Remembrance soldiers
Private Ronald Claude Oxley
King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
Killed in action September 26, 1917
Aged 20
Ronald was the foster son of A E Bloomer, a well-known Wellington photographer and press reporter.
He initially enlisted into the Shropshire Yeomanry under the name Oxley.
He is remembered with honour on the lych gate as R C Bloomer and in Bridgnorth, where he worked for a large drapery shop under the surname Oxley.
This photograph is reproduced courtesy of Patricia Simmons, who lives in France and offered this photograph while the Wellington Remembers group was looking into another name on the lych gate.
The Shropshire Star has teamed up with the Wellington Remembers 1914-1918 project to feature each day in the run up to Remembrance Sunday one of those who made the ultimate sacrifice and whose name is recorded on the town's lych gate war memorial at All Saints Parish Church. Volunteers have spent two years researching all 184 war dead named on the memorial.
