Personal Details Born: 4 January 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of eight children born to Joseph Jackson, a goods porter, and his wife Emma. He married Nellie Allman in 1921 in Whitchurch and together they had …
Personal Details Born: 5 March 1898 in Bronington, Flintshire, Wales and baptised on 10 April the same year in Bronington Parish Church. Family: He was the second of seven children born to William George Jackson, a farmer, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 23 June 1886 in Hinstock, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to William Jackson, a farm labourer, and his wife Mary. He married Minnie Elizabeth Thelwell in 1943 in Whitchurch, Shropshire; no children …
Personal Details Born: 22 August 1889 in Hinstock, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of four children born to William Jackson, a general labourer, and his wife Mary. Our research suggests he never married. Residence: In 1891 he lived with …
Personal Details Born: In 1876 or 1877 in Malpas, Cheshire and baptised on 8 April 1877 in St Oswald’s Church, Malpas. Family: He was the son of Jane Jackson. He married Mary Elizabeth Jones on 9 September 1915 in Oswestry, …
Personal Details Born: 23 August 1887 in Hinstock, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of six children born to William Jackson, a farm labourer, and his wife Mary. The probate record indicates probate to Mary Jackson (widow) but a definite …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Report in the Whitchurch Herald 21st September 1918 relating to the death of John Jackson “Killed in Action on the 21st August 1918, in France, Corporal John Jackson 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment, youngest son of Mr & Mrs Jackson, late …
Born in Marbury, Cheshire in 1889, the second son of Thomas and Jane Jackson. Husband of Martha (nee Gregory) Jackson of 29 St Mary’s Street, Whitchurch. John was a regular soldier serving with the 2nd Battalion Cheshire Regiment in Jubbulpore, …
Born in New Woodhouse, Whitchurch, Shropshire in 1897, the second son of Thomas and Esther Elizabeth Jackson of Church Lane, Ash Magna, Whitchurch, Shropshire. The 1911 census shows him working as a domestic gardener (at the age of 14). Regiment …