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 …
Letter in the Whitchurch Herald 9th September 1916 received by Mr and Mrs Gough regarding the death of their son, William Gough. “Dear Mr Goff, It is with very great regret that I have to communicate to you a very …
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 …
William Gough (Goff in 1911 Census) was born in Farndon, Cheshire, in 1894, the second son of John and Alice Gough of ‘Northumbria’, Mile Bank, Whitchurch. The 1911 Census shows William as a farm worker and living in Wirswall. His …