FREDERIC DEVEREUX JESSOP
The first Old Caldeian to be awarded the Military Cross, Frederic Jessop returned from Singapore in 1915 to take his part in the war.
Jessop family grave in the Holy Trinity churchyard, Hoylake Continue reading “Frederic Devereux Jessop”
WILLIAM HENRY NOEL MARPLES
This biography was written by Victoria Doran.
Noel Marples was an Old Caldeian who died, along with 18 comrades, marching towards the German line in perfect formation under heavy machine gun and rifle fire.
William Henry Noel Marples – courtesy of the archivist for Aviva Plc
ERIC BERNARD HOUGH
This biography was written by Victoria Doran
Eric Bernard Hough was a young Captain in the Liverpool ‘Pals’ who came from a very wealthy Methodist family whose fortune had been founded largely by his grandfather Samuel Hough in Liverpool.
He was awarded a posthumous Military Cross.
Captain Eric Bernard Hough – from King William’s College, Isle of Man Roll of Honour
The following biographies were written by Carol Hunter.
Sellars from Liverpool to Hoylake
Eric and Herbert were born in Liverpool and appear to have been the only children of Frank Jonathan Campbell Whiteley Sellars and Elizabeth Whiteley, who were first cousins. Their father Frank was born in 1859 in Greasbrough, Yorkshire and was the only child of Benjamin Sellars (mineral surveyor and later a colliery proprietor) and Elizabeth Whiteley b1821. Their mother Elizabeth was born in 1857 in Liverpool, one of 5 children of William Whiteley b1825 (grocer) and Ellen Peddar Baylis. Continue reading “Eric Francis and Herbert Whiteley Sellars”
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