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 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 …
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 …
Alfred Charles Hendrick was born in Market Street, Ellesmere in 1893. He was the eldest son of Alfred and Harriet Hendrick of 58, High Street, Whitchurch. Alfred worked as a Railway Porter at Woodside, Birkenhead before enlisting in the Army …