The 1914 Star (also known as ‘Pip’) was authorised under Special Army Order no. 350 in November 1917 and by an Admiralty Fleet Order in 1918, for award to officers and men of the British and Indian Expeditionary Forces who …
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 …
John Samuel Breese was born in Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire in 1886. John was the only son of Robert and Mary Breese of Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire. John was a resident in Braintree, Essex, but for some reason enlisted in Whitchurch in March 1915. …