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• Malting

Malting was one of the main industries in the town with many malthouses  – such as the old malt house on Willow Street. The father of  Samuel Overton –  worked as a maltster.

• Market Gardener

Private 6308 Samuel Hall, 1 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers. father Samuel, market gardener

• Market Trader / Hawker

Private 6308 Samuel Hall, 1 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers. father Samuel, market gardener

• Merchant Navy (& Royal Navy)

Lieutenant Thomas R Davies. Royal Navy Reserve HM Yacht Conqueror II.

George M Drew, Lieutenant Royal Navy Reserve, HM Submarine E14.

Private 6496 Harry Halford, 1 Bn Scots Guards. Served in army before war then a (?steward) on ‘Aquitaine’ a liner on North Atlantic run.

Second Lieutenant Ferdinand L Hughes, 25 Bn Machine Gun Corps.   And his brother – Reginald Hughes b1892 a merchantman

Chief Mate Mercantile Marine Barnard C Spaull, SS Royal Edward.

John Stubbs, Master Mercantile Marine – SS Mariston

Royal Navy Ableseaman J/28071 Charles E Jones, Royal Navy ‘HMS Magic’. Enlisted in Royal Navy Oct 1913 aged 16

• Metals workers see Blacksmiths and Whitesmiths

 

• Miller

Private 31514 William E Dawson, 2 Bn South Lancashire Regiment. corn miller possibly working at Weston Mills, Oswestry and at Ellesmere Port Flour Mills.

Private 203047 John Griffiths, 4 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Father of at Lower Mill, Pontesbury and Berriew Mill.

• Mineral Water

 

 

Oswestry Mineral Water companies – Dorsett Owen & Co.; Drew & Co. with premises on King Street; Mr Jack Johnson, Castle Hotel and William Carter, Chemist & Mineral Water Manufacture

Private 33126 Samuel Overton, 6 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry attch 83 Field Coy. Royal Engineers. a carter for Dorsett Owen & Co, with works on Salop Road and then worked for Mr Jack Johnson, Castle Hotel, Castle Street where there was a bottling works.  PHOTO OF CASTLE HOTE ON FILE AND OswFamHG

Corporal 15748 Robert E (Edward) Jones, 6 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, worked for Mr Jack Johnson, Castle Hotel, Castle Street where there was a bottling works.

Private 29458 CW MacRoberts, 13 Bn Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment). Mineral water bottler,then labourer

Private 158 Edward Farmer, 4 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. also iron foundry / carter for mineral water business and barman

Private 7308 John Pritchard, 1 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. Mineral water bottler –  worked for Drew & Co, Oswestry – see Lieutenant George Montford Drew

Private 17581 Christopher Macnamara, 11 Bn East Yorkshire Regiment (Hull Pals Hull Tradesmen) worked for William Carter, Chemist & Mineral Water Manufacturer, 6 Cross Street, Oswestry

• Monumental Masons

Lieutenant Frederick H Davies, 10 Bn Canadian Infantry. His father was a monumental mason after the death of his father  his Mother ran the business

• Motor Engineers

Private 21927 Reginald  Archer, 118 Machine Gun Company. Clerk to motor engineers Cambridge

Private 4424 Horace Cadman, 1 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers.  Cycle & motor repairs = working for his father at (Oswestry & Reading?)

 

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