Personal Details Born: 19 September 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: Only son of Thomas and Ann Clayton. In 1931 Frank married Hilda A Heatley in Whitchurch. They had one daughter, Margaret, born in 1932 in Whitchurch. Residence: In 1901 Frank … 
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 …
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 …
Obituary for Thomas Clayton in the Lancashire Evening Post 22 October 1918 “Clayton. – Killed in action, in France, October 2nd, Lance-Corpl. THOMAS CLAYTON, aged 32 years. As dawn crept o’er the trenches, You fell ‘midst shot and shell; My …
Born in Dodington, Whitchurch in 1887, the second son of Thomas and Anne Clayton of 3a, Wrexham, Road, Whitchurch. Regiment : 25th (Service) Battalion The King’s (Liverpool Regiment), formerly Royal Welsh Fusiliers No 5113 Rank : Lance Corporal Service Number …