Ironbridge Gorge Community Archive

J.H Biggs

 D/JX154918 Able seaman John Henry Biggs , Royal Navy was the son of Thomas R and Elizabeth Biggs, of Madeley. Died 8^th June 1940, age 19, when HMS Glorious was sunk off the Norwegian coast.

He is remembered on The Royal Naval Memorial Plymouth, Panel 37 Column 2

 

T.J. Biggs

P/JX 324870 Ordinary seaman Thomas Joseph Biggs  was the son of Thomas R and Elizabeth Biggs, of Madeley.  He died when HMS Fidelity sank on the 1^st January 1943, age 19.

He is remembered on the Royal Naval Memorial Plymouth. Panel 76, column 1

 

Horatio Ellis Evans

21069 private Horatio Ellis Evans M.M. 7^thBattalion South Wales Borderers – eldest son of Horatio William Evans, the Lloyds Ironbridge. Killed in Salonika 17^th September 1918 age 32.

 

Albert Goodall 

 

4032608 private Albert Raymond Goodall 2^nd Battalion K.S.L.I.  Killed in action in Normandy 2^nd  July 1944. Husband of Mrs Goodall 22 Dale road Coalbrookdale.

 KILLED IN ACTION.-News was received on Monday, by Mrs A. R. Goodall, 22. Dale Road, Coalbrookdale, that her husband, L.Cpl. Albert Raymond Goodall, was killed in action in North West Europe on July 2. L.Cpl. Goodall, who was a son of Mr and Mrs A. A Goodall, 19, Quarry Road, Broseley, joined the Territorial’s about seven years ago and was mobilised in 1939. He later served in Jamaica and the West Indies, returning to this country about three years ago, where he had since been under special training. He was 25 and as a boy attended Broseley C of E. School and Methodist Sunday School. At the time of joining up he was employed at the Benthall White Brickhill. His hobby was boxing and he had won many cups and prizes in competitions. About two years ago he married Miss Kathleen Law, of Coalbrookdale, who, together with one daughter, survives him.

 

 

 

John Robert Maddison

1465822 private John Robert Maddison 9^th Battalion the Durham light infantry killed in action north west Europe 9^thAugust 1944 – resided  Ironbridge.

 

Poppitt/Poppett Fred Norman.

 Air Raid Warden Fred Norman Poppitt died of Injuries received through German bombing at Distillers Co. Ltd., Bankhill, Liverpool. He died at Walton Hospital, Rice Lane, Liverpool. 12 May 1941, aged 45.  He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. H. Poppitt, of Commercial Hotel, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire; Norman was the husband of Jessie Crann Poppitt, of 37 Normandale Road, Liverpool. He had served during the Great War with the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry from 1914 through to 1919. Fred is recorded on the plaque in Coalbrookdale church commemorating all who served in WW1. 

Information from Neil Evans

 

E. Ross

1453535 Gunner Eli Ross was a Gunner in the 137 H.A.A Regt. Who died 8^thJanuary 1946 is buried in Coalbrookdale Church Cemetery.

 

 

 

 

1453535 GUNNER

E. ROSS

ROYAL ARTILLERY

8^th JANUARY 1946

 

Buried Coalbrookdale grave 79

 

 This photograph was donated by Neil Evans

 

 Robert Cyril Salter

 

 

 

       IN

             LOVING MEMORY OF

           ROBERT CYRIL SALTER

       (BOBBY)

                 KILLED IN AIR CRASH AT RUCELEY

             NOVEMBER 12^th 1938 AGED 18 YEARS

 

             “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS”

Buried in Coalbrookdale.

 

The photograph above was donated by Neil Evans

 

 Richard Buckworth-Herne-Soame

 

 

 

14394 – Sergt. Richard Everard was the eldest son of Sir Charles and Lady Buckworth-Herne-Soame of Horsehay. He joined the 7th Battalion Kings Shropshire Light Infantry, and died of wounds in Kempston Hospital, Eastbourn, on 29/30th July 1916, age 24.

 

The photographs were donated by the niece and grand niece of Richard