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 … 
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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 …
This page from the Rectory Visitors Book is dated 23rd March 1915. It records the names, ranks and regiments of soldiers who were patients at Broughall Cottage VAD Hospital. …
The memorial is in the lych-gate of St Wenefrede’s Church, Bickley. 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 …
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 Territorial Force War Medal was a campaign medal awarded to members of the British Territorial Force and Territorial Force Nursing Services who served overseas in World War I; it is the rarest of the five British Great War medals. …
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 …
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 …
Frank G Hewitt, born in Norbury, Cheshire in 1894, the second son of Thomas and Jane Hewitt of Norbury Common, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Regiment : 514th Agricultural Company, Labour Corps Rank : Private Service Number : 459494 Likely died from illness; …
Born in Shocklach, Cheshire in 1896, the eldest son of David and Edith Hewitt of Bradley Brook, Malpas, Cheshire. Joseph had an older step-brother, William Fairbrother. The 1911 Census shows Joseph as a general farm lad working on Whalebone Farm, …
Charles Arthur Hewitt, born in Aston, Birmingham in 1897, the third son of Thomas and Emily Hewitt. By the time he enlisted his mother was a widow living at 14 Egerton Road, Whitchurch. Charles died of Pneumonia at Poixterron. His …
Born in Aston, Birmingham in 1891, the eldest son of Thomas and Emily Hewitt. Mrs. Hewitt would lose her three sons in the Great War. Thomas was possibly in the Army/Territorial’s before August 1914; he landed in France on the …
Born in Aston, Birmingham in 1893, the second son of Thomas and Emily Hewitt. In 1911 he was living at 14 Egerton Road Whitchurch and was working as a tailor before enlisting in August 1914. He landed in France on …