This week's pictures from the past

This shows "HRH the Duke of York, Warrant Officers and Sergeants of the 2nd Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry taken on the presentation of Colours to the 2nd Battalion at Shrewsbury on April 25, 1935.

Front row are, from left: CQMS J Leah; CSM J Whittingham; QMS (ORS) J Brown; RQMS C Silver; BM FW Bennett, ARCM; RSM, GE Clarke, DCM; Lt General Sir (first initial obliterated) JC Grant, KCVO, CB, DSO; HRH the Duke of York; Lt Col LH Torin MC; RSM FC Clark, DCM; RQMS L Moore; QMS (ORS) (initial obliterated) Simpkins; CSM G Broad, CSM B Saunders; CQMS W Bennett."

The picture was loaned by Phil Bennett, of Newfield Drive, Shrewsbury, who was born at Copthorne Barracks and whose father Sergeant Bill Bennett is on the picture.nextpage

This picture shows the marchpast in the Remembrance Parade at High Ercall in 1956. This photo was e-mailed to us by Norman Phillips, of Watton, Norfolk.

His father was Wing Commander Henry Phillips, commanding officer of 29 Maintenance Unit at RAF High Ercall, which used to be one of Shropshire's major air bases.nextpage

Ninety years ago soldiers of the 4th Battalion of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry charged up the ridge on the horizon under intense fire in one of the greatest exploits of Shropshire soldiers in history – the Battle of Bligny.

After taking Bligny Hill, near Rheims in France, they then came under further artillery fire – from their own side, unaware that the hill had been captured.

For their heroism on June 6, 1918, the battalion was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French.

This photo was taken by Mr Cliff Jones, of Wem, who visited the site as a sort of pilgrimage – his father Sam Jones fought in the battle and was wounded during it, or around that time (he never spoke about it).

Cliff has written and researched his father's military career and compiled it into a book, called The Youngest Son.nextpage

Bridgnorth's Remembrance Day parade is seen here in 1950. This is one of a number of photos given to Shrewsbury historian and author David Trumper by Roger Jones, of Shrewsbury.

One of the police mace bearers is Constable Roger Jones himself – he is nearest the camera. The farther mace police bearer is Constable John Constable.nextpage

This weekend Britain will remember her fallen. But it is also worth remembering that many people who fought and died in our cause came from countries around the world.

This photo shows pilots of 131 Squadron – most or all of them Belgians – at RAF Atcham in front of a Spitfire.

This squadron was based at the airfield, near Shrewsbury, in the autumn of 1941 and the photo is from about that time.

From left, two unknowns, Georges Deltour, Emile Plas, Henri Gonay, Roger de Wever, Andre Plisnier, Desire Guillaume, and Alain Boussa.

Picture: Andre Barnextpage

During World War One Prees Heath was transformed into a vast Army training camp, comprising large numbers of wooden huts.

This postcard picture loaned to us by Audrey and Peter Edgerton, of Whixall, shows what appears to have been an informal war memorial at the base.

The plaque reads: "To all officers, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and men who after serving in Prees Heath Camp made the supreme sacrifice for God, King and Empire.

"Greater Love than this no Man hath, that a Man lay down his life for his friends. St John." It looks as if this memorial was by one of the huts. Does anyone know anything about it and what happened to it?nextpage

This old print from our files was originally published in the Shropshire Journal on March 12, 1971, and shows Hanwood Methodist Church, which had just been put up for sale.

The accompanying story said that the church had been unused for three years and was being sold because there were only two Methodist churchgoers in Hanwood.

It had been built on September 19, 1912 - the exact date seems a bit strange, so maybe this was when building work started - at a cost of £756, the article added.