Personal Details No personal details known. Military Details Regiment: Royal Engineers (previously Cheshire Regiment) Rank: Private Service Number: 197382 (previously WR/259538 (RE) and 10271 (Cheshire)) Date of Enlistment: Not known Date of Discharge: Not known Reason for Discharge: Not known …
Personal Details Born: 1 July 1884 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 6 August 1884. Family: He was the fourth of five children of Samuel Harris, a tallow chandler, and his wife Emma. He married Elizabeth Fowles in 1911 in …
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 …
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 Green End, Whitchurch in 1878, the eldest son of Samuel and Emma Harris of Park Road, Whitchurch. Husband of Alice Barbara (nee Fox) Harris, of 1 Park Road, Whitchurch and father of Thomas, Miriam, Jack and George William. …