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 Rodgers

Personal Details Born: In fourth quarter of 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire, twin brother to Alice. Family: Joint youngest of five children born to Edward and Sarah Rodgers. In early 1922 Thomas married Edith Hall in Whitchurch and together they had …

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William Kennedy Robinson

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details Born: 22 August 1892 in Bromyard, Herefordshire and baptised 23 February 1893 at Castlefields Wesleyan-Methodist Chapel in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Family: Third child of the Rev William Ovington Robinson and his wife Margaret H. No marriage or children can …

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Albion Ovington Robinson

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details Born: Third quarter of 1885 in Littlehampton, Sussex and birth registered in East Preston, Sussex. Family: Eldest of four children born to the Rev. William Robinson and his wife Margaret. In 1919 he married Winifred E Ball in …

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Charles Yapp

Royal Garrison Artillery

Personal Details Born: 1889 in Clun, Shropshire and baptised on 8 September 1889 at Wentnor Parish Church, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of eight children born to Joseph Yapp, a farm labourer, and his wife Sarah. He married Kathleen …

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George Frederick Roberts

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 14 September 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: George Frederick was the 4th of seven children born to Joseph and Lucy Roberts. On 15 September 1917 George married Agnes Jackson in Whitchurch, a month before enlisting. Together the …

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Joseph Edgar Roberts

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: Joseph Edgar Roberts was born during the last quarter of 1890. He was baptised at St Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch on March 4th 1891. Family: He was the fifth and youngest child of Alfred and Mary Alice …

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Thomas Morgan

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: In 1887 in Conway, Caernarvonshire, Wales and baptised in Gyffin Parish Church, Caernarvonshire on 30 January the same year. Family: He was the son of Peter Jones, a sailor, and his wife Catherine Mary. Catherine subsequently married …

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Frank Malam

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details Born: 21 May 1891 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of six children born to Thomas Malam, a carter, and his wife Caroline. He married Mary E Williams in 1950 in Crewe, Cheshire; no children can …

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Ernest Phillips

Personal Details Born: 26 October 1884 in Gredington, Flintshire, Wales. Family: Military records for an Ernest Phillips (4147 King’s Shropshire Light Infantry) identify an address of 10 Dodington, Whitchurch at which a Phillips family were living in 1891 and 1901; …

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Joseph Purcell

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: In 1877 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised, with his sister Lucy, on 8 July the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the youngest of nine children born to William Purcell, a gardener, …

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William Reay

Personal Details Born: In 1869 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to John Reay, a general labourer, and his wife Sarah. He married Annie Thelwell on 5 March 1889 in Whitchurch and together they …

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George Henry Reynolds

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 12 August 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 29 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to Ridgway Reynolds, a labourer, and his wife …

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John Samuel Ridgway

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 6 March 1901 in Fauls, Prees, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of seven children born to William Ridgway, a farm labourer, and his wife Sarah. He married Alexandra M Banks in 1922 in Market Drayton, Shropshire …

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Richard James Simister

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: In 1871 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. (His RAF service record indicates he was born on 16 October 1877, but the civil records register his birth in 4th quarter 1871) Family: He was the second of three children born …

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William David Griffiths

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 25 December 1889 in Llanymynech, Shropshire. Family: He was the fifth of six children born to Edward Griffiths, a bricklayer, and his wife Louisa. He married Agnes Groom in 1914 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and together they had …

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Alfred Haycocks

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details Born: 28 January 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fifth of nine children born to Thomas Henry Haycocks, a general labourer, and his wife Mary Elizabeth. He married Doris Palin in 1916 in Whitchurch and together …

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William Hayward

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details Born: 17 October 1888 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to William Hayward, a groom, and his wife Mary. He married Edith Annie Elliot on 30 October 1910 in St. Mary’s on …

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Herbert Thomas Henshall

Royal Garrison Artillery

Personal Details Born: In 1881 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He married Emily Allen in 1904 in Chorlton, Lancashire and together they had one child, William. Residence: In 1911 he was living at 24 Dane Road, Sale, Cheshire; in 1914 he …

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John Henshaw

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 1 December 1860 in Tilstock, Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 30 December the same year in Tilstock Parish Church. His family name was Henshall. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to John Henshall, an agricultural …

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Harold Clifford Hesketh

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 28 April 1902 in Prees, Shropshire. Family: He was the son of Emily Hesketh who later married Josiah Huxley. Emily and Josiah had at least one other child. He married Sylvia Leila Harbourne on 23 June 1925 …

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Charles Thomas Heycocks

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 7 October 1882 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 27 October the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. He was also known by the name Haycocks. Family: He was the third of six children born to …

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John Horton

Royal Garrison Artillery

Personal Details Born: 21 April 1897 in Tilstock, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to Arthur Horton, a bricklayer, and his wife  Mary Hannah. He married Mary Elizabeth May Giles in 1936 in Wallasey, Cheshire and …

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John William Howell

Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Personal Details Born: 18 February 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fifth of six children born to George Howell, a house painter, and his wife Sarah. He married Ethel Campbell on 27 September 1926 in St. Paul’s Church, …

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Josiah Huxley

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: In 1869 in Prees, Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 31 October the same year in Prees Parish Church. Family: He was the second son of Elizabeth Huxley. He married Emily Hurlston Hesketh in 1908 in Whitchurch, Shropshire …

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Frederick Maddocks

Royal Fusiliers

Personal Details Born: 3 January 1864 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 9 March in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the seventh of eight children born to Thomas Maddocks, a gardener, and his wife Emma. He married …

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John Hassall Maddocks

Personal Details Born: 24 July 1876 in Bangor, Flintshire, Wales and baptised on 27 August the same year in Worthenbury Parish Church, Flintshire. Family: He was the second of nine children born to Samuel Redropp Maddocks, a farmer, and his …

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Benjamin Matthews

Personal Details Born: 1 August 1892 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 9 September the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to John Matthews, a coachman, and his wife …

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Joseph Mellor

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 2 August 1889 in Bickley, Cheshire and baptised on 22 September 1889 at St. Oswald’s Church, Malpas, Cheshire. Family: He was the third of seven children born to Thomas Mellor, a gardener’s labourer, and his wife Ann. …

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John Noble Morgan

Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)

Personal Details Born: 3 September 1877 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fifth of eight surviving children born to William Morgan, a railway engineman, and his wife Annie. He married Mary Elizabeth Turner on 18 April 1901 in Whitchurch …

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John Willie Haycocks

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 25 March 1901 in Bronington, Flintshire, Wales and was baptised on 21 July the same year in Bronington Parish Church. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to Lloyd John Haycocks, a clay miner, and …

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George Jackson

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 5 March 1898 in Bronington, Flintshire, Wales and baptised on 10 April the same year in Bronington Parish Church. Family: He was the second of seven children born to William George Jackson, a farmer, and his wife …

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William Oswald Jackson

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 23 June 1886 in Hinstock, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to William Jackson, a farm labourer, and his wife Mary. He married Minnie Elizabeth Thelwell in 1943 in Whitchurch, Shropshire; no children …

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Clement Henry James

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 18 January 1880 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 4 March the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of six children born to George Giles James, a tailor, and his wife …

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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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William George Griffiths

Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Personal Details Born: 1 July 1898 in Broughall, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of seven children born to George Griffiths, a bricklayer, and his wife Mary Jane. He married Sarah Elizabeth Allman in 1925 in Oswestry and together they …

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Arthur Sherbrooke

Personal Details Born: 11 July 1880 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to Daniel Sherbrooke, a house painter, and his wife Caroline. He married Annie Maria Rogers on 18 November 1902 at Atcham registry …

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Joseph Robert Hares

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 18 July 1894 in Prees, Shropshire and was baptised on 20 August the same year in Prees Parish Church. Family: He was the second of five children born to Thomas James Hares, a farmer, and his wife …

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William Stephen Oliver

Personal Details Born: 6 January 1897 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of five children born to Stephen Oliver, a draughtsman, and his wife Martha. He married Mary A Hallam in 1926 in Crich, Derbyshire. The couple had …

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Arthur Edwin Taylor

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: 31 May 1876 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 14 June 1876 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the sixth of nine children born to Charles Taylor, a grocer, and his wife Catherine. He married …

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Samuel Stubbs

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details Born: 12 August 1885 in Nantwich, Cheshire. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to Samuel Stubbs, a bricklayer, and his wife Rhoda, nee Hawkins. He married Harriet Humpreys in 1909 in Chester, Cheshire. The couple …

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John Alfred Hinde

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 2 October 1891 in Tilstock, Shropshire and baptised 8 November the same year at Tilstock Church (Note the 1939 register has his year of birth as 1893) He was known as Alfred, John Alfred and Alfred John. …

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Horace James Groome

Personal Details Born: 21 July 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 9 August 1889 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third child born to William Groom, a blacksmith, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Eva M …

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Jack Edge

Personal Details Born: 15 January 1892 in Marbury, Cheshire and baptised 1 May the same year in Marbury Parish Church. He was also known as Jack Edwards. Family: He was the second of eight children born to John Edge, a …

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Wilfred Edge

Personal Details Born: 4 March 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to Samuel Edge, a labourer, and his wife Charlotte. He married Linda Jones in 1922 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales; children for this …

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Henry Allman Green

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 16 November 1875 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 12 December the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the third of seven children born to Charles Green, a carpenter and joiner, and his wife …

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Benjamin Francis Griffiths

Personal Details Born: 17 April 1883 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 25 May the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the third of four children born to Robert Griffiths, a bricklayer, and his wife Mary Ann. …

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Frederick Moore

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: 29 September 1872 in Prees, Shropshire. He was also known as Frederic Moores. Family: He was the grandson of Sarah Moore. He married Florence Gribbin on 19 October 1901 in Prestwich, Lancashire and together they had four …

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Joseph Alfred Wilson

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details Born: 31 December 1892 in Rugby, Warwickshire and baptised on 30 January 1893 in the Parish Church of Newbold-on-Avon, Warwickshire. Family: He was the son of Richard Thomas Wilson, a labourer, and his wife Sarah Ellen but was …

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John Andrew Perry

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details Born: 18 July 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to James Perry, a lodging house keeper, and his wife Mary. He married Edna Hollingworth on 23 December 1933 in the Parish …

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Thomas Arthur Powell

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 5 May 1887 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 19 June the same year in the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of three surviving children born to Thomas Powell, a plasterer, and his …

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Charles Samuel Powell

Personal Details Born: 9 April 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 3 May the same year in the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Whitchurch. Family: He was the youngest of three surviving children born to Thomas Powell, a plasterer, and his …

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John James Price

Royal Fusiliers

Personal Details Born: 14 July 1894 in Halghton, Hanmer, Flintshire, Wales and baptised on 16 September the same year in Hanmer Parish Church. Family: He was the younger of two children born to William Price, a joiner, and his wife …

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Reginald Porter

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 11 July 1891 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 7 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of six surviving children born to George Porter, a railway worker, and his …

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John Prince

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: In 1897 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of six surviving children born to John Prince, a general labourer, and his wife Elizabeth. No marriage can be traced for John. Residence: In 1901 he lived …

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Leonard Walter Purcell

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 20 October 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 9 February 1896 in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the third of six children born to Thomas John Hill Purcell, a tobacconist, hairdresser and newsagent, and …

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Thomas Henry Purcell

Personal Details Born: 3 July 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 9 September the same year in St. Mary’s Church, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of six children born to Thomas John Hill Purcell, a tobacconist, hairdresser …

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William Segrove Price

Personal Details Born: 20 September 1890 in Bronington, Flintshire, Wales and baptised on 19 October the same year in Hanmer Parish Church. Family: He was the elder of two children born to William Price, a joiner, and his wife Emily, …

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Thomas Prince

Personal Details Born: 18 November 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the sixth of eight children born to Henry Prince, a bricklayer, and his wife Ann. He married Miriam Joynson in 1924 in Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire and together …

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Frank Clayton

Royal Fusiliers

Personal Details Born: 19 September 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: Only son of Thomas and Ann Clayton. In 1931 Frank married Hilda A Heatley in Whitchurch. They had one daughter, Margaret, born in 1932 in Whitchurch. Residence: In 1901 Frank …

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Rupert James Eccleston

Personal Details Born: 5 September 1892 in Whitchurch, Shropshire.  Family: Youngest of eight children born to Joseph & Ellen Eccleston. Rupert married Elizabeth H Lucas in 1921 at Whitchurch. The couple had two sons; Rupert Joseph Lucas Eccleston who was …

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Joseph Thomas Edge

Personal Details Born: 6 October 1879 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 12 November the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the sixth of eight surviving children of Joseph Edge, a general labourer, and his wife Sarah. …

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George Henry Edge

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 18 January 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 1 March the same year in the United Reformed Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the only child of George Edge, a builder, and his wife Emily. He married …

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William Pritchard

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 22 September 1878 in Prees, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of four surviving children born to William Pritchard, a farm labourer, and his wife Anne, nee Arrowsmith. He married Mary Elizabeth Thomas on 15 September 1903 …

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Percy Ridgway Reynolds

Personal Details Born: 11 March 1885 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: Eldest of five children born to Ridgway and Mary Ann Reynolds.  Percy married Annie J Hughes in the last quarter of 1911 and together they had seven children –  Thomas …

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Moses Stanworth

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: 8 May 1883 in Wellington, Shropshire and baptised 27 June 1883 at St. George`s Parish Church, Wellington.  Family:  He was the only son of John Stanworth, an iron worker and his wife Mary Jane, nee Rosson. His …

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William Henry Steele

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 5 June 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 22 June the same year at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch.  Family: He was the sixth of seven surviving children born to George Steele, a blacksmith, and his wife …

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Arthur William Simpson

Personal Details Born:  2 November 1883 in Forden, Montgomeryshire. Family: He was the eldest of four surviving children born to Joshua Eldridge Simpson, a coachman, and his wife Ellen. He married Isobel Olive Smith on 23 July 1907 in Minety …

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William Slawson

Personal Details Born: 10 August 1880 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 20 August the same year at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of eight children born to Moses Slawson, a horse breaker, and his wife …

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Thomas Henry Stickland

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 30 May 1878 in Weymouth, Dorset. Family: He was the fourth of nine children born to John Stickland, a groom, and his wife Mary, nee Laver. He married Margaret Elizabeth Sarah Louisa Hawkins on 6 August 1900 …

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Gordon Edwin Suker

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: In 1897 in Whitchurch, Shropshire.  Family: He was the younger of two sons born to John Suker, a general labourer, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Hilda E.Smith in 1921 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. The couple had two …

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Arthur John Suker

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details Born: In 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 7 June the same year at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch.  Family: He was the elder of two sons born to John Suker, a general labourer, and his wife Elizabeth. …

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Charles Lloyd Suker

Personal Details Born: In 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 4 October the same year at St. Alkmund`s Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the fifth of ten surviving children born to Edward Suker, a cattle dealer, and his wife Elizabeth, …

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Herbert Suker

Cheshire Regiment

Personal Details Born: 3 August 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised in St. Alkmund`s Parish Church on 21 August the same year. Family: He was the third of ten surviving children born to Edward Suker, a cattle dealer, and his …

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Josiah Ernest Ridgway

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 7 April 1878 in Whitchurch, Shropshire.  Family: He was the youngest of five sons born to Josiah Ridgway, a clockmaker, and Ann his wife. In 1912 Josiah married Ada Brown in Whitchurch and the following year their …

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Robert Percy Edwards

Royal Army Medical Corps

Personal Details Born: 6 October 1888 in Nantwich, Cheshire. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to Robert David Edwards, a grocer, and his wife Emily. He married Jessie Maud Mary Puttick in 1924 in Reading, Berkshire and …

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Thomas Henry Elsley

Personal Details Born: In 1897 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of five children born to Thomas Elsley, a bricklayer, and his wife Sarah Ann. He was unmarried. Residence: In 1901 his family were living in Wrexham Road, …

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John Ernest Ellison

Personal Details Born: 17 July 1887 in Ightfield, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of five children born to John Ellison, a bricklayer, and his wife Jane. He married Mary Jones in 1915 in Ellesmere, Shropshire and together they …

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Thomas Edwards

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 15 November 1897 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of six children born to James Edwards, a joiner, and his wife Mary Ann. He married Florence Muriel Richards in 1920 in Whitchurch and together they …

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John Edwards

Personal Details Born: In 1887 in Oswestry, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of nine children born to Evan Edwards, a brick works foreman, and his wife Sarah. No marriage can be traced for John. Residence: In 1901 the family were …

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Walter Ellis

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 1 September 1883 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 5 October the same year in St. Alkmund’s Church. Family: He was the second of six children born to James Ellis, a carpenter and joiner, and his wife …

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Sydney Evans

Personal Details Born: 18 February 1899 in Burleydam, Cheshire. He was also known as Sidney. Family: He was the eldest of at least four children of William Evans, a farm waggoner, and his wife Pamela. He married Hannah Elson in …

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William Evans

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: In 1878 in Burleydam, Cheshire. Family: He was the fifth of six children born to Peter Evans, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Ann. He married Pamela Felton in 1898 in Market Drayton, Shropshire and together they …

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James Henry Evans

Personal Details Born: 6 April 1878 in Hollyhurst, near Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 26 May the same year in St. Michael’s Parish Church, Marbury, Cheshire. Family: He was the second of eight children born to Stephen Charles Evans, a rural …

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Thomas Richard Evans

Personal Details Born: 27 April 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 8 May the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the youngest of eight children born to Stephen Charles Evans, a rural postman, and his …

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Albert Foster

Personal Details Born: 20 December 1879 in Bradford, Yorkshire and baptised on 22 February 1880 in Manningham Parish Church, Yorkshire. Family: He was the youngest of eight children born to William Foster, an excavator, and his wife Mary Ann. He …

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Charles William Jones

Personal Details Born: 9 November 1875 according to 1939 register but probably 9 Nov 1874 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Baptised 28 March 1875 at St Alkmund’s Church, Whitchurch. Family: Charles was the son of William and Ann Jones and brother of …

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Edward Barrow Jones

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details Born: In 1882 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 9 August of the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the elder of two children born to Barrow Jones, a wine merchant, and his …

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George Hall

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 31 July 1875 in Oakengates, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of five children of George Hall, a stone breaker, and his wife Mary. He also had two step siblings from his mother’s first marriage. George married Martha …

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Richard Glassey

Cheshire Regiment

Personal Details Born: 11 June 1889 in Black Park, Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 25 July the same year at St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the seventh of nine children born to William Glassey, a farm cattle man, …

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Thomas Glassey

Cheshire Regiment

Personal Details Born: 29 April 1888 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 3 June the same year in Marbury Parish Church, Cheshire. Family: He was the sixth of nine children born to William Glassey, a farm cattle man, and his …

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John Gibbons

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 5 April 1869 in Malpas, Cheshire. Family: He was the eldest of eight children born to Stephen Gibbons, a blacksmith, and his wife Catherine. He married Sarah Ann Hammond on 21 October 1897 at St. George’s Church, …

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William Gaughan

Manchester Regiment

Personal Details Born: June 1876 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of six children born to Patrick Gaughan, a pedlar, and his wife Ellen Elizabeth Helen. No marriage can be traced for William. Residence:   In 1881 he …

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John Gardner

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: 22 March 1876 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of four children born to Thomas Gardner, a stud groom, and his wife Annie. He married Alice Mildred Owens on 17 November 1907 in St. Philemon’s …

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Benjamin Minshall Young

Personal Details Born: 30 December 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: His mother and father were John and Mary Ellen Young and he had six brothers and sisters Nellie, James, William, Irene, Doris and Gwendoline. He married Florence Benting in 1915 …

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George Reeves

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: In the last quarter of 1878 in Droxford, Hampshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to George and Charlotte Reeves. George married Winifred Ainsworth in 1906 in Wem, Shropshire registration area. The couple went …

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Clifford Pennell Kirkby

Personal Details Born: 29 July 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of six children born to Charles Pennell Kirkby, a master tailor, and his wife Sarah Ann, nee Connerley. He married Hester Catherine Winter on 4 March …

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Cecil John Newbrook

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 16 February 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to John Newbrook, a fishmonger, and his wife Ellen. He married Edith Annie Mildred Millington in 1921 in Whitchurch. The couple had …

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Ernest Edward Newbrook

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 18 March 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of five children born to Edward Newbrook, a labourer, and his wife Catherine, nee Salmon. Ernest was a bachelor. Residence: In 1901 his family were living …

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Frank Oulton

Personal Details Born: 6 June 1893 in Preston, Lancashire. Family: He was the youngest of five children born to Thomas Nuttall Oulton, a farmer, and his wife Mary, nee Sheen. No definite marriage can be located for Frank. Residence:  In …

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Ernest Ouseley

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: 30 April 1880 in Fauls, Lower Heath, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of seven children born to George Ouseley, a bricklayer`s labourer, and his wife Sarah. He married Eva Penk in 1902 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. They …

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Thomas Sadler

Army Veterinary Corps

Personal Details Born: 13 November 1881 in Marbury, Cheshire. Family: He was the eldest of nine children born to Thomas Sadler, a farmer, and his wife Sarah, nee Lodmore. He married Sarah Boote in 1905. She died in 1922 and …

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John William Shackleton

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 27 December 1875 in Halifax, Yorkshire. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to William  Shackleton, a bricklayer, and his wife Ada, nee Clay. He married Annie Grice in 1912 at the Wesleyan Chapel, Whitchurch, …

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William Henry Corfield

Manchester Regiment

Personal Details Born:  24 January 1900 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of seven children born to William H H Corfield, a bricklayer, and his wife Mary Ann. He married Edna Coyne in 1926 in Wem, Shropshire, and …

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Wilfred Jarman

Personal Details Born:  28 August 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 11 September that year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the seventh of eight children born to Samuel Jarman, a cabinet maker, and his wife Martha. …

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Charles Jackson

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born:  In 1876 or 1877 in Malpas, Cheshire and baptised on 8 April 1877 in St Oswald’s Church, Malpas. Family: He was the son of Jane Jackson. He married Mary Elizabeth Jones on 9 September 1915 in Oswestry, …

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John William Evison

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 28 December 1900 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the younger of two children born to John Evison, a builder’s carter, and his wife Clara Evison. He married Ivy M Matthews in 1934 in Pontypridd, Glamorganshire; no …

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Benjamin Piercy

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: In 1873 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales. Family: He was the fourth of seven children born to George Piercy, a rail traffic foreman, and his wife Ann J. He married Florence Emily Salter in 1893 in Chester and …

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Henry Barratt Pidduck

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: 3 November 1894 in Sale, Cheshire. Family: He was the eldest of six children born to James Cresswell Pidduck, a cattle food agent and paper merchant, and his wife Polly. He married Elma Helen between 1921 and …

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William Thomas Phillips

Personal Details Born: 11 May 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 10 December the same year in St. Alkmund’s Church. Family: He was the third of ten children born to John Phillips, a general labourer, and his wife Annie. …

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Wilfred George Phillips

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 26 August 1889 in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to George Phillips, a head gardener, and his wife Annie. He married Emily Eaton in Whitchurch, Shropshire in 1930; we cannot …

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John Abraham Wilfred Perry

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 3 July 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the only child of William Perry, a haulier, and his wife Annie. He married Ann Mary Blyth in 1920; no children can be located for this marriage. Residence: …

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Robert Rollo Pearce

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 20 August 1885 (this is the date on the civil birth record; the 1939 Register records 2 January 1886) in Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland and was baptised there on 14 February 1886. Family: He was the eldest …

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Frederick Pearce

Personal Details Born: 7 January 1888 in Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland and baptised 12 February the same year in Berwick upon Tweed. Family: He was the second of four children born to William Funnell Pearce, a postmaster, and his wife …

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Thomas Peake

Personal Details Born: 28 December 1874 in Burleydam, Cheshire and baptised on 31 January 1875 in Burleydam Parish Church. Family: He was the sixth of eight children born to Richard Peake, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Sarah, He married …

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Tom Hutchings

Royal Garrison Artillery

Personal Details Born: 3 January 1881 in Kilrush, Clare, Ireland. Family: The 1881 and 1891 Irish census records were destroyed in WW1, so research has been unable to identify his parents. He married Frances Ann McCarthy in 1907 in Pembrokeshire, Wales. …

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Frank Hunt

Personal Details Born: In 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 13 April 1893 at St. Oswald’s Church, Malpas, Cheshire. Family: He was the second of four children born to William Hunt, a groom, and his second wife Rachel, nee …

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Robert Arthur Hughes

King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Personal Details Born:  In 1897 in Rhosllanerchrugog, Denbighshire, Wales. Family: He was the youngest of four children born to Thomas Hughes, a watchmaker, and his wife Jane. No marriage can be traced for Robert. Residence: In 1901, he was living …

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Thomas Llewellyn Hughes

Manchester Regiment

Personal Details Born:  27 September 1888 in Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to Thomas Hughes, a watchmaker, and his wife Jane, nee Griffiths. No marriage can be traced for Thomas. Residence: In 1901, …

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Thomas Hughes

Cheshire Regiment

Personal Details Born:  27 February 1900 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of seven children to Thomas Hughes, a carter to the urban district council, and his wife Charlotte, nee Gill. He married Cecilia A Rycroft in 1920 …

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James Hughes

Personal Details Born:  7 January 1892 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest, with his twin brother John, of eight children born to George Hughes, a shoemaker, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Lily Maria Edith Rundle on 24 …

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Alfred Hollands

Personal Details Born:  27 January 1881 in Prees, Shropshire and baptised on 27 February at St. Chad’s, Prees. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to Thomas Hollands, a shoemaker, and his wife Harriet. He married Alice Crewe …

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Arthur Palin

Cheshire Regiment

Personal Details Born: 23 March 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 17 April the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the eldest of two children born to Lizzie Palin (his brother John died in 1904 …

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Edwin Pace

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 11 June 1884 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 21 July the same year in St. Alkmund’s Church. Family: He was the youngest of four children born to Richard Pace, a gardener, and his wife Mary. He …

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Frank Murray

Personal Details Born: 4 April 1897 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the seventh of nine children born to James Murray, a smith and fitter, and his wife Sarah Ann. He married Elizabeth Foster in 1920 in Nantwich, Cheshire; we …

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Charles George Murden

Personal Details Born: 7 May 1891 in Islington, London and baptised on 4 October the same year in St. Michael’s Church, Islington. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to Alfred, a porter, and his wife  Annie Mary. …

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Walter Mottram

Personal Details Born: In 1882 in Catteralls Lane, Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 3 March the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the third of four children born to George Mottram, a railway platelayer, and his wife …

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Reginald Mottram

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 19 September 1890 in Ash, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of three children born to Thomas Mottram, a gravel getter, and his wife Mary. He married Ada Brown in 1913 in Whitchurch and together they …

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George Mottram

Personal Details Born: 23 August 1892 in Ash, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to Thomas Mottram, a gravel getter, and his wife Mary. He married Ethel C Charles in 1917 in Whitchurch; we cannot …

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Charles Greville Jackson

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 23 August 1887 in Hinstock, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of six children born to William Jackson, a farm labourer, and his wife Mary. The probate record indicates probate to Mary Jackson (widow) but a definite …

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John Evans

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: October 1876 in Platt Lane, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of six surviving children born to William Evans, a canal boatman, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Sarah Ann Sparrow on 14 September 1892 in …

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Ernest William Evans

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 29 July 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 11 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the sixth of seven children born to George Evans, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Mary …

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Edwin Evans

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 14 April 1875 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 16 April the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the eldest of seven children born to George Evans, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Mary …

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George Edwin Elsley

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 31 October 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest child of William Elsley, a joiner, and his wife Edith Elizabeth. No marriage can be traced for George. Residence: In 1901 he lived at 5 Sherrymill Hill, …

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James Downward

Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Personal Details Born: In October 1879 in Bronington, Flintshire, Wales and baptised 18 July 1880 in Bronington Parish Church. Family: He was the son of William Downward, a labourer, and his wife Emma. He married Margaret Davies on 2 December …

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Thomas Henry Done

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: In 1878 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the son of Mary Done (Mary married George Allman in 1882 in Whitchurch). No marriage can be traced for Thomas. Residence: In 1881 he lived in Grindley Brook, Whitchurch …

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Herbert Dodd

Personal Details Born: In 1888 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 21 June the same year in the Congregational Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the fifth of eight children born to George Dodd, a builder, and his wife Mary Jane. …

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Harold Little

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: In 1891 in Little Clifton, Cockermouth, Cumberland. Family: He was the third of four children born to Walter Little, a joiner, and his wife Sarah Jane. He married Elsie M Massey on 10 October 1917 in St. …

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George Herbert Lewis

Personal Details Born: 15 March 1896 in Wellington, Shropshire and baptised at home on 26 March 1896. There is a baptism recorded for him at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Hadley. Family: He was the eldest of nine children born to …

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John Lucas

Royal Horse Artillery

Personal Details Born: 5 October 1897 in Bridgnorth, Shropshire and baptised 15 October the same year at St. Leonard`s Parish Church, Bridgnorth. Family: He was the youngest of 4 children born to John Lucas, a police sergeant, and his wife …

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Edwin Love

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 17 June 1886 in Sunninghill, Berkshire. Family: He was the sixth of seven children born to Robert Love, a gardener, and his wife Mary, nee Cordrey. He married Amelia Francis in 1914 in Chertsey, Surrey. No children …

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Frank Lloyd

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 2 October 1885 in Market Drayton, Shropshire and baptised on 25 October 1885 in Little Drayton Parish Church, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of five children born to Jabez Lloyd, a shoemaker, and his wife Prudence, nee …

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Charles Lievesley

Personal Details Born: 1 October 1883 in Malpas, Cheshire and baptised 17 October the same year at St. Oswald`s Parish Church, Malpas. Family: He was the youngest of four children born to John Lievesley, a farmer, and his wife Martha, …

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Isaiah Lea

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: In 1872 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 6 April 1873 at St Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the son of Isaiah Lea, a greengrocer, and Elizabeth Humphreys. He married Annie Jones in 1905 in Whitchurch. On …

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Hugh Brett Langford

Personal Details Born: 29 December 1884 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 23 January 1885 at St Alkmund`s Parish Church. Family: He was the third of six children born to Joseph Langford, a general labourer, and his wife Eliza. He married Fanny …

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Bertram Langford

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: In 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 31 May the same year in St. Alkmund`s Church. He was known as Bertie. Family: He was the son of Mary Jane Langford, but was brought up by Joseph and Eliza …

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George Gaughan

Personal Details Born: In 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: George was one of ten children born to Patrick Gaughan, a pedlar, and his wife Elizabeth (Ellen) nee Hughes. He married Bertha Cox, Quarter 4 1910 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and together …

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Harold James Philip Martin

Army Pay Corps

Personal Details Born: 22 June 1892 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the elder of two children born to Albert John Martin, a rate collector, and his wife Eleanor. He married Winifred Howarth in 1917 in Birkenhead, Cheshire and together …

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Joseph Henry Jones

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 3 August 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eighth of ten children born to George Jones, a farm labourer, and his first wife Mary. Mary died in 1901 and George married again to Martha Oliver …

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Reginald Edwin Jones

Personal Details Born: 4 July 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 29 July the same year at St. Alkmund’s Church Whitchurch. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to William Edwin Jones, a painter and decorator, and …

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Thomas Harold Ffoulkes Jones

Personal Details Born: 10 July 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 1 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s Church Whitchurch. Family: He was the second of seven children born to Llewellyn Ffoulkes Jones, a plumber and gas fitter, and …

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William Jones

Personal Details Born: 20 January 1886 in Wellington, Shropshire. Family: He married Ellen Bates in 1906 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and together they had five children – William Richard, Peter, Harriett E, Hilda and Mary J. Residence: In 1911 he lived …

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Walter Jones

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: In 1896 in Tushingham, Cheshire, near Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the sixth of ten children born to George Jones, a farm labourer, and his first wife Mary. Mary died in 1901 and George married again to …

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Edward Jones

King's Liverpool Regiment

Personal Details Born: 16 July 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to Edward Jones, a grocer, and his wife Mary. He married Lilian M Taylor in 1926 in Whitchurch. We believe there were children …

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George Jones

Personal Details Born: In 1875 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 26 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s parish Church. Family: He was the eldest of five children born to Robert Jones, a boilermaker, and his wife Sarah. He married …

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Frederick Stanley Jones

Personal Details Born: In 1900 in Bangor-on-Dee, Flintshire and known as Stanley throughout his life. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to Robert Jones, a domestic gardener, and his wife Hannah. No marriage can be conclusively confirmed …

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Solomon Morris

Personal Details Born: 9 December 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 19 January 1887 in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the youngest of six children born to Henry and Eliza Jane Morris. He married Elizabeth A Wheeldon …

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Rev. Andrew Umphray Moffatt

Personal Details Born: 26 August 1881 in Brunthill, Walls, Shetland Islands, Scotland. Family: He was the eldest of two children born to John and Jane Moffatt. He also had a younger half sister. He married Barbara Agnes Bishop Calderhead in 1907 …

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Rowland McIlwaine

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: 9 November 1891 in Drumgavlin, Co Down, Ireland. Family: He was the youngest of four children of John Alexander McIlwaine, a domestic servant, and his wife Marianne. It is possible that he had more siblings; we cannot …

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John Thomas Matthews

Personal Details Born: 11 August 1877 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. and baptised on 3 February 1878 in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the eldest of two children born to Henry George Matthews, a coal porter, and his wife Mary. …

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Thomas Mannion

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: In 1879 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of eight children born to Patrick Mannion, an agricultural labourer, and his wife May. No marriage can be traced for Thomas. Residence: He lived at 1 Pepper Street, …

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John Mannion

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: In 1877 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of eight children born to Patrick Mannion, an agricultural labourer, and his wife May. No marriage can be traced for John. Residence: He lived at 1 Pepper …

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Vincent Moseley

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 26 August 1881 in Worcester, Worcestershire. Family: He was the second of five children born to Vincent Moseley, a boot repairer, and his wife Anne. He also had four half siblings from his mother’s first marriage. He …

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John Harold Higgins

London Regiment

Personal Details Born:  In 1892 in St. Martin’s, near Oswestry, Shropshire and baptised on 26 December at St. Martin’s Parish Church. Family: He was the second of nine children born to Thomas Higgins, a farmer and milk seller, and his …

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Frederick Adams

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born:  16 June 1876 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 16 July the same year at Christ Church, Tilstock, Shropshire. Family: He was the fifth of nine children of William Adams, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Elizabeth. …

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John Thomas Malam

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born:  27 September 1880 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 7 October the same year in Whitchurch Methodist church. Family: He was the second of six children born to Thomas Malam, a bricklayer’s labourer, and his wife Caroline. He …

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William Morris John

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born:  21 December 1871 in Bronington, Flintshire, Wales and baptised 25 February 1872 in Hanmer parish church. Family: He was the second of four children born to William John, a police constable, and his wife Rachel. No marriage …

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Harold Edwin Davies

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 9 July 1892 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of seven children born to Edwin Davies, a clothier, and his wife Lucy Emma. He married Emily Christina Bradbury in 1919 in Whitchurch and together they …

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Fred Davies

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 29 October 1875 in Audlem, Cheshire. Family: He was the eldest of eight children born to Joseph Davies, a domestic groom, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Ada Spencer on 27 December 1898 at Wrenbury Parish Church, …

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John Edward Pickering

Army Pay Corps

Personal Details Born: 13 September 1868 and baptised on 21 October the same year in Acton Parish Church. Family: He was the eldest of two children born to John Pickering, a tailor, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Elizabeth Faulkner …

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George Edward Porter

Cheshire Regiment

Personal Details Born: 28 March 1887 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 5 June the same year in St. Alkmund’s parish church. Family: He was the second of three children born to George Porter, a farmer, and his wife Sarah. He …

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Jack Crewe

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 17 March 1892 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 13 April the same year at St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was one of eleven children born to Richard Crewe, a bricklayer’s labourer, and his wife Mary …

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William Pover

Personal Details Born: 1863 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the son of Adam Pover, a labourer, and his wife Jane. He married Lucy Pickin on 25 October 1893 at Garston Parish Church, Lancaster, Lancashire and together they had six …

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Samuel Price

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details Born: 20 December 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of five children born to Samuel Price, a labourer, and his wife Frances. He married Gertrude Davies in 1920 in Whitchurch and together they had a …

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Thomas Albert Eaton

Personal Details Born:  16 July 1899 in Iscoyd, Flintshire, Wales and baptised 12 August 1899 in Hanmer parish church. Family: He was the son of Albert John Eaton, a plumber, and his wife Mary. He married Norah Glancey on 12 …

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Percy Enoch Eaton

Royal Army Medical Corps

Personal Details Born:  15 February 1888 in Shifnal, Shropshire. Family: Third of six children born to Thomas and Agnes Eaton. Married Mary Ethel Swindell at Victoria Street Congregational Church, Derby, in 1923. Residence: At the time of the 1891 census …

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Albert Edge

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born:  3 February 1889 and baptised 6 March at St Alkmund’s Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the fifth of six children born to Edward and Ellen Edge. In 1915 he married Phoebe Ashley in Whitchurch and together they …

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George Percy Simon

Second Life Guards

Personal Details Born: 23 January 1894 in Willaston, Prees, Shropshire and baptised 4 March the same year in Calverhall Parish Church. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to George Simon, a dairy farmer, and his wife Mary …

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William Walters Shone

King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Personal Details Born: 3 June 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 19 June the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to William Shone, a gardener, and his wife Sarah, …

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William Frederick Groom

Royal Garrison Artillery

Personal Details Born:  16 June 1887, Whitchurch Shropshire and baptised 3 July at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church. Family: He was the second of five children born to William Groom, a blacksmith, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Lillian M. Green, …

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William Skerratt

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: 23 December 1885 in Tushingham, Cheshire. Family: He was the second of four children born to Thomas Skerratt, a labourer, and his wife Frances. The 1939 Register indicates that he was single at that time. Residence: He …

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Albert Stockton

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: February 1876 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 2 March the same year in St. Alkmund’s parish church. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to Charles Stockton, a railway platelayer, and his wife Mary. He …

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William Edgar Stockton

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 4 December 1897 in Marley Green, Cheshire and baptised 2 January 1898 in Marbury Parish Church, Cheshire. (Note that the date of birth declared on the 1939 Register was 26 October 1897) Family: He was the youngest …

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James Stubbs

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 15 July 1896 in Tilstock, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to James Stubbs, a railway platelayer, and his wife Sarah Ann. He married Bessie Hoyland Mawdsley on 11 July 1917 in …

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Richard Sudlow

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 6 April 1882 in Hanmer, Flintshire, Wales and baptised on 7 May the same year in Hanmer parish church. Family: He was the second of eight children born to Thomas Sudlow, a smallholder, and his wife Eliza. …

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