Personal Details Born: 11 April 1870 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 8 June the same year at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of nine children born to William Venables, a grocer and his wife, Sarah … 
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Personal Details Born: 19 October 1897. Family: The fifth child of Samuel Hughes and Sarah Jane Venables of Glendale House, 34 Talbot Street, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Brother of Harry Venables who died of illness 15 November 1918 and is commemorated on the Whitchurch …
The memorial is in the lych gate to St. Peter’s Church, Aston. 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 …
The memorial is in St John’s Methodist Church, St John’s Street, Whitchurch. 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 …
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 Whitchurch Herald 23rd November 1918 of the death of Harry Jack Venables “Venables: On November 15th at the General East Suffolk Hospital, of Pneumonia, following Influenza, Harry Jack, the dearly loved eldest son of Sarah Jane Venables, …
Harry Jack Venables, born in High Street, Whitchurch in 1894, the eldest son of Samuel and Sarah Jane Venables, of 34, Talbot Street, Whitchurch. Harry was married to Sarah Jane. He worked as a Cheese Factor’s Clerk before enlisting on …
Wilfred James Venables was born at Kempley Farm, Ightfield, Whitchurch, Shropshire in 1897, the fourth son of the late James and the late Susannah Venables of the same address. Wilfred’s parents both died in 1910, and he and his three …