Gwyther Family Castle Bromwich and Military Service
Julian Gwyther was the son of Edwin Gwyther and his wife Mary Ann née Lander. On 23 January 1875,...
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Category: WW1
John Edwin Savage (1917-1943)
Service No: 612613 Royal Air Force John Edwin Savage was born on 12th November 1917,...
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The Winning Family Castle Bromwich, WW1 and WW2
Family Background Theodore Norman Winning was born on 8th August 1884 in Orange Free State,...
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Private Victor Harold Meade and the Mysterious Lady 1892 – 1917
It’s been over a hundred years since a mysterious woman from Castle Bromwich sat at the...
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Sidney Samuel Winkley (1890-1966)
Childhood Sidney SamuelWinkley was the son of Thomas William Winkley and Catherine Sophia Jinks....
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Castle Bromwich War Deaths – Timeline 1914 – 1919
When you go home, tell them of us and say: For your tomorrow, we gave our today. On August 4th...
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The Castle Bromwich Street Where 6 Men Left For WW1 Never To Return To The Lives They Had Known
New Street Castle Bromwich It’s 2.30 on an overcast November afternoon and a man is washing...
Read MoreArthur Oswald Hemming (1893-1918)
Service No: 14452 – Duke of Edinburgh’s Wiltshire Regiment Private Arthur Oswald Hemming died of heart failure on 7th December 1918 whilst serving with the Wiltshire Regiment. He died at home in New Street, Castle Bromwich...
Read MoreArthur Hancox (1893-1918)
Service No: 21162 – 11th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment Private Arthur Hancox, 11th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment was born in Castle Bromwich in 1893, and was the eleventh of the twelve children, six sons, six...
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Samuel Andrews (1887-1918)
Service No: 140564 Machine Gun Infantry 8th Battalion Military Service No’s: 30857 Devonshire...
Read MoreHerbert Frank Crofts (1899-1918)
Service No: 704252nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment Herbert Frank Crofts, known as Frank, was born in Castle Bromwich on 9th March 1899 and was baptised in St Mary and St Margaret Church on 26 April of the same year, He was the...
Read MoreLeonard James Jakeway (1888-1918)
Service No: 12438 58th – Company Machine Gun Corps Leslie James Jakeway was born on 10th May 1888 the third of seven known children born to William Jakeway, a Cooper, and Emma Bird. By 1911 he was employed as a Compositor....
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