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John Bernard Coggins

Information received from Mike Coggins 03/03/2021 My father, John Bernard Coggins b 5 June 1899 in Blackburn, 6 Bn South Wales Borderers (Pioneers) attended an Instructors Anti-Gas course at Prees Heath between 12 Sep 1918 to the 20 September 1918. …

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Your Voice Sings Not So Soft

Your Voice Sings Not So Soft
Young people use creative and digital media to retell first hand accounts from WW1 to a contemporary audience

As part of MediaActive’s response to the WW1 Commemorations Shropshire Remembers, a team of twelve young people, working with filmmaking mentors, produced this animation based on the history of Prees Heath Common.

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For more information about the Shropshire Remembers Eyewitness project please visit www.eyewitnessww1.co.uk

Raynor Taylor – Life at Prees Heath Army Camp

A recording of Raynor Taylor describing life at Prees Heath Army Camp in 1916, although not a local resident it provides insight into training at the camp. Topics include Size of camp One legged soldier Hut accommodation and beds Stealing …

Women Police Officers

Photograph of Staffordshire policewomen in the early 1900s, courtesy of West Midlands Police Museum

Patrolling the streets of Whitchurch, Shropshire during the Great War, Emily Stephings and Isabella Hardy were amongst the first police women in the country. They say there’s something about a man in uniform. The uniformed men certainly acted as a …

Postcard to Walter Fowkes

This postcard was sent to Walter Fowkes who was the landlord at the Talbot Inn at Gretton, Northamptonshire from a soldier stationed at Prees Heath Camp. Images reproduced with permission of Roger Fowkes …

Chester Chronicle 22nd May 1915

Image reproduced with permission of Trinity Mirror plc Transcription A large number of troops came to the Prees Heath camp at the end of the week, mostly Scottish and Border Regiments, and between 5,000 and 6,000 have settled into the …

Building work

This postcard is an example of what the first soldiers at the camp could send to their friends and relatives.

Prees Heath Camp – Chester Chronicle 13th February 1915

Image reproduced with permission of Trinity Mirror plc Transcription The work at the Heath now employs nearly a thousand men, and it is expected the hutments and general arrangements will be in order for the first draft to arrive in …

Prees Heath Camp – Chester Chronicle 6th February 1915

Image reproduced with permission of Trinity Mirror plc Transcription Prees Heath Military Camp Prees Heath, close to Whitchurch, is now covered with long lines of wooden buildings which have been put up by an army of joiners. Already there are …

Prees Heath Camp – Whitchurch Herald 16th January 1915

At Prees Heath the work is, of course, progressing – as one would expect it to do, seeing that there is an army of perhaps six or seven hundred men engaged in one task or another in connection with the …

Prees Heath Camp – Cheshire Observer 12th December 1914

Image reproduced with permission of Trinity Mirror plc Transcription WANTED – EX-SOLDIERS and CIVILIANS With a knowledge of Storekeeping, are required to fill vacancies as temporary Barrack Wardens and Barrack Labourers for hutments of New Army Divisions at Kimnel Park, …

Prees Heath Camp – Cheshire Observer 5th December 1914

Image reproduced with permission of Trinity Mirror plc Transcription New Training Camp Army Authorities and Prees Heath Army officers have inspected Prees Heath, near Whitchurch, with a view to its being used as a military training camp for 15,000 men …

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