The memorial is on the corner of Whitchurch Road and Ash Lane, Ash Magna; with a plaque inside Christ Church, Ash. This is an ongoing project, information will be added to the website over the coming weeks and months. …
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 …
His Army Record States; “Sir, I beg to report that No. 20850 Pte. J. W. Frost 6th Bn. York & Lancashire Regiment was admitted on board this Hospital Ship on 16th September 1915, suffering from Dysentery. His condition on admission …
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 Stinsford, Dorset in 1892, the eldest son of John and Mary Frost. Husband of May (nee Edge) Frost of Egerton Road, Whitchurch. John worked as a groom before enlisting in 1914. Regiment : 6th (Service) Battalion York & …