7th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
Robert George Fry was born in 1895 at Charlton Kings, to Cornelius and Harriet Fry, who lived at 6 Andover Street, Park Place, Cheltenham.
He enlisted at Cheltenham on 31 August 1914, giving his occupation as farm labourer. According to his Medal Index Card he arrived in the Balkans on 19 June 1915. This was in fact an arrival at Gallipoli. In September 1915 he was evacuated from the Gallipoli Peninsular to Mudros with dysentery and on 19 September 1915 left there on board the HT Norlands bound for the UK.
He was invalided to the 3rd Western General Hospital, Cardiff, where he stayed from 2 October to December 1915.
On 27 December 1915 arrived in France (this cannot have been with the 7th Glosters, who remained in the Middle East, following the Gallipoli evacuation). On 12 June 1916 he suffered a gunshot wound to his left elbow and was treated at 9 Casualty Clearing Station (then situated at Lillers). He was transferred to 13 General Hospital at Boulogne before returning to England on 16 June 1916 and to 2nd Western General Hospital at Manchester. He remained there until 5 April 1917, after which he was discharged from the Army as unfit for further service on 25 April 1917 and was issued with a Silver War Badge.
Private Robert George Fry died on 7 February 1919, aged 22 — cause of death is unknown and is buried in Charlton Kings Cemetery, where a CWGC headstone marks his grave.
Researched by Graham Adams 22 July 2011