Month: August 2015

Service No: 11852 – 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment Alfred Richard Irons was born on 26th January 1897 and seems to have been the youngest son of Charles and Lizzie Irons of Castle Bromwich. The couple married on 26th...

Service No: 12027 – 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment Benjamin James Thomas Harris was born in 1896 in Acocks Green to Benjamin Harris and Edith Gibbs. Between 1901 and the end of 1906 the family had moved to Castle...

Service No: 5026 Royal Warwickshire Regiment 11h Battalion On 7th November 1915, 24-year-old Private John Henry Woolley from Castle Bromwich was killed in action in France, serving with the 11th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire...