Personal Details Born: 24 November 1897 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of seven children born to John Speed, a builder’s labourer, and his wife Martha. He married Ada E Davis in 1918 in Braintree, Essex and together … 
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Personal Details Born: In 1872 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 5 June the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of four children of John Speed, a hairdresser, and his wife Mary Ann, nee …
Personal Details Born: 29 September 1882 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 25 December the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the fifth of seven children of Henry Speed, a stone breaker, and his wife Jane. He …
Personal Details Born: 22 December 1875 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of eight children born to Ernest Speed, a labourer, and his wife Jane. He married Martha Simpson on 22 August 1896 in the Unitarian Church, Whitchurch …
The memorial is in the lych-gate of St Wenefrede’s Church, Bickley. 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 …
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 …
Born in Bickley, Cheshire in 1890, the third son of Joseph and Sarah Ann Speed of the Snab Farm, Norbury, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Husband to Louisa Grace Speed (nee Sutherland) of 27 Wesley Street, Liverpool. Ernest and Louisa married in Liverpool …