Personal Details Born: 6 June 1893 in Preston, Lancashire. Family: He was the youngest of five children born to Thomas Nuttall Oulton, a farmer, and his wife Mary, nee Sheen. No definite marriage can be located for Frank. Residence: In …
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 …
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 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 …
Douglas Arthur Oulton, born in Eaton, Cheshire in 1892, the third son of Thomas and Mary Oulton of Fields Farm, Lower Peover, Cheshire. Douglas was living in Tarporley Road, Whitchurch and was working as a clerk in the local Iron …