Personal Details Born: 31 March 1891 in Altrincham, Cheshire. Family: He was the fourth of five children of Walter Hobbs, a grocer’s assistant, and his wife Jane. He married Jessie May Douglas in Whitchurch, Shropshire in 1915 and together they …
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 …
Sidney Oscar Hobbs, born in Crumpsall, Manchester in 1887, the second son of Walter and Jane Hobbs of 15 Bark Hill, Whitchurch. Sidney was working as a tailor’s presser before joining the Army. Regiment : 16th (Service) Battalion King’s Royal …