Personal Details Born: 15 September 1883 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the son of William Povah and his wife Mary, nee Pace. He married Harriet Jean Easton in Canada. They had a daughter, Dorothy. Residence: In 1891 he was … 
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Personal Details Born: 11 April 1870 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 8 June the same year at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of nine children born to William Venables, a grocer and his wife, Sarah …
Personal Details Born: 4 December 1896 in Ash, Shropshire. Family: He was the fifth of six children born to John Riley, a chauffeur (later a farmer in Canada) and his wife Helena Annie, nee Ely. He married Caroline Emily Marsh …
Personal Details Born: 12 January 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 19 February 1886 at St. Michael`s Parish Church, Marbury, Cheshire. Family: He was the third of five children born to Colonel Charles Edward Wynne-Eyton and his wife Aline Mary, …
Personal Details Born: 2 August 1887 in Halghton, Hanmer, Flintshire and baptised on 28 August 1887 at Hanmer Parish Church. Family: He was the sixth of seven children born to Samuel Gardiner Rolfe, a joiner and his wife Mary Ann, …
Personal Details Born: 8 July 1886 in Ingatestone, Mountnessing, Essex and baptised on 25 July 1886 in Essex. Family: He was the eldest of six children born to John Riley, a coachman (later a farmer in Canada) and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 12 June 1890 in Prees, Shropshire and baptised at St.Chad`s Church, Prees. Family: He was the younger of two sons born to Elizabeth Ann Furber. At the time of his birth she was unmarried. His mother subsequently …
Personal Details Born: 26 March 1887 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 11 October 1887 at St Alkmund`s Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the youngest of six children born to Thomas Nunnerley, a farmer and his wife Mary Ann, nee …
Personal Details Born: 29 April 1889 in Moreton Say, Shropshire and baptised on 26 May 1889 in Moreton Say Parish Church. Family: He was one of six surviving children born to Henry Roberts, an agricultural worker and his wife Martha. …
Personal Details Born: 4 November 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 4 December 1889 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of five surviving children born to Daniel Maddock, an engine cleaner and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 25 July 1891 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of four children born to Joseph William Fleet, an ironmonger’s manager and his wife Elizabeth Helen, nee Tims. He married Jessie Alice Docker on 5 November …
Personal Details Born: 18 August 1885 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of nine children born to Thomas Powell Higginson, a butcher and his wife Elizabeth. He married Mabel Michelhausen on 14 May 1915 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. …
Personal Details Born: 18 July 1885 in Tushingham, Cheshire. Family: He was the sixth of seven children born to Samuel Taylor, a coachman and his wife Ann. No marriage can be found for him. Residence: In 1889 his family were …
Personal Details Born: 8 February 1890 in Calverhall, Shropshire and baptised on 13 April 1890 at Holy Trinity Church, Calverhall. Family: He was one of seven surviving children born to Benjamin Nicholls, a coachman and gardener and his wife Alice, …
Personal Details Born: 14 August 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to Frederick John Letheren, a master tailor and his wife Nellie, nee Candlin. He married Lillian Leona Hammond on 26 January 1921 …
Personal Details Born: 12 January 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 3 February 1886 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was one of nine surviving children born to William Crewe, a labourer in a foundry and his …
Personal Details Born: Henry, known as Harry, on 27 July 1879 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 13 August 1879 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was one of nine surviving children born to William Crewe, a labourer …
Personal Details Born: 3 May 1879 in Whitchurch,Shropshire and baptised on 25 June 1879 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was one of nine surviving children born to John Crewe, a labourer and his wife Margaret. He married …
Personal Details Born: 26 October 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 22 November 1893 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was one of nine surviving children born to William Crewe, a labourer and his wife Ann, nee …
Personal Details Born: 27 July 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 20 September the same year at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to Thomas Henry Wyatt, an engineer and his …
Personal Details Born: 25 July 1886 in Wybunbury, Cheshire and baptised on 20 August 1886 at Wybunbury Parish Church, Wybunbury, Cheshire. Family: She was the youngest of six surviving children born to Charles Roper Whitton, an agent for cattle food …
Personal Details Born: 13 March 1880 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of ten children born to Michael Joseph O`Neill and his wife Emily, nee Henshall. Alfred did not marry. Residence: In 1881 his family were living in …
Personal Details Born: He was born James Worthington Mercer on 3 September 1887 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 28 October 1887 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of seven children born to Walter Edward …
Personal Details Born: 16 August 1889 in Bettisfield, Flintshire and baptised on 1 September 1889 at Hanmer Parish Church, Hanmer, Flintshire. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to John McHugh, a publican and his wife Anne Elizabeth, …
Personal Details Born: 9 May 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 31 May 1896 at the United Reformed Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of six children born to Frederick J Letheren, a tailor and his wife Nellie, …
Personal Details Born: 12 February 1887 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 6 August 1887 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the second of five children born to Walter Conway Joyce, a clock manufacturer and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 31 January 1891 in Whixall, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of eight children born to John Fowles, a farmer and his wife Sarah, nee Batho. He married Edith Mary Skelton on 11 August 1919 in Kamloops, …
Personal Details Born: 25 December 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 26 January 1887 at St. Alkmunds Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of five children born to Samuel Evans, a stonemason and his wife Eliza, nee …
Personal Details Born: 8 May 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the only child born to William John Brownrigg Bookey, a naval surgeon and his wife Ann Elizabeth, nee Brown. He married Alice Roberta Ogilvie on 9 October 1929 …
Personal Details Born: 12 November 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: Parents not known. He married Lilian Jones on 1 April 1920 at St Michael and All Angels Church, Blackburn, Lancashire. The couple had a daughter, Elizabeth, born in 1921. Residence: …
Personal Details Born: 11 April 1887 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to John Chidlow, an insurance agent and his wife Jane, nee Bennett. His first wife died in 1912; he had one child, …
Personal Details Born: 6 June 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the only child born to Albert Baggaley, a groom and his wife Sarah Ann, nee Richards. He married Damaris Cudworth in 1919 in Newhaven, Sussex. The couple had …
Personal Details Born: 1 December 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 1 January 1890 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of four children born to William Austin, a schoolmaster and his wife, Kate. He …
Personal Details Born: 9 March 1895 in Tilstock, Shropshire and baptised 19 May 1895 at Tilstock Parish Church, Tilstock. Family: He was the youngest of four children born to Thomas James Anthony, a schoolmaster and his wife Harriet, nee Creswell. …
Personal Details Born: 5 September 1884 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 8 October 1884 at St Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the son of Henry Coulthirst Frith, a plumber and his wife Mary, nee Hayward. He married Jennie …
Personal Details Born: 17 December 1882 in Brunel, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. Family: He was the third of four children born to Henry Percival and Rosa Helen Beckett. He married Madge Farrington in Whitchurch, Shropshire in 1906; no children can be …
Personal Details Born: 24 January 1880 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 14 March the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to John Shone, a chemist and grocer, and his …
Born in Newhall, Nantwich, Cheshire on 5 February 1884, the second son of Thomas Allen and Sarah Hannah Hancock of Combermere Cottage, Old Woodhouse, Broughall, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Harry was husband to Mary Ellen Hancock (they married 7 September 1916), living …
Born in Hodnet, Shropshire on 6 January 1898, the third son of the Richard and Sarah Ann Sands of 55 Church Hill, Ironbridge, Shropshire. There are two CWGC (Commonwealth War Graves Commission) records for 349508 Canadian Field Artillery – for …