Walter Price

Grenadier Guards

Personal Details Born: 18 May 1897 in Ellesmere, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of at least four children born to Edward Price, a coachman and his wife Mary Jane, nee Humphries. He married Mary E Cutler in 1929 in …

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John James Price

Royal Fusiliers

Personal Details Born: 14 July 1894 in Halghton, Hanmer, Flintshire, Wales and baptised on 16 September the same year in Hanmer Parish Church. Family: He was the younger of two children born to William Price, a joiner, and his wife …

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William Segrove Price

Personal Details Born: 20 September 1890 in Bronington, Flintshire, Wales and baptised on 19 October the same year in Hanmer Parish Church. Family: He was the elder of two children born to William Price, a joiner, and his wife Emily, …

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Samuel Price

Royal Field Artillery

Personal Details Born: 20 December 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of five children born to Samuel Price, a labourer, and his wife Frances. He married Gertrude Davies in 1920 in Whitchurch and together they had a …

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St Alkmund’s Church Memorial

St Alkmunds Memorial

    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 …

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Campaign Medals 2

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 …

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Whitchurch Memorial

War Memorial - Whitchurch, Shropshire

  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 …

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George Price

The Great War History Hub Whitchurch, shropshire - War dead missing image

George William Price, born in Waymills, Whitchurch in 1887, the eldest son of Samuel and Frances Price. Husband of Amy (nee Reynolds) Price, of 3, Newtown Street, Whitchurch, father of John. George worked as a Groom before joining the Army.