Personal Details Born: 23 September 1885 in Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales. Family: He was the second of eleven children born to Jonathan Benbow, a tailor and his wife Margaret. He married Emily Rudge 13 December 1915 at the Church of St … 
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Personal Details Born: 6 October 1879 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 12 November the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the sixth of eight surviving children of Joseph Edge, a general labourer, and his wife Sarah. …
Personal Details Born: Quarter 1 1887 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 1 February that year at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of six children born to Charles Fowles, a tanner, and his wife Susannah. …
Personal Details Born: 24 July 1889 and baptised 11 September at St Alkmund’s church the same year. Family: Youngest of four children born to John and Mary Cooper. In the 1911 census Albert was listed as married. Confusingly, army records …
Personal Details Born: 15 April 1896. Family: The seventh child of Evan and Sarah Edwards. When Walter was baptised on 26 April 1896 the family were living at Fenn’s Bank Brick & Tile Works, Bronington, Flintshire. The 1901 Census shows them living …
Personal Details Born: March 1865 Family: The eldest son of Edwin and Ann Day of Yardington Street, Whitchurch, Shropshire. William married Emily Brookshaw on 15 December 1889. Residence: In 1891 William was living in Newton, Whitchurch. By 1901 he had moved back …
Born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire in 1891, the second son of James and Mary Ann Walley of 42 New Park Road, Castlefields, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Husband to Alice Louie Walley (nee Bowdler) (married 4th July 1915) of 28 West Road, Congleton, Cheshire. …
Born in Wrenbury, Cheshire in 1897, the fourth son of the late Thomas and Emily Stevenson of 85 Chapel Lane, Coppenhall, Warmingham, Crewe, Cheshire. The 1911 Census shows him as a farm helper. Regiment : 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade Rank …