William Roberts

Personal Details Born: 29 April 1889 in Moreton Say, Shropshire and baptised on 26 May 1889 in Moreton Say Parish Church. Family: He was one of six surviving children born to Henry Roberts, an agricultural worker and his wife Martha. …

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William John Roberts

Personal Details Born: c.1889 in the Oswestry area of Shropshire. Family: One of six children born to John and Elizabeth Roberts. Residence: In 1901 the family were living at Greenfield Cottages in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Ten years later the address of …

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George Henry Roberts

Personal Details Born: 12 June 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 6 September the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the fourth of five children born to Alfred Roberts, a cornfactor grocer, and his …

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Thomas Roberts

Personal Details Born: 20 April 1894 in Moreton Saye, Market Drayton, Shropshire. Family: He was the fifth of six surviving children born to Henry Roberts, a stockman on a farm, and his wife Martha. He married Dora Vaughan in 1920 …

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Ernest Roberts

Personal Details Born: 6 March 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 29 March at St Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: Son of James and Sarah Roberts and grandson of John and Martha Prodger. In 1926 he married Lucy Purcell in …

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George Frederick Roberts

Royal Air Force

Personal Details Born: 14 September 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: George Frederick was the 4th of seven children born to Joseph and Lucy Roberts. On 15 September 1917 George married Agnes Jackson in Whitchurch, a month before enlisting. Together the …

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Joseph Edgar Roberts

Royal Engineers

Personal Details Born: Joseph Edgar Roberts was born during the last quarter of 1890. He was baptised at St Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch on March 4th 1891. Family: He was the fifth and youngest child of Alfred and Mary Alice …

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Joseph Arthur Roberts

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: During the last quarter of 1895 and baptised at St Alkmund’s Parish Church on 4 December that year. Family: Eldest of six surviving children born to Joseph and Lucy Roberts. In early 1921 he married Hilda Whitfield …

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Herbert Roberts

Grenadier Guards

Personal Details Born: 14th November 1891 in Oswestry, Shropshire. Family: Herbert was the youngest, probably of four children, born to John and Elizabeth Roberts.  In 1920 he married Ethel Brereton at Nantwich, Cheshire. They went on to have seven children …

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Herbert Roberts

Royal Army Service Corps

Personal Details Born: 3 November 1887. Family: The fifth child of George and Elizabeth Roberts of 20 Claypit Street, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Herbert married Ethel Brereton in 1920. Civilian Occupation: He was employed as a postman and appears to have also had a part time …

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Coton Memorial

  The memorial is inside Coton Methodist Chapel, Shropshire. 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 …

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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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Whitchurch Herald 31st August 1918

Report in the Whitchurch Herald 31st August 1918 of a letter received by Mr. and Mrs. Roberts regarding the death of their son, Alfred Darlington Roberts “I am exceedingly sorry to have to write to inform you of the death …

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Whitchurch Herald 31st March 1917

Report in the Whitchurch Herald 31st March 1917 regarding the death of Arthur Roberts Letter of condolence sent by his Commanding Officer, Chaplain and Platoon Sgt; “Private Roberts proved himself a good soldier, who will be greatly missed by his …

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Enlisted January 1915

Mechanical Transport Drivers – William John Dodsworth & John Henry Williams Horse Transport Transport Drivers – William A. Kilgarriff, Herbert Roberts, John Hayward, William Arthur Dawson, Alfred Fowles, George Fowles, Arthur Chidlow & Thomas Stockton