New blue plaque set to honour lives of decorated First World War heroes

THE lives of two Holyhead brothers who fought and died in the First World War could soon be commemorated on an historic building in Holyhead.

- By DALE SPRIDGEON

Anglesey County Council planners want to mount a blue plaque on the external wall of the Plas Alltran building to commemorate it as the birthplace of the Fox-Russell brothers.

Born at Plas Alltran, and decorated for bravery, Captain John Fox Russell of the Royal Army Medical Corps received the Military Cross and Victoria Cross (posthumously) while his younger brother Lt Henry Fox Russell, a member of the Royal Flying Corps, received the Military Cross.

The plaque is proposed to be acutely angled on a corner location between Turkey Shore Road and Llanfawr Road on the property, which is also known by some as the Doctor's House.

A house and surgery was built there in 1890-91 as part of a larger project to regenerate what was then called the Blackbridge area of Holyhead.