfred J. Wagstaff and his older brother, Frederick Horace and younger sister, Ena May. No marriage for Harry could be found. Residence: The 1901 census shows …

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George Wade

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 8 September 1889 in Halifax, Yorkshire and baptised on 12 September 1894 in St. Augustine’s Church, Halifax. Family: His father was Anthony Wade and mother was Eunice Wade, maiden name Ellis. He had six brothers and sisters, namely Thomas …

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Edward Lloyd

Cheshire Regiment

Personal Details Born: 1891 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He married Margaret Price in 1916 at Boughton Registry Office, Chester, Cheshire. The couple may have had five children Edward, John, Hannah, Edwin and Robert, but as Lloyd and Price are both common …

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George Bernard Harris

Royal Engineers

Personal Details No personal details known. Military Details Regiment: Royal Engineers (previously Cheshire Regiment) Rank: Private Service Number: 197382 (previously WR/259538 (RE) and 10271 (Cheshire)) Date of Enlistment: Not known Date of Discharge: Not known Reason for Discharge: Not known …

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George Gregory

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 9 December 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 5 January 1890 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of five children born to George Gregory, a joiner, and his wife Hannah. He married …

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John Gaughan

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 1870 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of at least seven children born to John Gaughan, a licenced hawker, and his wife Ellen. No marriage can be found for him. Residence:  In 1871 his family …

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John Edgar Young

Army Veterinary Corps

Personal Details Born: 7 August 1873 in Newhall, Cheshire. Family: He was the fourth of nine children born to William Young, a farmer, and his wife Elizabeth. He had four brothers, Thomas, William, Charles and Harold and four sisters, Elizabeth, …

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Richard Herbert Wainwright

Royal Garrison Artillery

Personal Details Born: 1876 in Whitchurch, Shropshire Family: He was the second child of Thomas and Martha Wainwright and had four brothers George, Thomas, James and Jack and one sister Martha. He married Rose Hannah Griffith in Whitchurch in 1905. The 1911 census lists …

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William John Minshall Young

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 6 April 1901 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the sixth of nine surviving children born to John Young, a bricklayer, and his wife Mary Ellen. He married Jane Reeves in 1937 in Whitchurch and together they …

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Walter Wormington

Royal Army Medical Corps

Personal Details Born: 15 October 1889 in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire and baptised on 1 December the same year in Uttoxeter. Family: He was the youngest of five children born to Robert H Wormington, a domestic gardener, and his wife Hannah. He …

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Thomas Woodhall

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: 21 January 1881 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 3 April the same year in St. Alkmund’s Church. Family: He was the youngest of seven children born to Charles Woodhall, a carpenter, and his wife Eliza. He married …

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George Frederick Woodhall

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 4 March 1880 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 24 March the same year in St. Alkmund’s Church Family: He was the second of six children born to George Woodhall, a carpenter, and his wife Mary. He married …

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Richard Williams

Manchester Regiment

Personal Details Born: In 1869 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 8 October the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the second of seven children born to James Williams, a carter, and his wife Harriett …

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John Williams

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 28 May 1873 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 27 June the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of eight children born to Elias Williams, a domestic coachman, and his wife …

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William Cartwright Whalley

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 24 January 1886 in Bronington, Flintshire, Wales and baptised on 28 February the same year in Bronington Parish Church. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to Charles Smith Whalley, a carpenter, and his wife …

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William Watkiss

North Staffordshire Regiment

Personal Details Born: 22 August 1864 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 26 August the same year in Whixall, part of the Prees Chapelry, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of three children born to Richard Watkiss, a coal miner, …

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Frederick Walford

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 12 October 1887 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and was baptised on 4 November the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the fifth of eight surviving children born to George Walford, a joiner, and …

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Ernest Tudor

Personal Details Born: 30 October 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 27 November 1889 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was one of nine children born to William Tudor, an innkeeper, and his wife Beatrice. No marriage …

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Frederick Thelwell

Personal Details Born: 8 July 1877 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 30 November the same year at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was one of nine children born to Thomas Thelwell, a labourer, and his wife Eliza. He …

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Charlie Thomas

Personal Details Born: 10 October 1897 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of six children born to John Thomas, a cattle dealer, and his wife Agnes. No marriage can be traced for Charlie. Residence: He lived at Hawthorn …

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Francis Hemmingsley Taylor

King's Liverpool Regiment

Personal Details Born: Francis was born 17 November 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 22 December the same year in the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Whitchurch. Family: He was the younger of two children born to Francis Taylor, a jeweller and …

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Robert Thomas Talbott

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: Robert was born 2 September 1900 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to Harry Talbott, a canal wharf porter, and his wife Martha. He married Elsie Shard in 1929 in Whitchurch and …

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William Sumner

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: William was born 17 February 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of nine children born to John Henry Sumner, a labourer in a milling furnace, and his wife Edith. No marriage can be confirmed for …

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William Henry Stubbs

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: William was born 1881 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 14 October 1882 in Tilstock Parish Church, Tilstock, Shropshire. Family: He was the son of Hannah Stubbs. He married Florence Griffiths on 15 June 1913 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. The …

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John Speakman

Personal Details Born: 28 February 1895 in Steel, Wem, Shropshire Family: He was the third of six children born to Joseph Speakman, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Maria. He married Doris Crewe in 1921 in Hanmer Parish Church, Flintshire, …

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Alfred Reuben Street

King's Liverpool Regiment

Personal Details Born: 20 September 1900 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fifth of seven children born to Edwin Street, a foreman platelayer, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Gertrude Hughes in 1922 in Wellington, Shropshire and together they …

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Thomas Shenton

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of five surviving children born to Philip Shenton, a factory engine driver and his wife Mary, nee Lunt. No marriage can be confirmed for Thomas. Residence: In 1901 …

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Joseph Arthur Roberts

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: During the last quarter of 1895 and baptised at St Alkmund’s Parish Church on 4 December that year. Family: Eldest of six surviving children born to Joseph and Lucy Roberts. In early 1921 he married Hilda Whitfield …

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Herbert Roberts

Grenadier Guards

Personal Details Born: 14th November 1891 in Oswestry, Shropshire. Family: Herbert was the youngest, probably of four children, born to John and Elizabeth Roberts.  In 1920 he married Ethel Brereton at Nantwich, Cheshire. They went on to have seven children …

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Thomas Frederick Powell

Personal Details Born: 13 January 1884 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 30 March the same year in Whitchurch Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. Family: He was the second of four children born to Benjamin Blyth Powell, a general labourer, and his wife …

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Harry Richardson

Royal Army Medical Corps

Personal Details Born: 5 October 1891 in Whitchurch and baptised at St Alkmund’s Parish Church 25 November that year. Family: He was the youngest of four children born to George and Mary Ellen Richardson. No definitive marriage for Harry could …

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Ernest Porter

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: In 1890 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was one of ten surviving children born to Samuel Porter, a labourer, and his wife Louisa. No marriage can be traced for him. Residence: In 1891 he lived with his …

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George John Pond

Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Personal Details Born: 1858 in Narford, Swaffham, Norfolk, and baptised on 16 April 1858 in Narford Parish Church. Family: He was the youngest of three children of George Pond, a gamekeeper, and his wife Jane. He married Martha Harriet Hopkins …

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Harry Ouseley

Manchester Regiment

Personal Details Born: In 1897 in Wem, Shropshire. Family: He was the fifth of eight children born to Henry Ouseley and his wife Betsy. He married Stella Crawley in 1927 in Long Ashton, Somerset. The couple had two children; Michael …

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Michael O’Neill

Personal Details Born: 1880 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of ten children born to Michael O`Neill, a bricklayer, and his wife Emily, nee Henshall. No marriage can be traced for Michael. Residence: In 1891 his family were …

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William Newbrook

Personal Details Born: 17 September 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of seven surviving children born to Alfred Newbrook, a labourer, and his wife Sarah Ann, nee Lea. He married Edith Newbrook in 1921 in Whitchurch, Shropshire …

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William Nelson

Personal Details Born: 29 May 1898 in Atcham, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of four children born to Edward Nelson, a coal wharf manager, and his wife Harriett Elizabeth. He married Lillian Haycocks in 1926 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. The …

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John Lea

Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Personal Details Born: 25 August 1881 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was one of nine children born to Isaiah Lea, a greengrocer, and Elizabeth Humphreys. He married Violet Mary Johnson in Atcham, Shrewsbury, Shropshire in 1913. The couple had seven …

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William Henry Millier

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 31 December 1889 in New Brompton, Kent. Family: He was the second of five children born to William E Millier, a beer retailer, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Elsie Eliza Still on 9 September 1913 and …

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Harry Meachin

Personal Details Born: 28 November 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 15 December the same year in Tilstock Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the son of Annie Meachin. He married Harriett H Ralphs in 1926 in Wem, Shropshire and …

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Alfred Hooper

Personal Details Born: In 1899 in Camberwell, Surrey. Also known as Alfred Russell (his birth name). Family: He was the younger of two children born to John and Martha Russell. John died and Martha married James Hooper, a publican. Martha …

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William George Hall

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: In 1876 in Limehouse, Middlesex. Family: He was the eldest of five children born to William Hall, a labourer, and his wife Rebecca. No marriage can be traced for William. Residence: In 1881 and 1891 he lived …

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George Fowles

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: In 1887 and baptised 4 May 1887 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was one of six children born to John Fowles, a butcher, and his wife Catherine. No marriage can be located for …

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Harry Holding

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: 7 July 1876 in Pitchford, Wem, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to Thomas Holding, a baker, and his wife Emily (the baptism record identifies her as Mary Anne). He married Sarah Ann …

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George William Everson

Personal Details Born: 16 September 1878 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 25 October the same year in St. Alkmund’s Church. Family: He was the eldest child of William Everson, an iron foundry labourer, and his wife Louisa. He married …

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Walter Evans

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: In 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised with his twin brother Charles on 2 November 1886 in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the third of six surviving children born to George Evans, a milk dealer, …

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George Henry Groom

Personal Details Born: 15 January 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 5 February 1899 at the Church of the Saviour, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to James Henry Groom, a blacksmith, and his wife Margaret …

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Thomas Harold Evans

Personal Details Born: 13 December 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. He was known as Harold. Family: He was the fifth of seven surviving children of Alfred Evans, a stone mason, and his wife Eliza. He was single in 1939; no marriage has …

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Thomas Edwards

Royal Garrison Artillery

Personal Details Born: 3 April 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 17 April 1896 in St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was one of six surviving children born to Arthur Edwards, a railway platelayer and his wife, Harriet. He …

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John Sydney Edge

Royal Fusiliers

Personal Details Born: In 1891 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and known as Sydney. Family: He was the son of Elizabeth Edge. Elizabeth married Daniel Sherbrooke, a painter and decorator, in 1900; Daniel had three children by a previous marriage. Sydney married Constance …

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John Edwards

Personal Details Born: 4 December 1883 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 19 December 1883 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was one of six surviving children born to Arthur Edwards, a railway labourer and his wife Harriet. No …

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Herbert Davies

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 16 November 1877 in Salford, Lancashire. Family: He was the eldest of five children born to William Davies, a commercial traveller, and his wife Mary. Herbert remained unmarried. Residence: In 1891 he lived with his family in …

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Alick William Armstrong

Welsh Regiment

Personal Details Born:  The 1939 Register records Alick’s date of birth as 17 Nov 1898, as does his death certificate. The birth of an Alick William Armstrong is registered at Chester during the first quarter of 1899. He was also …

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