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 …
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 Wellington Journal & Shrewsbury News April 1916. A letter from the Chaplain to Mrs Speakes on the death of her husband, George Speakes. “Dear Mrs Speaks, It is with great sympathy that I write to you about …
George was born in Whitchurch in 1882, the eldest son of Thomas and Elizabeth Speakes. Husband of Sarah Ann (nee Fowles) Speakes of 2, Grooms Yard, Watergate Street, Whitchurch, father of George, Frank and Frederick. George worked as a Farm …