Author name: Adrian Smith

Louis Reginald Pearce was born on 28 May 1891 at 11 East End Road, Wotton Gloucester and was the only child of John William and Edith Pearce who were both born respectively at Brimscombe and Eastcombe. By 1901 the family were living at the Knapp Bourne Brimscombe. John 41 was recorded as being a wood […]

3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William Payne’s military service was very short lived: there is a conflict with his family details in the CWGC Register, with evidence from other sources. William Henry Payne was born in Leonard Stanley in the first half of 1886. According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission ‘Debt of Honour’ records

2nd Battalion, King’s Shropshire Regiment George Charles Payne was born in 1903, son of George James Sindery Payne (1869-1952) who was a general labourer and Helen (née Colwell: 182-1945) of Longhope. The couple had three children by the time of the 1911 Census, only two surviving – George and sister Helen (born 1906). George was

3/7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment James Pass was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire in the third quarter of 1885, the son of Rachael and the late James Pass, of Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove. As with so many members of the Army in the Great War no Service Record has survived but Soldiers Died in the Great War states

2/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Ernest Jonah Pass was born at Birtles in Cheshire, in the spring of 1897. He was the son of Simon and Mary Pass, whom the 1911 Census records as having twelve children, all but one having survived up to that year. In 1901 the family was living in Ruabon, near Wrexham

269th Company, Machine Gun Corps Albert William Partlett was born 7 July 1898 in Chilson, Oxfordshire and was the son of George Henry Partlett and Elizabeth Smith. He had a full sibling sister Clara, who was born in 1900 at Lyneham near Chipping Norton, Oxon. Following Elizabeth’s death in 1901, George married Ann Jane Smith

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) Albert James Enoch Parsons (known as Bert) was born in Cranham, Gloucestershire on 26 May 1893, the eldest child of Albert William Parsons and Eliza Jane Parsons (née Fownes). In the 1901 Census, Bert was living at Well Alley, High Street, Tewkesbury with his parents and three siblings; Frank aged one,

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Jesse Benjamin Orchard was a pre-war career soldier with almost nineteen years unbroken service. He was born at Old Sodbury in the south of Gloucestershire in 1877 and baptised on 14 October of that year. His parents were Robert John Orchard (1836-1884), a general labourer and his wife Ruth (née Russell:

Royal Engineers (Royal Monmouthshire) George Oliver was born at Charlestown, Cornwall in 1891 and before joining the Army, he worked as a cooper. He attested for the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (RMRE), at Monmouth, on 2 December 1914. He first served overseas with No 5 Siege Company in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force which landed in

3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Frederick Oliver was born in Bristol in about 1891. He was one of eleven children born to Robert Oliver (born about 1851), a quarryman, and Elizabeth (née Hoare) (1860-1915), but moved to Coleford when he was aged about four. He became a coal miner and, before the Great War, the