Personal Details Born: 15 January 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 5 February 1899 at the Church of the Saviour, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to James Henry Groom, a blacksmith, and his wife Margaret … 
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Personal Details Born: 16 June 1887, Whitchurch Shropshire and baptised 3 July at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church. Family: He was the second of five children born to William Groom, a blacksmith, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Lillian M. Green, …
The memorial is in the Scout Hut in Horsemans Green. It was relocated from the Wesleyan Chapel in the village when this was sold to be converted into a private house. This is an ongoing project, information will be …
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 …
The memorial is outside St Chad’s Church, Hanmer. 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 …
The panel containing the memorial was removed from the original Grammar School in Bargate, Whitchurch and now hangs in Sir John Talbot School, Tilstock Road, Whitchurch, the current secondary school. This is an ongoing project, information will be added …
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 …
The following Whitchurch men were recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal : 43987 2nd Cpl. G. G. Wyatt, 16th Div. Sig. Coy., Royal Engineers Whitchurch, Shropshire – 31 December 1918 11851 Pte. G. M. Sergeant, 6th Bn., King’s Shropshire Light …
Report in The Brecon County Times 17 April 1919 regarding the death of Joseph Groom “The death took place at Welshpool on the 5th inst., under peculiarly sad circumstances of Regimental-Sergt.-Major Joseph Groom, of the 1st Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry. …
Born in Norbury, Cheshire in 1896, the husband of Edith Mabel Groom (nee De Loura) (married in 1917) of 56 The Street, Brecon, Powys, Wales. Joseph went to France in November 1914 as part of the British Expeditionary Force, serving …
George Harold Groom was born in Hanmer, Flintshire in 1897, the eldest son of Levi and Elizabeth Groom of Horseman’s Green, near Whitchurch Shropshire. Regiment : 21st Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps Rank : Rifleman Service Number : R/33490 Died …