George Robert Jones

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 26 May 1883 in Lilleshall, Shropshire and was baptised on 24 June the same year in Lilleshall Parish Church. Family: He was the oldest of three children born to George Jones, a gardener, and his wife Eliza. …

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Frank Jones

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 5 November 1882 in Waverton, Cheshire and baptised on 10 December the same year in the Parish Church of Waverton. Family: He was the third of seven children born to William Jones, an agricultural labourer, and his …

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William Price Jones

Labour Corps

Personal Details Born: 3 May 1893 in Richard’s Castle, Herefordshire and baptised on 8 August 1893 in the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Ludlow, Shropshire. Family: He was the younger of two children born to William Jones, a blacksmith, and his wife …

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Sydney Lloyd Jones

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 16 February 1895 in Llanrhaeadr, Denbighshire, Wales. Family: He was the grandson of Margaret Jones, an innkeeper and probably the son of Joseph Jones, a car proprietor and his wife Mary Ann. He married Annie Lewis in …

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John William Jones

Personal Details Born: 13 July 1892 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 5 October the same year in St Alkmund’s Parish Church in Whitchurch. Family: He was the second of three children born to Mary Jones. He married Daisy Adkins …

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John William Jones

Personal Details Born: 29 March 1893 in Wrenbury, Cheshire. Family: He was the eldest of four surviving children of William Jones, a teamsman on a farm, and his wife Emily. He married Beatrice A Jukes in 1921 in Whitchurch, Shropshire …

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Alfred Jones

Personal Details Born: He was born in either 1866 or 1874 in Ellesmere, Shropshire. (The Census records show differing years of birth and due to the common name it has not proved possible to locate a definite birth record). Family: …

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Amos Jones

Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Personal Details Born: 8 February 1876 in Holywell, Flintshire, Wales. Family: He was the third child of Amos Jones, a bricklayer, and his wife Jane. He married Ada Sarah Smith on 14 November 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and together they …

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Arthur Jones

Personal Details Born: In 1871 in Tilston, near Malpas, Cheshire and baptised on 10 September the same year in St Oswald’s Parish Church, Malpas. Family: He was the eldest of six children born to Thomas Jones, a gamekeeper, and his …

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Charles Haddon Jones

Personal Details Born: 3 May 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the only child of Edward Jones, a jeweller and watch dealer, and his wife Mary. He married Florence Price in 1929 in Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales. No children can …

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George Richard Jones

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: In 1894 in Oswestry, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of two children born to Richard Jones, a domestic groom, and his wife Ellen. He married Agnes Davenport on 5 April 1915 in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, …

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John Ernest George Jones

King's Liverpool Regiment

Personal Details Born: 18 March 1900 in Tilstock, Shropshire and baptised on 15 April the same year in Tilstock Parish Church. Family: He was the fourth of nine children born to George Jones, a farm wagonner, and his wife Harriet …

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Charles William Jones

Personal Details Born: 9 November 1875 according to 1939 register but probably 9 Nov 1874 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Baptised 28 March 1875 at St Alkmund’s Church, Whitchurch. Family: Charles was the son of William and Ann Jones and brother of …

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Edward Barrow Jones

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details Born: In 1882 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 9 August of the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the elder of two children born to Barrow Jones, a wine merchant, and his …

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Joseph Henry Jones

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: 3 August 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eighth of ten children born to George Jones, a farm labourer, and his first wife Mary. Mary died in 1901 and George married again to Martha Oliver …

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Reginald Edwin Jones

Personal Details Born: 4 July 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 29 July the same year at St. Alkmund’s Church Whitchurch. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to William Edwin Jones, a painter and decorator, and …

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Thomas Harold Ffoulkes Jones

Personal Details Born: 10 July 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 1 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s Church Whitchurch. Family: He was the second of seven children born to Llewellyn Ffoulkes Jones, a plumber and gas fitter, and …

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William Jones

Personal Details Born: 20 January 1886 in Wellington, Shropshire. Family: He married Ellen Bates in 1906 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and together they had five children – William Richard, Peter, Harriett E, Hilda and Mary J. Residence: In 1911 he lived …

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Walter Jones

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: In 1896 in Tushingham, Cheshire, near Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the sixth of ten children born to George Jones, a farm labourer, and his first wife Mary. Mary died in 1901 and George married again to …

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Edward Jones

King's Liverpool Regiment

Personal Details Born: 16 July 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to Edward Jones, a grocer, and his wife Mary. He married Lilian M Taylor in 1926 in Whitchurch. We believe there were children …

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George Jones

Personal Details Born: In 1875 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 26 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s parish Church. Family: He was the eldest of five children born to Robert Jones, a boilermaker, and his wife Sarah. He married …

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Frederick Stanley Jones

Personal Details Born: In 1900 in Bangor-on-Dee, Flintshire and known as Stanley throughout his life. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to Robert Jones, a domestic gardener, and his wife Hannah. No marriage can be conclusively confirmed …

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Edwin Jones

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Personal Details Born: January 1877 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: The fourth child of Joseph and Annie Jones of 37 Folly Lane, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Edwin married Alice Thompson on the 1 March 1905 and together they had 2 children – Ronald and Winifred …

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Charles Jones

Personal Details Born: 1895. Civilian Occupation: Charles was a farm labourer before enlisting.       Military Details Regiment: Machine Gun Corps (previously Cheshire Regiment) Rank: Private Service Number: 61347 (previously 17727) Date of Enlistment: 2 November 1914 Date of Discharge: 21 …

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Whitewell Memorial

The memorial is opposite the entrance to Iscoyd Park. 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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Malpas Memorial

  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 …

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St Alkmund’s Church Memorial

St Alkmunds Memorial

    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 …

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Campaign Medals 3

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 …

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Campaign Medals 2

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 …

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Whitchurch Herald 21st October 1916

Letter in the Whitchurch Herald 21st October 1916 received by Mrs Jones regarding the death of her husband, Joseph Jones. “Dear Madam, As the Chaplain attached to the 3rd Worcester Regiment, it is with deepest regret and sympathy that I …

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Whitchurch Herald 15th July 1916

Report in the Whitchurch Herald 15th July 1916 on the death of George Frederick Jones Letter received by Mr & Mrs Jones; “It’s with deepest regret that I write this letter to inform you of the death of your son, …

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Whitchurch Memorial

War Memorial - Whitchurch, Shropshire

  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 …

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Thomas Jones

The Great War History Hub Whitchurch, shropshire - War dead missing image

Thomas Ivan Jones was born in Rensselaer, New York, United States of America on 6th October 1890, the son of Thomas and Minnie H Jones who were living in Shrewsbury in 1901. Husband to Keziah Jones (nee Ince) (married in …

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Owen Jones

The Great War History Hub Whitchurch, shropshire - War dead missing image

Born in Llanfair-is-Gaer, Port Dinorwic, Caernarvonshire, Wales in 1897, the eldest son of Captain William and Mrs Margaret E Jones of 6 Velinheli Terrace, Port Dinorwic. Caernarvonshire, Wales. Owen was working at Lloyds Bank in Whitchurch, living in Shrewsbury when …

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Chester Chronicle 6 April 1918

Report in the Chester Chronicle 6th April 1918 regarding the death of John Thomas Jones “News was received from the War Office on Saturday that Captain John T. Jones had ‘died on March 28th, information to follow.’ The fact that …

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Chester Chronicle 30 December 1916

Report in the Chester Chronicle 30 December 1916 of the military wedding of John Thomas Jones and Lydia Ann Houghton “On Thursday a quiet wedding was solemnised at the Primitive Methodist Church, Ellesmere Port, the contracting parties being Captain and …

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George Jones

George Frederick Jones was born on Catteralls Lane, Whitchurch in 1894. George was the fourth son of Samuel and Kate Jones of 2 Smithy Cottages, Broughall, Whitchurch. Regiment : 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion Cheshire Regiment (Earl of Chester’s Battalion) Rank : …

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