War Memorials – Oswestry & District and Beyond
Holy Trinity Church, Oswestry.
Holy Trinity Church, Oswestry. (DO)
Holy Trinity Church, Roft Street, Oswestry. (DO)
Roll of Honour. Holy Trinity Church, Oswestry. (MA)
LINK to Holy Trinity Church web site
Holy Trinity Church, Oswestry was built in 1837 to relieve overcrowding in St Oswald’s Church. The Church is a Grade II listed building standing on the corner of Roft Street and Salop Road. The architect was Thomas Penson (1790-1859), a local man who also designed St Agatha’s Church, Llanymynech, the National School on Welsh Walls and the market building, now Edinburgh Woollen Mill on The Cross.
The poet Wilfred Owen, born 18 March 1893 at Oswestry, was baptised at Holy Trinity, similarly many of the Men on the Gates were baptised and many married there; for many their memorial and burial services were also conducted in the Church.
The World War 1 War Memorial is at the western end with a brass plaque on one wall and a handwritten Roll of Honour opposite. The plaque has 73 names, the RofH 69. Of these 68 are identified as Men on the Gates. Those not on the Gates are –
Thomas Fernyhough – Shropshire Yeomanry. Died March 1919. (BROTHER TO John Fernyhough)
Robert J Davies
Robert John Davies (poss double entry for above)
Leslie Pritchard (poss double entry for MotG Arthur Leslie Pritchard)
Holy Trinity – Men on the Gates
Private 10763, Bertie Annum, 5 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Sergeant 12267 Thomas H Barclay, 6 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Private 12329 Harry Beaton, 6 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. – member of the church choir and Church Club.
Private 7639 Frank Boylin, 7 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. (spelt as Boylyn. See also Gunner 7201 Frank Boylin, Royal Marine Artillery.
Corporal 13868 Percy Broster, 7 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Private 7078 William A Collins, 6 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Private 6699 RH Cooper, 2Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Private 2031 Arthur Llew(elyn) Davies, 1/6 Bn Manchester Regiment.
Private 14729 E. Davies. 7 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Private 2736 GH Douglas Davies, Shropshire Yeomanry 3/1 att. 10 Bn Cheshire Regiment.
Sergeant 12399 Joseph Davies, 12 Bn West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own).
Private 8407 Percy J Davies, Labour Corps. Trans. From 4 Bn RWF.
Lieutenant Thomas R Davies. Royal Navy Reserve HM Yacht Conqueror II.
Private 31514 William E Dawson, 2 Bn South Lancashire Regiment.
Private 22129 Ernest R Desborough, 9 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Private 11487 George Douglas, 5 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. A Memorial Service was held at Holy Trinity Church. The service was attended by members of his guild, the vicar Rev H Eaton Thomas presided.
Private 2621 JA (James Alfred) Dutton, 1/6 Bn Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment).
Acting Bombardier 1797 George Edwards, 92 Battery Royal Field Artillery.
Private 49866 Lawson E Edwards, 13 Bn Cheshire Regiment.
Private 49724 Frederick O Ellis, 2 Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
Lance Corporal 12317 George E Farmer, 6 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Driver 653 John Fernyhough, 2/1 Bn Shropshire Royal Horse Artillery.
Lance Corporal 201314 Hubert W Gwilliam, 5 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Private 21425 William Husbands, 6 Bn King’ Shropshire Light Infantry.
Private 6600 Evan Jones, 2 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Private 37389 George H Jones 1 Bn King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment).
Private 200588 John R (Richard) Jones, 1/4 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Private R4/089184 John P Jones, Army Service Corps. Died 21 October 1918,
Private 10493 William P Jones, 2 Bn Coldstream Guards (2 Coy).
Corporal 106564 Mark Jones, Royal Garrison Artillery 234 Siege Battery.
Corporal 15748 Robert E (Edward) Jones, 6 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry,
Possibly as Tom Jones – Private 4960 Thomas Jones, 3/1 Bn Herefordshire Regiment. OR Private 26265 Thomas Jones, 1 Bn Cheshire Regiment.
Captain Rev. Thomas Glasfryn Jones Army Chaplains’ Department att. 11 Bn South Wales Borderers. His uncle was possibly a clergyman there?
Private 12273 Frank E Jordan, 1 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Private 8710 George (Edward) Lawrence, 2 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry,
Private 15749 William H Lewis, 6 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Private 7051 Edward Lloyd, 1 Bn King’ Shropshire Light Infantry.
Private 6154 Albert E Loose, 2 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Believed to be incorrectly recorded as Thomas H Loose – Private 16926 Charles H Loose, 1 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Private 21270 Edward W (William Edward) Lyndom, 7 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry,
Lance Corporal 24919 T Mansell Mason, 9 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Lance Corporal 8209 Thomas Mills, 1/1Bn Herefordshire Regiment.
Captain Joseph (Thompson) Monkhouse, 6 Bn Durham Light Infantry.
Lance Corporal 13873 Percy W Miner, 7 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Sergeant 200900 John J Phillips, 9 Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Private 241284 Edward A Preece, 1/5 Bn Cheshire Regiment,
Private 17549 Herbert Price, 1 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry,
Private 11804 A Leslie Pritchard, 6 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Private 7308 John (R) Pritchard, 1 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Lieutenant Herbert W Rayner, 10 Bn RWF attd. 76 Trench Mortar Battery.
Private 12294 Arthur Roberts, 6 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Corporal, 10910 Jack Roberts, 19 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Private 266235 Thomas V Roberts, 1 Bn King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment).
Private 10037 William Roberts, 1 / 4 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Private 19742 Albert Smith, 1 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Private 19743 Alfred Smith, 1 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Chief Mate Mercantile Marine Barnard C Spaull, SS Royal Edward.
Private 7035 Thomas W Trow, 2 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Second Lieutenant James R Whittaker, 6 Bn King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
Private 26409 George L (Llewelyn) Williams, 7 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Private 22300 Robert B (Burns) Williams, 7 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Sergeant 12258 Stanley Williams, 6 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
Private 11488 Harry Wright, 1 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry,
Lance Corporal 230469 Ernest Wynn, 10 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.
END