Welcome to this blog, published by Wolverhampton City Archives. In the run-up to the commemorations for the anniversary of the First World War in 2014, we will be sharing the stories, images and details of the local men and women who were involved, both at home and abroad. We will see letters home from the trenches, diaries, newspaper entries and tales from school log books, which will all help to build up a picture of what Wolverhampton people experienced during the Great War. Much of the research will be completed by our brilliant team of volunteers, so if you are interested in volunteering and assisting with this fantastic project, please get in touch! In addition, if you have your own stories, anecdotes or items from your own research or from family members, please feel free to share them with us – we may be able to feature them in a future blog!
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I have read your blog with interest and was quite interested in the one on William Bruerton, not because I know of him but because there wasn’t much information. So being curious, as I am, I thought I would try and find some information on him myself. I discovered that the William H Bruerton born in Wolverhampton in 1874 died in 1874. I found a William Horatio Bruerton in the 1911 Census and he was married to Eliza Elizabeth Foxhall. THey lived at 18F Gibbs Street, Wolverhampton with their two children, Elizabeth May Bruerton aged 9 and William Bruerton aged 1. Eliza’s mother, Eliza Foxhall, also lived with them. William’s occupation is listed as a Whole Life Insurance Agent. The only discrepancy I can see on this listing is William is listed as being born in Darlaston. I hope this may be of some help to you. If not nothing really lost
Regards
Jacqueline de Escofet
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I live in Surrey, BC, Canada and I purchased a water colour painting signed T.E.GRAHAM and titled HARLECH. With searching on line I have come across the name on your website. Any further information is welcome.
Melanie
The information we have about Thomas Eric Graham mainly relate to his service during the First World War (https://wolverhamptonswar.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/thomas-eric-graham/), but the fact that he was in the Artists Rifles indicates that this is presumably the same man. As he was a member of the family who still run the Express & Star newspaper today, it might be worth your getting in touch with them: http://www.expressandstar.com/about-us/
Thanks
Why is Percy Shaw missing from 1st Bat South Staffs ? he fought and died for us
Hello
There are posts being added to this blog all the time, and Percy Shaw has not yet been featured. We have a full Roll of Honour of over 4300 local men and woman who died during the First World War, and Percy Shaw appears on there, so he will feature on the blog in due course.
Thanks.
Heidi McIntosh
Many Thanks for your reply..My main concern was a book published about Wolverhampton Warriors.. with no mention of Percy or his brother Benjamin who both died in WW 1
Mick OToole
Thank you very much for this information. We have had not involvement in the publication of this book and, in fact, were not aware of it, so cannot comment on which individuals were included.
Wanted to thank everyone involved for this blog. I was really pleased to see my great uncle Alfred Arthur Plant who served in the South Staffordshire Regiment listed and the level of detail that had been researched. To this day I treasure his medals and war plaque which was left to me by my granddad who was Arthur’s brother-in-law married to his sister my grandma Emma. Their memory will live on and I’ve already recounted many stories to my daughter in the hope his memory will live on for many generations of my family.
Hello,
A quick thank you for the brief in John Bellingham, it’s helped pad out some of my knowledge of him. As a follow on to this his son Sydney Bellingham was killed on the 23rd May 1940 whilst serving with 673 Artisan Works Coy of the Royal Engineers.
Thanks again,
Scott