Personal Details Born: 1 July 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second child born to George Purcell, a railway platelayer and his wife Mary Ellen, nee Williams. No marriage can be found for him. Residence: In 1901 his … 
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Personal Details Born: In 1877 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised, with his sister Lucy, on 8 July the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the youngest of nine children born to William Purcell, a gardener, …
Personal Details Born: 20 October 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 9 February 1896 in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the third of six children born to Thomas John Hill Purcell, a tobacconist, hairdresser and newsagent, and …
Personal Details Born: 3 July 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 9 September the same year in St. Mary’s Church, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of six children born to Thomas John Hill Purcell, a tobacconist, hairdresser …
The memorial plaque is inside St Michael’s Church, Marbury. There is also a commemoration in the lych gate. This is an ongoing project, information will be added to the website over the coming weeks and months. It is hoped …
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 …
Miss Annie Jane PurcellOf 3 Fox’s Lane, Broughall, Whitchurch, SalopWashed up at V.A.D. Hospital, Shropshire 26, Broughall, Whitchurch, SalopFrom 00/11/1917 to 00/11/1918
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 George Purcell was born in Marbury, Cheshire in 1885 (baptised 2nd August 1885), the third son of Thomas and the late Hannah Purcell of Hollin lane, Marbury, Cheshire. Regiment : 52nd Battalion Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), formerly Royal Welsh …
Harold Purcell was born in Broughall, Whitchurch in 1894. He was the eldest son of Mrs Martha Arrowsmith of 11, Waymills, Whitchurch. Harold was raised by his Grandmother (Mrs Mary Purcell) and lived at 9, New Street, (Mill Street) Whitchurch.