Personal Details Born: 17 June 1891 in Godstone, Surrey and was baptised on 25 July the same year in Godstone Parish Church. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to William Alexander Clarke, a solicitor, and his wife … 
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Personal Details Born: 14 April 1879 in Tarporley, Cheshire. Family: He was the fourth of eight children born to Robert Hughes, a joiner, and his wife Catherine. He married Mabel Catherine Roberts on 27 January 1912 in Bangor, Caernarvonshire, Wales …
Personal Details Born: 3 May 1893 in Richard’s Castle, Herefordshire and baptised on 8 August 1893 in the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Ludlow, Shropshire. Family: He was the younger of two children born to William Jones, a blacksmith, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 10 May 1892 in Saltcoats, Ayrshire, Scotland. Family: He was the sixth child born to John Docherty, a laboratory technician & his wife Elizabeth. He married Florence May Portar on 20 May 1918 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. They …
Personal Details Born: 25 November 1890 in Loppington, Shropshire and baptised 28 December 1890 at Loppington Parish Church. Family: He was the younger of two sons born to William Davies, a schoolmaster and his wife Annie. He married Martha Bedford …
Personal Details Born: 11 November 1887 in Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, Wales. Family: He married Bella Furnival on 15 December 1905 at St John`s Wesleyan Chapel, Whitchurch, Shropshire. The couple had seven children, William Frederick, Arthur, George Henry, Herbert Hugh, Ivor Edward, …
Personal Details Born: In 1892 in Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire. Family: He was the eldest of five children born to Robert Owen, a butcher, and his wife Frances Sarah, nee Duffy. Robert senior was previously married to Elizabeth and together …
Personal Details Born: 1888, in Atcham, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of five children born to Thomas Woodvine, a railway foreman carter and his wife Anne. He married Hetty Arnold in 1919 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. The couple had two …
Personal Details Born: 8 September 1879 (1939 Register has date of birth as 28 September) in Louth, Lincolnshire and baptised 18 January 1885 at St Michael`s Parish Church, Louth. Family: He was the fourth of eleven children born to Ephraim Wilson, …
Personal Details Born: 6 January 1876 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 6 February the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of six children born to Richard Pearson, a bank clerk, and his …
Personal Details Born: 1 July 1883 in Pattingham, Staffordshire and baptised on 2 August 1883 at Pattingham Parish Church, Staffordshire. Family: He was the third of four children born to the Rev John Prittie O`Connor, a clerk in Holy Orders, …
Personal Details Born: 20 October 1888, birth registered in Whitchurch. Family: Third of nine children born to Richard and Fanny Rogers. In late 1916 Thomas married Winifred Challoner in Whitchurch, Shropshire and together they had four children, Dorothy H, Winifred …
Personal Details Born: 1880 in Tilstock, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the only child born to Thomas Lucas, a railway clerk, and his wife Harriet, nee Henshall. He married Elizabeth Smith on 12 December 1908 at St Mary`s Church, Stafford, …
Personal Details Born: 1876 in Whitchurch, Shropshire Family: He was the second child of Thomas and Martha Wainwright and had four brothers George, Thomas, James and Jack and one sister Martha. He married Rose Hannah Griffith in Whitchurch in 1905. The 1911 census lists …
Personal Details Born: 1889 in Clun, Shropshire and baptised on 8 September 1889 at Wentnor Parish Church, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of eight children born to Joseph Yapp, a farm labourer, and his wife Sarah. He married Kathleen …
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: In 1881 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He married Emily Allen in 1904 in Chorlton, Lancashire and together they had one child, William. Residence: In 1911 he was living at 24 Dane Road, Sale, Cheshire; in 1914 he …
Personal Details Born: 21 April 1897 in Tilstock, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to Arthur Horton, a bricklayer, and his wife Mary Hannah. He married Mary Elizabeth May Giles in 1936 in Wallasey, Cheshire and …
Personal Details Born: 3 April 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 17 April 1896 in St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was one of six surviving children born to Arthur Edwards, a railway platelayer and his wife, Harriet. He …
Personal Details Born: 7 September 1881 in Holywell, Flintshire and baptised with his twin sister Alice on 9 September 1881 at Pontblyddyn Parish Church, Flintshire. Family: He was one of seven children born to John Charles Knight, a butler, and …
Personal Details Born: 6 October 1893 in Prenton, Cheshire. Family: He was the eldest of two children born to George and Eliza Pappin. He married Dorothy Victoria Purkiss on 26 December 1925 in Bombay, India and together they had one …
Personal Details Born: 3 January 1881 in Kilrush, Clare, Ireland. Family: The 1881 and 1891 Irish census records were destroyed in WW1, so research has been unable to identify his parents. He married Frances Ann McCarthy in 1907 in Pembrokeshire, Wales. …
Personal Details Born: 16 June 1887, Whitchurch Shropshire and baptised 3 July at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church. Family: He was the second of five children born to William Groom, a blacksmith, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Lillian M. Green, …
Personal Details Born: 26 June 1880 in Bridgnorth, Shropshire and baptised on 25 July in the same year in Worfield, Shropshire. Family: He was the only child of George Hayward, a brewer’s drayman, and his wife Mary Ann. He married …
Personal Details Born: 16 February 1896 in Hengoed, Shropshire and baptised 25 June 1896 at Hengoed Parish Church. Family: He was the third of eight children born to William Gosnell, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Alice Spender Quarter …
Personal Details Born: 15 July 1885 in Birkenhead, Cheshire and baptised 27 September 1885 in Malpas, Cheshire. Family: He was the second of three children born to Robert Bebbington, a shoemaker, and his wife Annie Bebbington. Walter married Annie Garner …
Personal Details Born Not known Family: Not known Residence: At the time of the Spring 1919 Absent Voters list for Whitchurch, Shropshire, Neville`s address was given as 43 Newtown, Whitchurch. Employment: Not known Died: Not known Military Details Regiment: Royal …
Personal Details Born: 1 April 1880 in Upper Whitley, Huddersfield, Yorkshire and baptised on 1 May 1880 at St. John the Evangelist Parish Church, Lepton, Yorkshire. Family: He was the second of three children born to James Boynton, a coachman, …
Personal Details Born: 14 May 1885 and baptised at Wesleyan Methodist Church, Whitchurch on 7 June. Family: Fifth of seven children born to Josiah Rowlands and Ann Lydia Crosse. In 1912 Archibald married Florence E Jackson in Walsall and they …
Personal Details Born: In Stroud Green, Hornsey, London in 1885. Family: He was the first of 5 children born to Robert Jones Beddoe, a mechanical engineer, and his wife Minnie (nee Hatfield). His siblings were Helen, Edith, Hubert and Arthur. In …
Personal Details Born: 1883 and baptised 23rd May 1883 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of ten children born to Harry Bennion, a grocer, and his wife Margaret Ellen (nee Baker). He married Annie Stockton Quarter 3 1918 …
Personal Details Born: Born 30 March 1891 and baptised 7 June 1891. Also recorded with surname Caswell. Family: Eldest of six children born to John and Jane Caswell. In November 1912 he married Beatrice Speake in Whitchurch, Shropshire and during …
Personal Details Born: 29 November 1881. Family: The second son of William and Ann Stockton of Smallbrook Buildings, West End, Whitchurch, Shropshire. He married Ada Jones on the 14 February 1906 and was father to Louisa, Nellie, Beatrice, William and Elsie. Residence: After the …
Personal Details Born: 19 August 1893 (baptised 10 September 1893) Family: The first son of Henry Samuel and Martha Frances Blantern Mainwaring of Heath Lodge, Heath Road, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Henry married Hanna Bertha Evans in December 1922 and together they had 3 daughters …
Personal Details Born: 21 August 1898. Family: The third son of William and Annie Lister of Steele Heath, Prees, Whitchurch, Shropshire. William married Mary Ellen Herriman in 1920 and together they had 3 children – Joseph W, Edna M and Percy A. Civilian …
Personal Details Born: 11 May 1887. Family: The fourth son of Samuel and Hannah France of Higher Heath, Prees, Shropshire. Herbert married Alice Ridgway in 1923 and they had 2 children together – Marjorie J and William H. Civilian Occupation: Herbert was a …
Born in Aston, Staffordshire in 1887. Husband to Edith Clewes (nee Edgerton) of Middle Morrey Cottage, Shavington, Market Drayton, Shropshire and father to Gladys Mary, Elsie, Frances Edna, Phyllis H M and Edith A Frank was a farm labourer before …
Born in High Street, Whitchurch in 1898, he was the third son of Richard and Rachel Sharps of the Dairy House, Park Avenue, Whitchurch. Richard was working in the Family Business (Sharps Butchers High Street) before joining the Army in …
Clive Richard Barber, born in Wombridge, Shropshire in 1897, the only son of Thomas and Winifred Barber of Dairy Cottage, Park Avenue, Whitchurch. Regiment : 225th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery Rank : Sergeant Service Number : 106199 Died of …
John Henry Elsley, born in Yardington, Whitchurch in 1894, the eldest son of John and Eunice Elsley of 30, Yardington, Whitchurch. John worked in an Ironmongers shop before he enlisted in December 1915 and was discharged on the 25th September …
Walter Dilworth Sutton was born in Wrenbury, Cheshire on 14 July 1895, the eldest son of Arthur and the late Elizabeth A Sutton of Rose Cottage, Wrenbury, Nantwich, Cheshire. Walter joined the London & North Western Railway on 30 November …
Born in Stoak, Cheshire in 1891, the third son of the late John Davies and the late Hannah Davies of Edge Grange, Malpas, Cheshire. Arthur worked on his father’s farm. He died from gas shell poisoning. Regiment : 99th Siege …
Born in Whixall, Whitchurch, Shropshire in 1880, the eldest son of the late Joseph and the late Jane Bayley of Whixall. William is shown as William Bailey on the Whixall Memorial. Husband to Sarah Jane Bayley (nee Heath) (married 5 …
Born in Threapwood, Malpas, Cheshire in 1887, the eldest son of James and Mary Mort of Greaves Lane East, Threapwood, Malpas, Cheshire. Husband to Edith Ellen Mort (nee Jones) (married on 4th February 1913) of Sunnyside, Chorlton Lane, Malpas, Cheshire. …
Born in Malpas, Cheshire in 1887, the second son of the late John and Margaret McMichael of Ivy Cottage, Old Hall Street, Malpas, Cheshire. John declared his occupation as a carpenter on enlisting in 1915. Regiment : 119th Siege Battery …
Alfred John Parker was born in Nantwich, Cheshire in 1885, the eldest son of the late John and Eliza Parker of 60 Pillory Street, Nantwich, Cheshire. Husband of Eva Mary Parker of 1 The Barony, Nantwich, Cheshire and father of …
Cyril Cedric Roles was born in Whitchurch in 1892. He was the second son of Peter and Jane Roles of Castle Hill, Whitchurch. Cyril enrolled under the name of George Hunt, Hunt being his mother’s maiden name. There is very …