Faces of the First World War: Snapshot stories of wartime heroes still remembered and loved - Part 2

We asked for your stories of those who served and sacrificed. Credit: ITV News Central
  • John Henry Walker

Credit: Christine Walker
  • John T. ( Jack) Horton

Credit: John Fullwood
  • George Twitty

Credit: Bobbie Adams
  • Manjit Gill

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  • Edwin Hughes

Credit: Julie Maxwell
  • Albert

Credit: Richard Drage
  • Eliza Hughes

Credit: James Boot
  • Harold C Archer

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  • William Honeybone

Credit: Marie O'Boyle-Duggan
  • George Edwin Newby

Credit: Robert Matthews

George Edwin Newby was the great uncle of my wife. He was a stoker and was killed in action at the Battle of Coronel in the Pacific off Chile on 1st November 1914 Aged 30. HMS Good Hope, Royal Navy.

Married to Ada.

Records show medals presented - Star, Victory Medal, British War Medal.

  • John 'Jack' Aston

Credit: Toni Hickman

I have attached a photograph of my Great Uncle John 'Jack' Aston who was a sergeant in the 1st/6th Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment.

He was born in Tipton and died from his injuries on 2 June 1918, he was 25 years old. He is buried at Etaples Military Cemetery in France.

  • Zachariah Smith

Credit: Steve Smith
  • Francis Raymond Wilkes

Credit: Ambermad Hall

Francis Raymond WilkesBorn in DudleyQueens Royal Regiment Killed in action25th February 1944 - Aged 36 years oldKilled in Italy but buried in Anzio military cemetery.

  • James Le Doux

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  • Clarence Southall

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  • Jonah George Thompson

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  • Vincent White

Credit: Diane White
  • Syd Young

Credit: Michael Young
  • 'Grandfather McGregor'

Credit: Tony McGregor
  • Richard Beard

Credit: Stuart Woolley
  • William Thomas Phillips & Emma Phillips

Credit: Esther Hughes
  • Frederick Tabbenor

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  • George Sunley

Credit: He was my grandfathers uncle and was killed aged 22. He was born in Darlington and was the youngest of 8 children. He is buried in Etreux, France.
  • John Edward Gravenor and Evan James Gravenor

Credit: Nikki Medlicott Hulme
  • William George Payne

Credit: Lesley Lincoln

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