Personal Details Born: Baptised 20 January 1886 Family: Eldest son and second of six children born to John and Charlotte Ankers. In 1919 he married May Williamson at Whitchurch, Shropshire and together they had two children, Frederick G and Elizabeth … 
Personal Details Born: Baptised 17th July 1889 Family: Son of John and Charlotte. In late 1911 he married Edith Starkey at Whitchurch, Shropshire. Together they had seven children, Lucy E, Phyllis M, Ivy E, Elsie A, Hilda N, Gladys M, …
Personal Details Born: January 12th 1893 and baptised at St Alkmund’s parish church a month later. Family: The fifth of six children born to of John and Charlotte Ankers of Dodington, Whitchurch, Shropshire. In 1920 he married Annie E. Reynolds …
Personal Details Born: 13th March 1887 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 28th September the same year at St Alkmund’s parish church. Family: Third of six children born to John Thomas and Charlotte A. Ankers of 6 Sherrymill Hill, Whitchurch, Shropshire. …
The memorial is outside St Oswald’s Church, Malpas. This is an ongoing project, information will be added to the website over the coming weeks and months. It is hoped that the people of Whitchurch, Shropshire and beyond will get …
The memorial is on the A495 on the Whitchurch side of Bronington by the entrance drive to Holy Trinity Church, Bronington. This is an ongoing project, information will be added to the website over the coming weeks and months. …
The Silver War Badge was issued in the United Kingdom and the British Empire to service personnel who had been honourably discharged due to wounds or sickness from military service in World War I. The badge, sometimes known as the …
The British War Medal (also known as ‘Squeak’) was a silver or bronze medal awarded to officers and men of the British and Imperial Forces who either entered a theatre of war or entered service overseas between 5th August 1914 …
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 …
Born in Newtown, Whitchurch in 1895, the fifth son of John Thomas and Charlotte Ankers of 14b, Dodington, Whitchurch; Husband of Maggie (nee Mellor) Ankers, of Market Drayton, father of Margaret. Regiment : 1st Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment, formerly King’s …
William Thomas Ankers born in Bronington, Flintshire, Wales in 1897, the second son of Thomas and Sarah Ankers of Pinfold Lane, Bronington, Flintshire, Wales. The 1911 Census shows William as a van boy for a baker, miller and grocer. Regiment …
Born in No Man’s Heath, Malpas, Cheshire in 1882, the third son of William and Ellen Ankers of Church Street, Malpas, Cheshire. Husband to Harriet Ankers (nee Warburton) (married 1914) and father of Charles. Robert was a postman prior to …