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 … 
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Personal Details Born in Whixall, Shropshire in 1889, the second of nine children born to John and Mary Evans of 9 Post Office Lane, Whixall. John married Sarah A Foster in 1915 in Whixall; no children can be traced for …
Personal Details Born: 27 November 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 17 December 1886 in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the fourth child of seven born to Stephen Charles Evans, a rural postman, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: In 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised with his twin brother Charles on 2 November 1886 in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the third of six surviving children born to George Evans, a milk dealer, …
Personal Details Born: 13 December 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. He was known as Harold. Family: He was the fifth of seven surviving children of Alfred Evans, a stone mason, and his wife Eliza. He was single in 1939; no marriage has …
Personal Details Born: 1 April 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire and baptised 2 June the same year in Holy Trinity Church, Oswestry. Family: He was the third of seven children born to George Evans, a locomotive engine driver, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 18 February 1899 in Burleydam, Cheshire. He was also known as Sidney. Family: He was the eldest of at least four children of William Evans, a farm waggoner, and his wife Pamela. He married Hannah Elson in …
Personal Details Born: In 1878 in Burleydam, Cheshire. Family: He was the fifth of six children born to Peter Evans, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Ann. He married Pamela Felton in 1898 in Market Drayton, Shropshire and together they …
Personal Details Born: 30 June 1889 in Oswestry, Shropshire and baptised on 25 July the same year in St. Oswald’s Church, Oswestry. Family: He was the eldest of seven children born to George Evans, a locomotive engine driver, and his …
Personal Details Born: In 1881 in Hollyhurst, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Also known as Stephen Charles Evans. Family: He was the third of eight children born to Stephen Charles Evans, a rural postman, and his wife Sarah Harriet. No marriage can be …
Personal Details Born: 6 April 1878 in Hollyhurst, near Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 26 May the same year in St. Michael’s Parish Church, Marbury, Cheshire. Family: He was the second of eight children born to Stephen Charles Evans, a rural …
Personal Details Born: 27 April 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 8 May the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the youngest of eight children born to Stephen Charles Evans, a rural postman, and his …
Personal Details Born: October 1876 in Platt Lane, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of six surviving children born to William Evans, a canal boatman, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Sarah Ann Sparrow on 14 September 1892 in …
Personal Details Born: 29 July 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 11 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the sixth of seven children born to George Evans, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Mary …
Personal Details Born: 14 April 1875 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 16 April the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the eldest of seven children born to George Evans, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Mary …
The memorial was on the outside wall of the United Reformed Church, Whixall. The church has been sold for conversion into a private dwelling; the memorial has been removed and is now free-standing in the adjacent graveyard. This is …
The memorial is near Whixall primary school, Mossleigh, Whixall. 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 and beyond will …
The memorial is in the graveyard of St. Mary’s parish church. 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 and …
The memorial is outside St Oswald’s Church, Malpas. 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 and beyond will get …
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 …
If you have any photographs or information relating to the project please get in touch by leaving a comment below, using our Contact Form or by calling in to Whitchurch Heritage Centre. …
The Territorial Force War Medal was a campaign medal awarded to members of the British Territorial Force and Territorial Force Nursing Services who served overseas in World War I; it is the rarest of the five British Great War medals. …
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 …
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 …
Edward Frank Evans (known as Frank) was born in Tilstock, Whitchurch, Shropshire in 1894, the eldest son of Edward and Sarah Ann Evans of 1 Hollins Lane, Tilstock, Whitchurch, Shropshire. The 1911 Census shows Frank working at home on a …
William Albert Evans was born in Dudleston Heath, Ellesmere, Shropshire in 1894. He married Hannah Austin (sister of Joseph Edward Austin) in Whitchurch on the 13th August 1915 and they had two daughters, Silvia and Caroline. The 1911 Census records …
Born in Whitchurch, Shropshire in 1889, the third son of Charles and Margaret Evans of 5 Diglake, Tilstock, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Regiment : 6th Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry Rank : Private Service Number : 26013 Died of wounds; Belgium 17 August 1917 …
Born in St Marys Street, Whitchurch in 1895, the fifth son of George and Mary Ann Evans of 35, St Marys Street, Whitchurch. Frank worked as a Butcher before enlisting. Regiment : 2nd Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, formerly Montgomeryshire Yeomanry …
Report in the Whitchurch Herald 6th June 1916 regarding the death of John Evans “It is with deep sympathy for the widow and four children left at the Higher Wych that we announce the death of that fine soldier, No …
Born in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales in 1883, the eldest son of the late Thomas Evans and Ruth Evans of Island Green Cottage, Wrexham, Wales. Husband of Alice Evans (nee Williams) (married in 1904) of Higher Wych, Malpas, Cheshire and father …
Report in the Whitchurch Herald 29th May 1915 regarding the death of James Evans “Mrs. John Evans, of the Wych, has recently received the following, in reference to the death in action of her brother-in-law, Pte. J. Evans, who has …
Born in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales in 1886, the second son of the late Thomas Evans and Ruth Evans of Island Green Cottage, Wrexham, Wales. James enlisted on 27th October 1905, serving at home and in India and Burma before being …