Personal Details Born: In 1893 in Norbury, Cheshire and baptised Joseph William on 5 November the same year in Marbury Parish Church, Cheshire. He was also known as William Joseph Williams. Family: He was the son of Joseph Williams, a … 
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Personal Details Born: 17 May 1893, either in Whitchurch, Shropshire or Nantwich, Cheshire. Family: He was possibly the son of Daniel Williams and his wife Jane (nee Pilbury) of Nantwich. He married Margaret E Starkey for the first time in …
Personal Details Born: 27 January 1892 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 28 February the same year at the Unitarian Church in Highgate, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of four surviving children born to Henry and Elizabeth Williams. No marriage …
Personal Details Born: In 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 8 May the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. He was known as Jack. Family: He was the second of three children born to James Williams, a …
Personal Details Born: 15 July 1880 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 13 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the sixth of eight children born to James Williams, a carter, and his wife Harriet. No …
Personal Details Born: In 1895 in Norbury, Cheshire and baptised in Marbury Parish Church on 31 July the same year. Family: He was the second of six children born to Joseph Williams, a labourer, and his wife Emily. No marriage …
Personal Details Born: 31 August 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 19 September 1896 in St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to Richard William Williams, a baker and confectioner, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 20 March 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of three children born to Richard William Williams, a baker and confectioner and his wife Elizabeth. He married Lucy Edith Attwood in 1925 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. …
Personal Details Born: 21 July 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 31 July the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the elder of two children born to John Williams, a general labourer, and his …
Personal Details Born: 21 June 1897 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the younger of two children born to John Williams, a labourer, and his wife Alice. He married Dorothy Bowdler on 24 December 1925 in Malinslee, Shropshire and together …
Personal Details Born: 4 December 1885 in Whixall, Shropshire and baptised on 14 March 1886 in the Wesleyan-Methodist Chapel, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of seven children born to Charles Henry Williams, a coal merchant, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 25 July 1880 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 13 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of four children born to John Williams, a gardener, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: In 1897 in Norbury, Cheshire and baptised on 30 April the same year in Marbury Parish Church. Family: He was the second of five children born to Joseph Williams, a farm labourer, and his wife Emily. He …
Personal Details Born: In 1869 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 8 October the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the second of seven children born to James Williams, a carter, and his wife Harriett …
Personal Details Born: 28 May 1873 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 27 June the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of eight children born to Elias Williams, a domestic coachman, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: Born in Bettisfield, Flintshire, Wales on 27 April 1895. Family: The son of Charles and Fanny Williams of Moss Farm, Bronington, Flintshire, Wales. He married Vera Aspa Coates in 1920. Civilian Occupation: He worked in a brickyard when he enlisted; …
Personal Details Born: 26 June 1881. Family: The second son of John and Sarah Williams of 8 St John’s Street, Whitchurch, Shropshire. He married Sarah Edwards in 1918 and was father to John, Kathleen and Eileen M. Civilian Occupation: He was a bricklayer. …
Personal Details Born: 17 June 1897. Family: The third son of James and Mary Elizabeth Williams of 5 Railway Inn Yard, Station Road, Whitchurch, Shropshire. On the 17 December 1921 he married Elizabeth Clewlow and was father to Frederick, Vera and Derek …
Personal Details Born: 12 May 1891. Family: The first child of Thomas and Martha Williams of 122 Wrexham Road, Whitchurch, Shropshire. He married Beatrice E James on the 2 October 1918 who was living at 126 Shawbury Road, Shawbury, Shropshire. Civilian Occupation: In 1911 he …
Personal Details Born: 22 March 1887. Family: The fifth child of Henry and Emma Williams of 35 Yardington Street, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Civilian Occupation: Prior to the war he was employed by Wyatt Bros as a boiler maker’s assistant. Died: In 1956 aged …
The memorial is outside St Chad’s Church, Tushingham. 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 beyond will get …
The memorial is outside St Chad’s Church, Prees, with a plaque inside the church. 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 …
The memorial is in the Scout Hut in Horsemans Green. It was relocated from the Wesleyan Chapel in the village when this was sold to be converted into a private house. This is an ongoing project, information will be …
The memorial is outside St Chad’s Church, Hanmer. 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 beyond will get …
The memorial is in Lower Heath School, which is on the B5065 in Lower Heath, Prees, Shropshire. The Memorial was donated anonymously in 1919, the donor expressing the wish ‘that it should be placed in a prominent position, as …
The memorial is in the churchyard of Holy Immanuel Church, Fauls Green. There is also a plaque inside the Church commemorating the same men. A memorial to Jack Mullins can be found inside the Church. The Commonwealth War Grave …
This page from the Rectory Visitors Book is dated 23rd March 1915. It records the names, ranks and regiments of soldiers who were patients at Broughall Cottage VAD Hospital. …
Peat working was apparently a reserved occupation during WW1 so why were these women employed ? Who were they and where did they stay?
The memorial is on the A495 on the Whitchurch side of Bronington by the entrance drive to Holy Trinity Church, Bronington. This is an ongoing project, information will be added to the website over the coming weeks and months. …
The memorial plaque is in St John’s Methodist Church, St John’s Street, Whitchurch. The Wesleyan Chapel in Ash Parva closed for worship in 1930 and has now been converted into a private dwelling. This is an ongoing project, information …
The memorial is on the corner of Whitchurch Road and Ash Lane, Ash Magna; with a plaque inside Christ Church, Ash. This is an ongoing project, information will be added to the website over the coming weeks and months. …
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 …
Until 1993, the Military Medal (MM) was a military decoration awarded to personnel of the British Army and other services, and formerly also to personnel of other Commonwealth countries, below commissioned rank, for bravery in battle on land. The medal …
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 …
The Military Cross is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and used to be awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries. The Military Cross is granted in recognition of …
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 …
Chester Chronicle Saturday 15th June 1918 Transcription MILITARY MEDAL WON – The parents of Lance-Corporal C. Williams, of the Machine-gun Corps, have had the gratification of hearing their son has won the Military Medal, for an act of great bravery, …
John Arthur Williams was born in Prees, Whitchurch, Shropshire in 1895, the fourth son of George and Frances Williams of Garfield Villa, Prees Green, Whitchurch, Shropshire. The 1911 Census shows John as a draper’s assistant. Regiment : 6th Battalion South …
Born in Pickhill, Denbighshire, Wales in 1889, the second son of Charles and Selina Williams of The Fields, Bradley, Cheshire. Husband to Agnes Williams of Yew Tree Cottage, Halghton Lane, Hanmer, Flintshire, Wales. Regiment : 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards Rank …
Tom (Thomas) Williams, born in Whitchurch in 1897, the second son of Henry and Mary Elizabeth Williams of 2 Havana Buildings, Scotland Street, Whitchurch. Regiment : 16th (Service) Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps (Church Lads Brigade) Rank : Rifleman Service …
John Herbert Williams, born in Kerry, Montgomeryshire in 1886, the third son of James and Mary. Husband of the late Mabel (nee Edwards) Williams, of Llangollen, Denbighshire (died 29 May 1915), and father of James Edward (born 4 March 1909), …
John Henry Williams was born in Whitchurch in 1890, the second son of John and Alice Williams of Canal Cottages, Chemistry, Whitchurch. John was working as a baker, before enlisting in 1915. Regiment : 8th Company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), …
Born in Bronington, Flintshire, Wales in 1879, the third son of the late William and the late Charlotte Williams of Malt View, Bronington, Flintshire, Wales. Charles was a pump maker and well sinker. Regiment : 20th Battalion Duke of Cambridge’s …
Born in Wem, Shropshire in 1892, the fourth son of Richard and Sarah Ann Williams of Ash House, Ash, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Harry was husband to Sarah A Williams and had one child. The 1911 census shows him as a waggoner …
George Herbert Williams was born in Sherrymill Hill, Whitchurch in 1891. He was the third son of John and Sarah Williams of 8, St John’s Street, Whitchurch. George was a resident of Colne, Lancashire when he enlisted in the Army.
Mechanical Transport Drivers – William John Dodsworth & John Henry Williams Horse Transport Transport Drivers – William A. Kilgarriff, Herbert Roberts, John Hayward, William Arthur Dawson, Alfred Fowles, George Fowles, Arthur Chidlow & Thomas Stockton