Personal Details Born: 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 29 June 1894 at St Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of seven surviving children born to Alfred Newbrook, a labourer and his wife Sarah Ann. No marriage … 
Personal Details Born: 17 September 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of seven surviving children born to Alfred Newbrook, a labourer, and his wife Sarah Ann, nee Lea. He married Edith Newbrook in 1921 in Whitchurch, Shropshire …
Personal Details Born: 16 February 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to John Newbrook, a fishmonger, and his wife Ellen. He married Edith Annie Mildred Millington in 1921 in Whitchurch. The couple had …
Personal Details Born: 14 November 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: Charles was the fourth of nine children born to John Newbrook, a blacksmith, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Mary Alice George in 1924. No children can be found for …
Personal Details Born: 18 March 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of five children born to Edward Newbrook, a labourer, and his wife Catherine, nee Salmon. Ernest was a bachelor. Residence: In 1901 his family were living …
Personal Details Born: In 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 21 March the same year at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the second of nine children born to John Newbrook and his wife Elizabeth. William was a …
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 memorial is in St John’s Methodist Church, St John’s Street, Whitchurch. 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 …
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 …
Ralph Drake Newbrook, born in Whitchurch in 1889, the eldest son of Joseph and Edith Newbrook. Husband of Dorothy Eleanor (nee Knight) Newbrook of Paris, Ontario, Canada. Ralph left for Canada on 1st March 1912 from Liverpool on the Virginian …
Report in the Whitchurch Herald 6th May 1916 on the death of Stanley Victor Newbrook Letter received by Mr & Mrs Newbrook; “It is with the deepest regret that I have to inform you that your son Sgt. Stanley Newbrook, …
Stanley Victor, born in Whitchurch in 1892, the second son of Joseph and Edith Newbrook of 9, Havana Buildings, Whitchurch. Stanley was a regular soldier stationed in Portland, Dorset in August 1914. He landed in France on the 11th August …
Report in the Whitchurch Herald 12th February 1916 on the death of John Newbrook Letter received by Mr & Mrs Newbrook; “Your son was killed with others of the regiment in the trenches by a shell which buried him and …
Born in Whitchurch in 1892; the eldest son of John and Elizabeth Newbrook of 43 Yardington, Whitchurch. The 1911 Census details John’s occupation as being an assistant butcher and living at 43c Newtown Street, Whitchurch. John was working as an …