Personal Details Born: 1882 in Ettingshall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. Family: He was the second of five children born to James Burrows, a miner and his wife Mary, nee Preston. His father died in 1889 and his mother married Joseph Farr in …
The memorial is in St John’s Methodist Church, St John’s Street, Whitchurch. 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 …
St Alkmund’s Church is at the top of Bargate, Whitchurch, next to the site of the original Whitchurch Grammar School. At the west end of the Church is a triptych form war memorial with a central panel 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 …
Report in the Whitchurch Herald 28th August 1916 on the death of George Percy Burrows Letter received by Mrs Burrows; “Dear Mrs Burrows, Will you kindly accept my sincere sympathy and condolence in the decease of that worthy citizen and …
Letter to the parents of William Ernest Burrows in the Wellington Journal & Shrewsbury News July 1916 regarding the death of their son. “I much regret having to tell you that your son Rifleman W E Burrows was killed in …
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 …
George Percy Burrows was born in Whitchurch in 1888. He was the second son of George and Emily Burrows of 39, Talbot Street, Whitchurch. The 1911 Census shows George living in Lichfield and working as a butcher’s assistant. George emigrated …
William Ernest Burrows was born in Whitchurch in 1892. He was the fourth son of George and Emma Burrows of 39, Talbot Street, Whitchurch. William enlisted in September 1914, he was a member of the Church Lads Brigade. William’s elder …