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 …
Born in Bark Hill, Whitchurch in 1880, the second son of William and Elizabeth Debanks of 5 Barkhill, Whitchurch. Husband of Ann (nee Brish) Debanks, of Guildford, Surrey. William was a Army reservist, mobilised in August 1914. He had previously …