Ryton is little more than a hamlet and does not have a Parish Church therefore it held no record or memorial to the men of Ryton who served during WW1. Despite this, I was aware that several Ryton men had served because my friend, Ann Duddridge had told me of several members of her family […]
While having sort out in the Parvis Room, above the porch at St Andrews Church Shifnal, the Rev. Sally Day, found two posters in a cupboard. They were folded in the blank book which had been intended to be a roll of honour but was never completed. The posters list the names of 184 men from the […]
In 2014 a small group of people got together to raise funds for the refurbishment of the Myddle War Memorial. One of their first tasks was to establish who owned the memorial as the owner’s permission would be needed for the work to be done. Unfortunately, they found no evidence of ownership and so they […]
To mark the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele, the Dept for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on the advice of Historic England has up-graded Shrewsbury War Memorial, from Grade II to Grade II* Due to its scupltural, architectural and historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on the […]
The 21st May 2017 will mark the Centenary of the Imperial War Graves Commission. Now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) it was created by Royal Charter with the Prince of Wales as its first President. CWGC marks its Centenary with the launch of a series of projects aimed at promoting wider awareness of its […]
On the 26th August 2016, Madeley Town Council held a dedication service for the commemorative stone to Major Yate, V.C. The memorial has been laid in the refurbished square on Russell Green along with the repositioned war memorial. Major Charles Allix Lavington Yate was one of the first soldiers to win the Victoria Cross. It was […]
St Mary the Virgin Church Shrewsbury 10:00 – 16:00 until 13 August 2016 Carl Jaycock is a generous man. With his wife, Zareen, he has spent months tracking down and photographing some 200 war memorials in Shropshire. The art project (financed by Arts Council England) which has resulted now stands like a pyramid before the […]
Big Wood, Castle Covert, Ditton Enclosure, Old Lodge Coppice, The Moat, and Woolers Wood … what might have hauled the timber from these woods in Burwarton, Shropshire into the Front Line of the First World War? In 1913 90% of the nation’s timber requirements were imported. Why was wood a strategic material? It literally propped […]
Soon after the Great War finished, Field Marshall French suggested the British build an Anglican church in Ypres to honour the soldiers and units of the British army who served on the Ypres Salient. He also wanted the building to act as a meeting place for visiting relatives who began coming out to see where […]
CRAVEN ARMS TAKES ‘OLD BILL’ TO ITS HEART A War Memorial nicknamed ‘Old Bill’ occupied a position on Shropshire’s front line, the A49, for 35 years. In 1956 he was forced to beat a retreat from the whizz bangs of the main road. His corner of the A49 and the Corvedale Road in Craven Arms […]
