Personal Details Born: 26 October 1884 in Gredington, Flintshire, Wales. Family: Military records for an Ernest Phillips (4147 King’s Shropshire Light Infantry) identify an address of 10 Dodington, Whitchurch at which a Phillips family were living in 1891 and 1901; …
Personal Details Born: Not known Family: Not known Residence: The 1919 Absent Voters’ Register records an address of 3 Smallbrook Buildings, Whitchurch for him; no other connection to this address or any other address can be identified. Employment: Not known …
Personal Details Born: 11 May 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 10 December the same year in St. Alkmund’s Church. Family: He was the third of ten children born to John Phillips, a general labourer, and his wife Annie. …
Personal Details Born: 26 August 1889 in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to George Phillips, a head gardener, and his wife Annie. He married Emily Eaton in Whitchurch, Shropshire in 1930; we cannot …
Personal Details Born: 11 August 1897 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fifth of ten children born to John Phillips, a general labourer, and his wife Annie. He married Janet L L Hartshorn in 1920 in Walsall, Staffordshire and …
Personal Details Born: 9 January 1888. Family: The first child of George and Mary Phillips of Field House, Wigland, Cheshire. Civilian Occupation: Domestic gardener Residence: In 1939 he lived at The Bothy, Blithfield Gardens, Rugeley, Staffordshire. Died: On 28 January 1956 aged 68. Other …
The memorial is by the roadside in Tallarn Green. 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 …
The memorial is in the Scout Hut in Horsemans Green. It was relocated from the Wesleyan Chapel in the village when this was sold to be converted into a private house. This is an ongoing project, information will be …
The memorial is outside St Oswald’s Church, Malpas. 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 …
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 …
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 …
Report in the Liverpool Daily Post 21st July 1916 regarding the death of Arthur Phillips “Inspector A. Phillips, a well-known police officer in the New Brighton district for several years, has been killed. He was thirty-five years of age and …
George Frederick Phillips (known as Fred) was born in Brymbo, Denbighshire, Wales in 1893, the eldest son of George and May Phillips of The Shop, Horseman’s Green, Whitchurch, Shropshire. The 1911 Census shows Fred working in his father’s bakery and …
William Arthur Phillips was born in Wigland, Malpas, Cheshire in 1895, the second son of George and May Phillips of The Shop, Horseman’s Green, Whitchurch, Shropshire. The 1911 Census shows William working in his father’s bakery and shop. William’s elder …
Born in Malpas, Cheshire in 1881 (baptised 3rd April 1881), the eldest son of the late James Phillips and Ann Phillips of Edge, Malpas, Cheshire. Husband to Mary Bebb Phillips (nee Ryder) (married 1904) of 108 Salisbury Road, Wavertree, Liverpool, …
Report in the Whitchurch Herald 2nd February 1916 on the death of John Phillips Letter received by Mr & Mrs Phillips; “I am writing these few lines which are a very painful duty for me to perform, as I regret …
John was born in Whixall, Shropshire in 1895, the eldest son of John and Edith Phillips of No Man’s Heath, Malpas, Cheshire. John worked as a Groom before enlisting in August 1914, landing in France on the 22nd June 1915.