Personal Details Born: 6 March 1901 in Fauls, Prees, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of seven children born to William Ridgway, a farm labourer, and his wife Sarah. He married Alexandra M Banks in 1922 in Market Drayton, Shropshire … 
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Personal Details Born: 7 April 1878 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of five sons born to Josiah Ridgway, a clockmaker, and Ann his wife. In 1912 Josiah married Ada Brown in Whitchurch and the following year their …
Personal Details Born: 15 Jul 1893 and baptised the following month at St. Alkmund’s Church, Whitchurch. Family: Elder of two sons born to Robert Duncan Sandland Ridgway, a carpenter and wheelwright, and his wife Annie. In June 1923 Clement married …
Personal Details Born: 1893. Family: William was brought up by the Gilbert family of Prees, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Civilian Occupation: He was a farm labourer. Died: His date of death is unknown. Other Information: His next of kin was his brother John. Military Details Regiment: …
The memorial is in St John’s Methodist Church, St John’s Street, Whitchurch. 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 …
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 panel containing the memorial was removed from the original Grammar School in Bargate, Whitchurch and now hangs in Sir John Talbot School, Tilstock Road, Whitchurch, the current secondary school. This is an ongoing project, information will be added …
If you have any photographs or information relating to the project please get in touch by leaving a comment below, using our Contact Form or by calling in to Whitchurch Heritage Centre. …
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 Whitchurch Herald 27th April 1918 regarding the death of Robert Hales Ridgway “Mr & Mrs Ridgway of Worthington Street have been informed that their son Robert Hales (Bert) Ridgway, Liverpool Scottish Regiment, has been killed in action …
Robert Hales Ridgway, born in Whitchurch in 1896, the second son of Robert and Mary Ridgway of 16 Worthington Street, Whitchurch. Regiment : 1/10th (Territorial) Battalion The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) Liverpool Scottish Rank : Private Service Number : 356308 Killed …