Personal Details Born: 10 September 1878 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 9 October the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the fourth of seven children born to Richard Pearson, a bank manager, and his … 
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Personal Details Born: 6 January 1876 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 6 February the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of six children born to Richard Pearson, a bank clerk, and his …
Personal Details Born: 18 July 1896 in Whitchurch Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to Thomas H Pearson, an auctioneer, and his wife Annie, nee Burgess. He married Lucy M Newey in 1933 in Stratford on …
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 …
Miss Emily PearsonOf Dodington, Whitchurch, SalopServed at V.A.D. Hospital, Shropshire 26, Broughall, Whitchurch, SalopFrom 00/08/1917 to 03/03/1919
Miss Agnes PearsonOf Dodington, Whitchurch, SalopServed at V.A.D. Hospital, Shropshire 26, Broughall, Whitchurch, SalopFrom 28/01/1915 to 03/03/1919
Miss Ada PearsonOf Edgeley Road, Whitchurch, SalopServed at V.A.D. Hospital, Shropshire 26, Broughall, Whitchurch, SalopFrom 28/01/1915 to 03/03/1919
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 …
Report on the death of Frederick Phillips Pearson of Whitchurch, Shropshire in De Ruvigny’s Rollof Honour 1914-918 His Lieutenant wrote; “A shell came over which did not explode but crashed in a dugout burying two men, one of which was …
Frederick Phillips Pearson was born in Liverpool in 1880, the fourth son of Edward and Maria Pearson of 48 Edgeley Road, Whitchurch. Frederick had served with the Cheshire Regiment in South Africa, and was awarded the Queens Medal with 3 …