Personal Details Born: In 1896 in Whitchurch Shropshire and baptised on 9 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to Mary Hall. He married Emma Cracknell in 1916 …
Personal Details Born: In 1876 in Limehouse, Middlesex. Family: He was the eldest of five children born to William Hall, a labourer, and his wife Rebecca. No marriage can be traced for William. Residence: In 1881 and 1891 he lived …
Personal Details Born: 7 July 1876 in Pitchford, Wem, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to Thomas Holding, a baker, and his wife Emily (the baptism record identifies her as Mary Anne). He married Sarah Ann …
Personal Details Born: 31 July 1875 in Oakengates, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of five children of George Hall, a stone breaker, and his wife Mary. He also had two step siblings from his mother’s first marriage. George married Martha …
Personal Details Born: In 1881 Family: He married Katherine M Walker in 1921 in Darlington, Durham and together they had two children – Margaret R and Patricia E. Residence: The 1919 Absent Voters’ Register records his address as Deermoss House, …
The memorial is outside St Chad’s Church, Tushingham. 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 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. …
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 Military Cross is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and used to be awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries. The Military Cross is granted in recognition of …
Mrs Sybil Annie HallOf 16 Main Road, Handsworth, Sheffield, YorksServed at Prees Heath Military Hospital, Whitchurch, SalopFrom 12/01/1917 to 21/06/1917
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 Whitchurch, Shropshire in 1896, the eldest son of George and the late Emily Hall of 4 Churton’s Yard, Bark Hill, Whitchurch, Shropshire. The 1911 Census shows Percy as an errand boy. Regiment : 199th Company Machine Gun Corps …
Robert Hall was born in Whitchurch in 1894. He was the eldest son of Mary Ann Hall of 8 St Mary’s Street, Whitchurch. Robert enlisted in Ellesmere Port on the 4th August 1914 and landed in France in July 1915.