Behind My Hindleys Phyl Sheppard traces her family ancestry back ...

WILLIAM THOMAS 1863 - 1944.
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church. The following year they had a daughter called Margaret Agnes (after
Grandma): she was born at 50 Aspinall Street on 13th July and baptised at
Lowe Street Methodist Chapel on October 28th.
These two uncles (Frank and Jim) were in the Army during the Great War
which ended in 1918, but we have no details about them. During the war
years Dad tried to enlist as a drummer-boy (he was in the local Boy Scout
band). Aged 17, he was under age but went to Liverpool to enlist in the
"Liverpool Scottish Regiment", where he had to give details of his place of
work and the name of his boss. When he went to work the next day his boss,
Mr. ("Fluffy") Davies, told him that as his work in the Railway Claims Dept.
was a "Reserved Occupation", he was unable to enlist. Instead, Dad helped
the War Effort by being part of a group of Scouts whose task it was to take
the wounded to hospital when they arrived in the trains at Woodside Station
in Birkenhead.
Wedding of William John & Phyllis Hindley
L to R: Phyllis; William John; Gwendoline Capper; Edward
Heaps Hindley
In 1923 on September 22nd William John Hindley and Phyllis Jones (Father