St Alkmund’s Church Memorial

St Alkmunds Memorial

    St Alkmund’s Church is at the top of Bargate, Whitchurch, next to the site of the original Whitchurch Grammar School. At the west end of the Church is a triptych form war memorial with a central panel of …

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Whitchurch Memorial

War Memorial - Whitchurch, Shropshire

  I first started visiting the Battlefields, Cemeteries and Memorials of the Western Front some fifteen years ago. Three years ago I decided to research the names on the War Memorial in Station Road, that’s all they are names, carved …

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Owen Jones

The Great War History Hub Whitchurch, shropshire - War dead missing image

Born in Llanfair-is-Gaer, Port Dinorwic, Caernarvonshire, Wales in 1897, the eldest son of Captain William and Mrs Margaret E Jones of 6 Velinheli Terrace, Port Dinorwic. Caernarvonshire, Wales. Owen was working at Lloyds Bank in Whitchurch, living in Shrewsbury when …

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John Hazledine

The Great War History Hub Whitchurch, shropshire - War dead missing image

John Turner Clough Hazledine, born in Llandudno, Wales in 1876, the third son of Sarah Grace Boevey Vaughan (formerly Hazledine) and the late John Rowland Lovell Hazledine of Burlton Hall, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. John’s brother the Rev. William Clough Hazledine was …

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