Personal Details Born: 13 October 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest child born to Richard Birch, an ironfoundry salesman, and his wife Emily (nee Willett). His siblings were Emily and Richard. Francis married Ada M. Heatley Quarter …
The memorial is by the roadside in Tallarn Green. 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 …
The memorial is on the outside wall of Wrenbury School in Nantwich Road, Wrenbury. 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 …
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 …
(Shown as ‘T. Birch’ on the Tallarn Green memorial, but ‘Andrew Thomas Birch’ on CWGC.) Andrew Thomas Birch was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire in 1885, the son of Mary Birch and brother of Ernest, Sarah and Florence. The 1911 Census …
Arthur Rice Birch was born in Newport, Shropshire on 13 July 1893, the eldest son of Thomas and Martha Birch of 25 Bishop Street, Cherry Orchard, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. The 1911 Census shows him as a railway clerk, working for the …