Part One: Wilfred Owen The essay for Shrewsbury Technical School merited 17/20 with the comment “You would have done better to keep to the 3rd person.” Today, it reads rather pompously from someone aged only fifteen. “The first striking impression on entering one of our large stations at a busy time is the number of […]
These men were remembered at the St Chad’s memorial service on the 8th April 2015. Driver Charles Jones, Regimental ID T4/070482, of the Army Service Corps died on the third of April. He is remembered on the Bridgnorth memorial. Private Walter Harold Overson, Regimental ID 27432, of the Royal Army Medical Corps died on the fourth […]
Friday, March 12, 1915 200,000 New Laid Eggs. Wanted weekly for our Wounded Soldiers and Sailors, with full approval of the War Office, for the national Egg Collection Depot. Open Wednesdays and Saturdays. Mrs. Goodwin Preece, Claremont Street, Shrewsbury. The British Spirit – A parishioner of St. Michael’s, Shrewsbury, who is serving at the front, […]
Beneath the war memorial in Stanton Lacy churchyard [SO 495 788 off the B4365 northwest of Ludlow] is a very special plaque to one of Shropshire’s First World War VCs. “In honoured memory, Able Seaman William Charles Williams VC Royal Navy, who gained his country’s highest award for valour on 25th April 1915 at Gallipoli. […]
Second Lieutenant Frank Harold Elwin, 3rd Bn. attd. 2nd Bn. Wiltshire Regiment. Killed in action 12 March 1915, aged 19. Remembered at Cockshutt and Shrewsbury School Second Lieutenant Guy Barnett, 5th Bn. attd. 1st Bn. Worcestershire Regiment. Killed in action 12 March 1915, aged 24. Remembered at Church Stretton. Private Joseph Williams, 6275, 1st Bn. […]
Public Notice. Defence of the Realm Act, 1914. Possession of Firearms, Ammunition, or Explosives. Residents of the County of Salop (other than Members of His Majesty’s Forces) who have in their possession any Firearms, Ammunition, or Explosives, are requested to kindly furnish particulars to the Superintendent of Police of the District in which they reside […]
Lives remembered at St Chad’s Great War Remembrance Service – 11 March 2015 Captain Henry Trelss Watson of the King’s (Liverpool Regiment) attached to the 2nd Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry died on the sixth of March. He is remembered on the Bitterley Memorial. Private Charles Jones, Regimental ID G/913, of The Buffs (East […]
Friday, February 26, 1915 SOCKS for the Shropshires – Four parcels have been despatched from Wyle Cop Girls’ School, Shrewsbury, to the Shropshires at the front, and one girl received the following letter from one of the recipients: W coy, 2nd Shropshires. “Dear Little Friend – Thank you very much for the parcel which we […]
Great War Remembrance Service a St Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury 18 February 2015 The men we remember on this day fought for their comrades and loved ones. Private Stephen John Bowen, Regimental ID 10285, of the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry was killed on the twelfth of Febuary. He is remembered at the Leebotwood memorial. Private Ernest Jones, […]
“Coal is everything for us, and we want more of it to win victory.” David Lloyd George, Minister of Munitions, July 1915 Had you been standing on the Dana footbridge of Shrewsbury station on August 27th 1914, almost a year earlier, you would be forgiven for overlooking the strategic importance of the coal train which […]
