Personal Details Born: 1887 in Market Drayton, Shropshire. Family: He was the elder of two children born to Frederick Edward Smith and his wife Hannah, nee Bennett. He married Mary Bate on 7 June 1908 in Market Drayton, Shropshire. The … 
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Personal Details Born: 19 September 1893 in Wem, Shropshire and baptised on 8 October the same year in the Wem Methodist Chapel. Family: He was the eldest of six children born to Joseph Smith, a carter, and his wife Leah. …
Personal Details Born: 10 January 1882 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 10 February the same year at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of seven children born to Wiliam Smith, a school master, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 1884 Family: The third child of Joseph and Emma Smith of Claypit Street, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Joseph married Martha Jane Wainwright in 1903 and together they had 6 children – Martha, Annie, Joseph, Emma, Mary and Thomas. Civilian Occupation: He was a …
The memorial is outside St. John the Baptist Church, Bettisfield. There is also a plaque inside the Village Hall, Bettisfield. This is an ongoing project, information will be added to the website over the coming weeks and months. It …
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 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 …
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 …
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 24th August 1918 of a letter received by Mr and Mrs Smith regarding the death of their son, James Glendenning Smith “Mr & Mrs Anthony Smith of Oddfellows Terrace, Whitchurch, have received news of the …
James Glendenning Smith was born in Leamington, Warwickshire in 1894, the only son of Anthony and Alice Smith of 10 Smallbrook Road, Whitchurch. Regiment : 1/4th (Territorial) Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry Rank : Private Service Number : 200771 Died …
Joseph Henry Smith born in Wem, Shropshire in 1886, the second son of Thomas and Sarah Smith of Wood Cottage, Bettisfield, Flintshire, Wales. Joseph left home in his early teens; the 1901 Census shows him living in Wem, Shropshire as …