Month: September 2016

Sam Chidler Ravenhall (1894-1916)

Service No: 10727Machine Gun Corps 64th Brigade Infantry Sam Chidler Ravenhall was born in Castle Bromwich in 1894 and was the youngest of the four children, three sons, one daughter, of parents John Joseph Ravenhall, a...

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The Evils of “Treating”

Birmingham Mail – Thursday 01 April 1915 THE EVILS OF TREATING. SOLDIER’S STORY OF TRAIN FATALITY CASTLE BROMWICH A tragic story of the evils of treating was told at Leicester yesterday, when a soldier was remanded on a...

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This Day In History

1864 Mary Harton died, aged 70. She is buried in Castle Bromwich Graveyard. (160)
1957 Caleb and Ethel Siviter died. They are buried in Castle Bromwich Graveyard. (67)
1970 Alice Sarah Payne died aged 93. (54)

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