Personal Details Born: In 1892 in Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire. Family: He was the eldest of five children born to Robert Owen, a butcher, and his wife Frances Sarah, nee Duffy. Robert senior was previously married to Elizabeth and together … 
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Personal Details Born: 25 January 1897 in Southport, Lancashire. Family: He was the second of five children born to Robert Owen, a butcher and his wife Frances Sarah, nee Duffy. He had a twin brother, Alfred. His father Robert had …
Personal Details Born: 25 January 1897 in Southport, Lancashire. Family: He was the second of five children born to Robert Owen, a butcher and his wife Frances Sarah, nee Duffy. He had a twin brother David. His father Robert had …
Personal Details Born: 4 December 1894. Family: The only son of Thomas Daniel and Martha Owen of 9 Egerton Road, Whitchurch, Shropshire. John married Margaret A Gibbons in 1926 and our research suggests they had a daughter, Margaret A. Civilian Occupation: He was employed …
The memorial is outside St Chad’s Church, Hanmer. 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 …
Report on the death of Philip Charles Owen in De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour 1914 – 1919 “OWEN, PHILIP CHARLES, 2nd Lieut., 9th (Service) Battn. The King’s (Shropshire Light Infantry), s. of the Rev. Loftus Meade Owen, Rector of Stockton, …
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 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 …
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 …
William was born in Shrewsbury in 1878, the fourth son of John and Anne Owen. Husband of Annie Elizabeth Ellen (nee Jones) Owen, of 11, High Street, Whitchurch and Father of Geoffrey. William was the Manager of Wyles Shoe Shop, …
Report in the Nantwich Guardian 8 November 1918 regarding the death of Wilfrid Owen “Much sympathy is expressed with Mr. Harry Owen and family in the bereavement which they have sustained by the death from pneumonia of their son, Mr. …
Philip Charles Owen was born in Ellesmere, Shropshire on 1 May 1897, the second son of Rev Loftus Meade Owen and Mrs Amy Frances Owen of The Rectory, Stockton, Shifnal, Shropshire. Philip’s father was vicar of St Chad’s Church, Hanmer, …