Private James Francis Shone
RWK 24777 & 593855 Labour Corps
Awarded Victory & British Medal

James was born 1877 in Welshampton, to parents Samuel Shone & Mary (Cartwright)
1881 Blethings Bank, Welshampton aged 3
1891 same address with family
1901 in Hanmer Village, aged 23 farmer’s son
1911 Hanmer with widowed mother working their farm
Possible: Marriage to Charlotte Richard June qtr 1928, Oswestry district.
1939 they are living in Oswestry birth date states 30th December 1877. Death Mar qtr 1964, Oswestry district