Personal Details Born: 7 August 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and was baptised on 1 September that year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the youngest of six children born to John Shone, a chemist and grocer, and … 
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Personal Details Born: 17 June 1891 in Godstone, Surrey and was baptised on 25 July the same year in Godstone Parish Church. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to William Alexander Clarke, a solicitor, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 17 December 1882 in Brunel, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. Family: He was the third of four children born to Henry Percival and Rosa Helen Beckett. He married Madge Farrington in Whitchurch, Shropshire in 1906; no children can be …
Personal Details Born: 4 December 1885 in Whixall, Shropshire and baptised on 14 March 1886 in the Wesleyan-Methodist Chapel, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of seven children born to Charles Henry Williams, a coal merchant, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 7 August 1873 in Newhall, Cheshire. Family: He was the fourth of nine children born to William Young, a farmer, and his wife Elizabeth. He had four brothers, Thomas, William, Charles and Harold and four sisters, Elizabeth, …
Personal Details Born: 22 August 1892 in Bromyard, Herefordshire and baptised 23 February 1893 at Castlefields Wesleyan-Methodist Chapel in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Family: Third child of the Rev William Ovington Robinson and his wife Margaret H. No marriage or children can …
Personal Details Born: In 1881 Family: He married Katherine M Walker in 1921 in Darlington, Durham and together they had two children – Margaret R and Patricia E. Residence: The 1919 Absent Voters’ Register records his address as Deermoss House, …
The Military Cross is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and used to be awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries. The Military Cross is granted in recognition of …
Born in Pradesh, India in 1874, the second son of William and Mary Louisa Roche of Mount View, Alkington Road, Whitchurch. Husband of Dorothy (nee Hatton) Roche, of Exeter, Devon and father of Thomas William. Thomas was a Farmer in …
The Rev Richard William Dugdale MC CF, born in Salisbury, Wiltshire in 1889, the second son of The Rev Sidney and his first wife Edith Dugdale of The Rectory, Whitchurch. Richard attended Rugby School; after leaving Rugby in 1908 he …
John Thomas Jones, born in Whitchurch in 1883, the second son of William and Winifred Jones. Husband of Lydia Ann (nee Houghton) Jones of 20 Station Road, Whitchurch. John was on the staff of the General Manager of the Shropshire …
Walter Hugh Godsal was born in Sturminster Marshall, Dorset on 31st March 1883 (baptised 1st May 1883), the third son of Major Philip Thomas and Mrs Ellen Henrietta Godsal of Iscoyd Park, Whitchurch, Shropshire. After attending Eton College, he left …