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Robert Radcliffe
Robert Radcliffe Robert Radcliffe (Bob) was the Uncle of Parishioner Irene Collins. He lived with the family until he was called up in 1918 and enrolled in the Northumberland Fusiliers. He was trained as a machine gunner and then sent, not to the western Front, but to Russia to assist in Churchill’s little known campaign […]
Corporal Fred White
Corporal Fred White 7th Manchester Regiment Parishioner Mavis Kinghorn’s Grandad was award the Distinguished Conduct Medal (D.C.M.) “for conspicuous gallantry on 7th August 1915, at Krithia Nullah, Gallipoli. After all the Officers and N.C.O.’s had fallen, Corporal White took command and rallied the men who were wavering under a close and withering fire. His bravery […]
Fred Wilde and John Wilde
Fred Wilde and John Wilde, Father and Son Fred was the maternal uncle of parishioner Barbara Kilshaw’s father and John his cousin. As a young man, John was much admired and looked up to by Barbara’s father. Both Fred and John were killed in World War 1 and for many years it was believed both […]
Private Frank Wilfred Minshull
Private Frank Wilfred Minshull The grandfather of parishioner Sue Withenshaw was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1893. His parents, Frank Minshull and Rebekeh Susanna Lavender, married in July 1891 and shortly after went to Australia to prospect for gold. As a family they returned sometime in 1895 but sadly Rebekeh died in July 1895 in […]
Private Daniel Hanvey
Private Daniel Hanvey, 19th Battalion Manchester Regiment The Grandfather of Parishioner Anne Feeley, Daniel was born in Manchester in 1891. He enlisted on 4th January 1915 at the age of 24 having married Anne’s Grandmother (Catherine) only four days before on the 30th December. After 10 months in England Daniel was posted with his Battalion […]
Private Charles Jackson
Private Charles Jackson Was the Uncle of parishioner Eric Sanders. On 2nd February 1916 at the age of 37, while working and living in Greenwood Street, Altrincham as a fishmonger’s assistant, he enlisted in the Manchester Regiment to “serve one day with the colours and the remainder of the period in the Army reserves”. Presumably […]
Private Stuart Boothe Pilling
Private Stuart Boothe Pilling 6th Battalion, Manchester Regiment Brother of Jane Allen’s Mother in Law Stuart was born in Stretford in 1894. His parents were Thomas and Ellen Pilling and he had a younger sister Kathleen May. He was the brother of parishioner Jane Allen’s Mother in Law. Stuart was a pupil at Manchester Grammar […]
Alfred Hinton
Alfred Hinton 1st World War Soldier 1914 – 1918 Albert Hinton, Grandfather of parishioner Rose Cooper, was born on 6th June 1890 and fought as a soldier in the First World War. He lived in the small market town of Wem in Shropshire and worked as a postman when he left school. He and Rose’s […]
Athur & Annie Browning
Arthur Browning Annie Browning Arthur and Annie Browning were the Grandparents of parishioner Pauline Stevenson. Pauline writes: Arthur was born in 1885, so was 29 when the war started and Annie was a year younger, They were both born in Nottingham, but moved out to the suburbs – to 55, Imperial Road, Chilwell – […]
