Category: 1917

Service No: 298791st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment Herbert Ernest Rhodes was born in Castle Bromwich on 28th February 1880 and baptised at St Mary and St Margaret Church, Castle Bromwich on 4th April 1880. He was the...

Service Number: 242829 – 1st/6th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment Private George Neville from Castle Bromwich was killed in action on 27th August 1917, serving with the 1st/6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment....

Service No: 1454 – 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment  Sergeant George Holtham, was killed in action on 20th June 1917 serving with the 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was 26 years old and had worked...

Service No: 266832 – 1st/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment William James Leake was born in Castle Bromwich in 1893 and baptised at St Mary and St Margaret Church on 6th August 1893. He was the ninth of the ten children of...

Service No: 1608 Secondary Regiment Queen’s Own Yorkshire Dragoons Yeomanry Second Lieutenant William Moorwood Staniforth, Royal Flying Corps (RFC) was killed in a flying accident in Coventry on 23rd March 1917. Born in...

Service No: 1307311th Battalion the King’s Liverpool Regiment George William Irons was born in Castle Bromwich on 15th March 1882 and was baptised at St Mary and St Margaret Church on 7th May of the same year. He was the fourth...

The Honorable Richard Orlando Beaconsfield Bridgeman was born on February 28, 1879 in the Chelsea section of London, England. He was the sixth of the seven children of George Cecil Orlando Bridgeman, 4th Earl of Bradford and...

Service No: 19656 – Coldstream Guards 5th Reserve Battalion John Harvey was born on 16th February 1881 and baptised at Castle Bromwich on 3rd April 1881. John was the fifth child and eldest son of the eight children, three...

Lucien Herbert Higgs was born in Schaerbeek, Brussels on 21st March 1892 to a British father – Herbert James Higgs, born in Bristol in 1855 – and his Belgian wife, Florentine Augusta Victorine Therese, née Benoit, who was born...