Personal Details Born: 8 September 1879 (1939 Register has date of birth as 28 September) in Louth, Lincolnshire and baptised 18 January 1885 at St Michael`s Parish Church, Louth. Family: He was the fourth of eleven children born to Ephraim Wilson, …
Personal Details Born: 1899 in West Derby, Lancashire (possible). Family: On the 1901 Census he was Edwin George Williams, said to be the nephew of David Wilson, a grocer`s porter and his wife Hannah, but by the time of the …
Personal Details Born: 29 May 1887 in the Whitchurch registration district and baptised on 3 July 1887 at St. Michael`s Parish Church, Marbury, Cheshire. Family: He was the eldest of three surviving children born to George Henry Wilson, a farm …
Personal Details Born: In 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 29 June the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of four children born to James and Elizabeth Wilson. He had a step …
Personal Details Born: 10 February 1876 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 8 March the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the second of eight children born to Kenrick Wilson, a railway signalman, and his …
Personal Details Born: 31 December 1892 in Rugby, Warwickshire and baptised on 30 January 1893 in the Parish Church of Newbold-on-Avon, Warwickshire. Family: He was the son of Richard Thomas Wilson, a labourer, and his wife Sarah Ellen but was …
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 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 …
Report in the Whitchurch Herald 20th January 1917 regarding the death of Ernest Wilson “Pte, Ernest Wilson a Whitchurch Boy K.L.R. (Pals) age 19, after a year’s active service and participating in severe action has died of wounds in No …
The following Whitchurch men were recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal : 43987 2nd Cpl. G. G. Wyatt, 16th Div. Sig. Coy., Royal Engineers Whitchurch, Shropshire – 31 December 1918 11851 Pte. G. M. Sergeant, 6th Bn., King’s Shropshire Light …
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 22nd September 1917 of the death of Leonard Wilson “The sad news was received on Wednesday afternoon that Drummer Wilson had died in Wharncliffe War Hospital, Sheffield, after undergoing surgery to amputate a leg. He …
Born in Liverpool, in 1882, the son of Arthur Wilson. Husband of Martha Jane (nee Owen) Wilson, of 15 Watergate Street, Whitchurch. Regiment : 1st Battalion Border Regiment, formerly 16th Btn. The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) No 25679 Rank : Private …
Report in the Sheffield Independent 15 September 1917 of entertainment provided for wounded soldiers “An enjoyable entertainment was provided for the wounded soldiers at Wharncliffe (Sheffield) War Hospital by artistes from Lyceum Theatre, Empire and Hippodrome, yesterday. Songs, recitations, and …
Ernest Wilson was born in Whitchurch in 1896. He was the fourth son of James and Elizabeth Wilson of Chester Road, Whitchurch. Ernest was a resident of Liverpool in 1914 when he enlisted. He landed in France on the 7th …
Talbot Ernest Wilson, born in Holywell, Flintshire, Wales in 1882, the only son of Augusta and the late Talbot Thomas Wilson of Bickley Moss, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Husband to Jessie Wilson (nee Whitridge – married on the Isle of Man 26 …