Category: 1915

Service No: 12651 – 13th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery Sidney Smith was born in Charlton the eldest of two children born to electrical engineer William and his wife Marion. By 1911 the family was living at The...

Service No: 12025 – Dorsetshire Regiment 6th Battalion Charles Henry Stone was born in Dudley in 1887 To James Henry Stone and Eliza Cotton. By the age of 14 he was working as a railway engine cleaner, but by the age of 24...

Service No: 16757Somerset Light Infantry 8th Battalion John Thomas Rowley was one of 12 children born to railway plate layer Henry King and his wife, Elizabeth. The birth places of the children show the family moved from Brewood...

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...

Service No: 1265 – Australian Imperial Force 8th Battalion Harry Betts was born in Maxstoke in 1895 to William Betts and Mary Ann Pegg. By 1911 the family had moved to Castle Bromwich and the family were living in 2...

Service No: 10467 – 3rd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment Herbert Rushton was born in Buckland End during 1889. He was baptised at St Mary and St Margaret Church, Castle Bromwich on 2nd June of the same year. He was the...

Service No: 8907 – 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards George Brotherton was born in Evesham in 1892, the third of seven children born to John Samuel Brotherton, a market gardener, and Martha Blake. By 1901 the family has...