Personal Details Born: 12 September 1879 in Wrockwardine Wood, Shropshire, and baptised on 5 October the same year in Wrockwardine Parish Church. Family: He was the son of Joseph Maddocks, a publican, and his wife Harriett. He married Nellie Mealand … 
Personal Details Born: 3 January 1864 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 9 March in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the seventh of eight children born to Thomas Maddocks, a gardener, and his wife Emma. He married …
Personal Details Born: 24 July 1876 in Bangor, Flintshire, Wales and baptised on 27 August the same year in Worthenbury Parish Church, Flintshire. Family: He was the second of nine children born to Samuel Redropp Maddocks, a farmer, and his …
Personal Details Born: 27 August 1882 in Maidstone, Kent. He was also known by the name Maddocks. Family: He was the son of Thomas Butler Maddock, a publican, and his wife, Martha. He married Louisa Ballinger on 30 April 1908 …
The memorial plaque is inside St Michael’s Church, Marbury. There is also a commemoration in the lych gate. This is an ongoing project, information will be added to the website over the coming weeks and months. It is hoped …
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 …
Article in the Wellington Journal & Shrewsbury News 26th January 1918 regarding the whereabouts of John Maddocks “Any information respecting the whereabouts of Private John Maddocks (235082) Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who has been missing since December 3rd 1917, any news …
Born in Gauntons Bank, Norbury, Cheshire in 1892 the fourth son of Thomas and Annie Maddocks. Husband of Sarah (nee Roberts) Maddocks of Mount Farm Cottage, Chester Road, Whitchurch, father of Esme and Annie. John was working as a farm …
Born in Norbury, Cheshire in 1894 and living in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, the fifth son of Thomas Maddocks and the late Annie Maddocks of Mount Free Cottage, Tarporley Road, Whitchurch, Shropshire. The 1911 Census shows Thomas as an agricultural labourer. Thomas’s …
Born in Norbury, Cheshire in 1889, the third son of Thomas Maddocks and the late Annie Maddocks of Mount Farm Cottage, Tarporley Road, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Joseph’s three brothers William, John and Thomas all lost their lives in the Great War.
Born in Norbury, Cheshire in September or October 1887, the second son of Thomas Maddocks and the late Annie Maddocks of Mount Farm Cottage, Tarporley Road, Whitchurch, Shropshire. William was a labourer before enlisting in 1907. William’s three brothers Joseph, …