Private H. Rowley (West Yorkshire Regiment)
Private Harry Rowley was reported missing in the Weekly Mercury of September 2nd 1916. He had last been seen on 27th September 1915 at Loos. His mother asked for information from any comrades and could ...
Private Harold Augustine Flynn (1439, Royal Warwickshire Regiment)
Private Flynn served in 14th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment and was just 19 when he was killed on 5th August 1916. The Weekly Mercury spells his surname wrong as "FLYLL" but it is definitely Private ...
Private Harold Bowne (240210, Royal Warwickshire Regiment)
This man was featured in the "reported missing" section allocated each week during the war as a Weekly Mercury feature.
Private Bowne was reported missing on the 1st of July. His parents of 33 Browning ...
Private J.E. Kilby (1630, Royal Warwickshire Regiment)
Private Kilby was featured in The Weekly Mercury on September 2nd 1916. He had been missing since 1st of July and his sister, Miss E. Kilby of 315 Icknield Port Road was anxious for news.
Sadly Private ...
Private W. Morgan (1981, Royal Warwickshire Regiment)
This man was featured in the "reported missing" section allocated each week during the war as a Weekly Mercury feature.
Private Morgan was reported missing on 1st of July 1916. His mother Mrs Morgan ...
Private W.H. Ricketts (10670, Royal Warwickshire Regiment)
Reported missing in the Weekly Mercury of 7th October 1916. He had at that time been missing since 23rd July and his wife of 249 Bridge Street West welcomed news of him.
Private Ricketts was eventually ...
Quartermaster Serjeant Martin Bayliss
Martin Bayliss (200083) served in the Royal Warwickshire regiment during World War One. He became a Quartermaster Serjeant and received three medals - the Victory, War and Territorial Efficiency medal. ...
Royal Warwickshire Regiment - World War One
A collection of images from the website relating to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in World War One. Due to the nature of local recruitment many of the men were from Birmingham and this exhibition concentrates ...
Somewhere in Hunland
Sunday Mercury article about Birmingham men being held prisoner by the Germans during the First World War. The men pictured are all in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. The original image was sent by Private ...
Standard bearer party for the Alfred Knight Way official ceremony
The guests for the ceremony were received for a brief service in Sunset Park where this impressive group of ten ex-service personnel waited for them. Knight won the Victoria Cross in 1917 at Ypres and ...
The official unveiling of Alfred Knight Way
Michael Carey and Anne Walsh, two of Alf's grand-children, unveiling the road sign. Alfred Knight won the Victoria Cross in 1917 at Ypres. He was born in Friston Street, Ladywood and it was decided to ...
Two minute silence
The two minute silence observed for those who gave their lives during wartime. This was at the ceremony for the opening of Alfred Knight Way in Park Central. Knight was born in nearby Friston Street and ...
Wartime wedding at St Catherine of Siena
The wedding in April 1916 of Private J. Devaney of the 3rd Worcestershire Regiment to Catherine Hayes of Edgbaston. Having checked the Medal Cards at Kew there is no Private Devaney listed for the Worcesters ...
Zeppelin fighters in Birmingham - including Victoria Cross awardee William Leefe Robinson
The picture looks as though it was taken next to St Philip's Cathedral in Birmingham City Centre, possibly on Colmore Row as they are walking towards the Council House.
Sowrey is difficult to establish ...
Zeppelins!!
The threat and actuality of bombing raids by Zeppelins on Britain during the First World War prompted adverts such as these from insurance companies. The reality of raids such as that on the Midlands ...