Nantwich Guardian 26 March 1915

Report in the Nantwich Guardian 26th March 1915 regarding the death of Herbert Wickstead Ethelston

"News has been received of the death in action at Neuve Chapelle of Lieut. Herbert Ethelston, of the Grenadier Guards. Lieut. Ethelston, who rejoined his regiment on the outbreak of the war, was a younger son of the late Mr. Edmund Peel, of Brynewyl, and a descendent of the late Sir Robert Peel. He built Wickstead Hall, Whitchurch, eight years ago. He was a keen cricketer, and had captained the Shropshire Gentlemen. He was recently appointed vice-president of the Whitchurch Dairy Farmers Association, in succession to Captain R. W. Ethelston, who died last year."

Nantwich Guardian 26th March 1915


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