Chester Chronicle 13 July 1918

Report in the Chester Chronicle 13 July 1918 regarding the death of John Faulkner “RIFLEMAN FAULKNER KILLED We regret to record the death of Rifleman John Faulkner King’s (Liverpool) Regiment, only surviving son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Faulkner of …

Button

Chester Chronicle 6 April 1918

Report in the Chester Chronicle 6th April 1918 regarding the death of John Thomas Jones “News was received from the War Office on Saturday that Captain John T. Jones had ‘died on March 28th, information to follow.’ The fact that …

Button

Chester Chronicle 3 March 1917

Report in the Chester Chronicle 3 March 1917 regarding the death of John Mercer “DEATH OF MR. JOHN MERCER. – The sad news arrived on Thursday last from the War Office that Mr. H. Mercer’s youngest son, John, had died. …

Button

Chester Chronicle 30 December 1916

Report in the Chester Chronicle 30 December 1916 of the military wedding of John Thomas Jones and Lydia Ann Houghton “On Thursday a quiet wedding was solemnised at the Primitive Methodist Church, Ellesmere Port, the contracting parties being Captain and …

Button

Chester Chronicle 30th September 1916

Report in the Chester Chronicle 30th September 1916 regarding the deaths of Eric Hanson Lee and his brother John Arthur Lee “Mr. Leonard Lee, who lost his wife only recently, has now sustained a fearfully heavy blow. Both sons have …

Button

Chester Chronicle 30 October 1915

Report in the Chester Chronicle 30th October 1915 regarding the death of Joseph Stevenson “THREAPWOOD ANIOTHER HERO’S DEATH Threapwood has done well in the great war. The first of her sons to fall was No. 9925 Pte. George Matthews, 1st …

Button

Chester Chronicle 23 October 1915

Report in the Chester Chronicle 23rd October 1915 about Harold Gregory “Mrs. Henry Tollemache has received further acknowledgements of the parcels of comforts sent from Nantwich to prisoners of war in Germany. Pte. H. Gregory writes to Mrs. Tollemache:- “Dear …

Button

Chester Chronicle 9 October 1915

Report in the Chester Chronicle 9th October 1915 regarding the death of Douglas Kirk Wolley Dod “THE LATE LIEUT. D. K. WOLLEY-DOD HOW HE FELL Further particulars are now given of the fate of Lieutenant Douglas Kirk Wolley-Dod, King’s (Liverpool …

Button

Chester Chronicle 2 October 1915

Report in the Chester Chronicle 2nd October 1915 regarding the death of Douglas Kirk Wolley Dod “MALPAS OFFICER KILLED News has been received at Edge Hall that Lieut. Douglas Kirk Wolley-Dod, 120th Battalion of the King’s Liverpool Regiment, is reported …

Button

Chester Chronicle 5 June 1915

Report in the Chester Chronicle 5 June 1915 regarding the death of John Turner Clough Hazledine “Second Lieut. John Turner Clough Hazledine, 4th Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who was killed in action on May 9th, was the third son of the …

Button

Chester Chronicle 20 March 1915

Report in the Chester Chronicle 20th March 1915 regarding the death of Herbert Wickstead Ethelston “It was announced on Thursday, and the news was received in Cheshire and Flintshire with deep regret, that Lieutenant Herbert Wicksted Ethelston, of the Grenadier …

Button

Chester Chronicle 14 November 1914

Report in the Chester Chronicle 14th November 1914 regarding the death of Hugh Handley Sandbach “CAPT. HUGH H. SANDBACH KILLED IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA The news of the week carries on its wing another of the sad stories of the …

Button