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 …
Letter in the Whitchurch Herald 29th July 1916 on the death of Richard John Edge Rycroft “Dear Madam, I regret to have to write and inform you that your husband was brought into this Hospital seriously wounded during the night …
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 …
Richard John Edge Rycroft was born in Isycoed, Flintshire in 1881. Richard was the eldest son of Oswald and Elizabeth Rycroft. Richard was the husband of Cecilia Ann (nee Hewitt) Rycroft of Ossmere Cottages, Whitchurch; he was the father of …