Personal Details Born: 18 May 1897 in Ellesmere, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of at least four children born to Edward Price, a coachman and his wife Mary Jane, nee Humphries. He married Mary E Cutler in 1929 in … 
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Personal Details Born: In 1877 in Barnstaple, Devon and baptised 4 November 1877 in Georgeham Parish Church, Devon. Family: He was the fifth of eight children born to Edward Ellis Dawson, a policemen, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Frances …
Personal Details Born: 14th November 1891 in Oswestry, Shropshire. Family: Herbert was the youngest, probably of four children, born to John and Elizabeth Roberts. In 1920 he married Ethel Brereton at Nantwich, Cheshire. They went on to have seven children …
Personal Details Born: 27 June 1894 and baptised July 18 the same year at St Alkmund’s parish church in Whitchurch. Family: Second son of Alfred and May Cooper. In 1916 Edward married Mary J Bedford in Whitchurch and together they …
Personal Details Born: 3 February 1895 in Ash, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: Fifth of eight children born to William Arrowsmith, a timber salesman and his wife, Caroline Ellen. He married Lucy M Cranage in 1922 in Burton, Staffordshire, and together they …
Personal Details Born: 31 January 1897. Family: The third son of George Alfred and Margaret Ann Porter of 4 Egerton Road, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Charles married Lizzie Eddies in 1924. Civilian Occupation: Prior to enlisting he was employed as a labourer; in 1939 he was a …
Born in Prees, Whitchurch, Shropshire in 1899 (baptised 25th January 1899), the second son of Harry and Harriet Thomas of Hare Cottage, Prees Wood, Prees, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Regiment : 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards Rank : Private Service Number : 28943 Killed …
Born in Pickhill, Denbighshire, Wales in 1889, the second son of Charles and Selina Williams of The Fields, Bradley, Cheshire. Husband to Agnes Williams of Yew Tree Cottage, Halghton Lane, Hanmer, Flintshire, Wales. Regiment : 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards Rank …
Reginald Arthur Trickett was born in Oldham, Lancashire in 1893, the only son of John and Ada Trickett of 7 St Mary’s Street, Whitchurch. Reginald worked as a tailor in Manchester before joining the Army in 1915. Regiment : 3rd …
Wilfred James Venables was born at Kempley Farm, Ightfield, Whitchurch, Shropshire in 1897, the fourth son of the late James and the late Susannah Venables of the same address. Wilfred’s parents both died in 1910, and he and his three …
Douglas Arthur Oulton, born in Eaton, Cheshire in 1892, the third son of Thomas and Mary Oulton of Fields Farm, Lower Peover, Cheshire. Douglas was living in Tarporley Road, Whitchurch and was working as a clerk in the local Iron …
Richard Stockley was born in Whitchurch in 1897. He was the third son of William and Sarah Stockley of Grooms Cottage, Edgeley Bank, Whitchurch. Regiment : 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards Rank : Lance Corporal Service Number : 24187 Killed in …
Born in Lisnaskea, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland in 1887, the eldest son of Catherine Graydon of 28 Ash Parva, Whitchurch, Shropshire. The 1911 Census shows him working as a general farm labourer. William’s brother Joseph died of heart failure at Prees …
Herbert Wickstead Ethelston was born in Park Lane, London on 4th November 1881, the third son of the late Edmund Peel (formerly Ethelston) and the late Henrietta Margaret Peel of Bryn-y-Pys, Overton, Flintshire, Wales. Husband of Muriel Margaret Ethelston (nee …