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I'm in touch with the Stone family, several of whose members are buried in Brandwood End.

George Bowater was the nephew of Alderman Bowater, the Mayor of Birmingham and the driving force behind the formation of the Birmingham Pals' Battalions - I only mention this because it was the central point made in the letter of recommendation for officer training from his commanding officer.

Sydney worked as an apprentice photo engraver at 15.

Sorry for late reply, still working on this: the Congregational Church at that time, that is the Moseley Road one and its three 'daughter' churches, had a membership of 588 - and it seems now that at least three of the names came from the Ladypool Road church. The other factor is that the church...

Indeed, no firm connection yet. A couple more John Prings in the mix. Is there anything else about Sarah Ann Pring other than the dates and Frederick Road? Any other family? Lived in Boldmere long? Number in Frederick Road? I was proceeding on the basis that Edgar James Pring served under the...

From another angle completely, trying to find out who John and Sarah Ann Pring were, who lived in Boldmere (or at least Sarah Ann did). Edgar Pring's father James and mother Elizabeth (Paul) lived in Walsall, and in 1881 they have a visitor, John Pring, a currier's assistant from Somerset. He is...

Hi Derek I am late to this discussion, but have some things to add to your information above. Among the many crossings made by Sarah Ann and Maud(e) is on the Lucania in 1909. Their residence is given as Drayton, England. The relative in England for Maud (implicitly in England?) is her father J...

Had the BBC on the phone again today. Still a total mystery where the plaque was 1950s-2012ish. Not at Ladypool Road, the daughter church.

Many thanks, the mails are coming in all the time so if I don't have the answers I'll ask here!

This is what I wrote for the Stone family (I am in touch with several distant relatives): Driver 820762 Alfred Theophilus Stone, Royal Field Artillery Private 41174 Sydney George Stone, 1st Battalion Dorset Regiment Lance Corporal 203553 William John Stone, Rifle Brigade The three sons of...

Thank you, it's been a rollercoaster since Friday when I got a message from a BBC reporter. The big breakthrough came when a man who has researched fallen WW1 soldiers from free (nonconformist/dissenting) churches got in touch - he has an enormous database. This was Saturday afternoon and he was...

Just to say that it (the answer) was never held back Harry Boucher was aged 19 when he was killed in France, the date being designated as the 11th June 1918. He had been reported missing, and had been in France for three months, as above. He was Private 42274 in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal...

This link runs out at 10 o'clock... https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bmdrdt/midlands-today-late-news-09102018

I'm here now!

Not sure how this forum works, just joined. The plaque is definitely originally from Moseley Road Congregational Church. It was proposed in 1917 by the father of Sidney Currie Betts, of the 7th Rifle Brigade, who died on 15th April 1917. The church decided to wait until the end of the war...