Author name: Adrian Smith

1/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Leslie Harold Lodge was born on 3 July 1895 at Five Acres, Coleford, Gloucestershire shortly before before his family moved to Bream. He was the son of Henry Lodge (1858-1928), who was a coal miner, and Hannah Maria Lodge (formerly Jones) (1860-1911). The family home in Bream was eventually to be […]

Army Cyclist Corps Stanley’s active service appears to have come to an end early in 1917, when he suffered injuries in the course of his duties and in the course of treatment to recover, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Stanley Lockey was born in Naunton, near tow-on-the-Wold in late 1896. His parents were George Lockey

5th Reserve Battalion, Guards Machine Gun Regiment Unfortunately, no Army Service Record or Pension Record papers have survived for Private Little, so there is a lack of firm information about him or his Army service. Evidence suggests that George William Little was born at Twyning in 1896. His mother, Mary, was the only parent named

5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William Henry Jordan was born in Tewkesbury in the last quarter of 1890, the son of Henry and Julia Jordan of Quay Lane, Tewkesbury. He enlisted at Tewkesbury into the Gloucestershire Regiment with the number 1802 but at some point transferred to the Labour Corps (246112). His commemoration on the Cheltenham

Royal Marine Light Infantry John Ansloe Jordan was born at Bisley on 23 Janary 1897 and the son of Thomas and Christian Jordan, one of four children. His father was a shepherd and the 1911 Census records that he lived with his family at Nalour Farm, Bisley. He enlisted into the Royal Marine Light Infantry

2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment George Enoch James was one of two brothers who died as result of war service in 1918 and both were their parents’ only sons. He was born in Chipping Campden in 1893. His parents were Enoch (1852-1927) and his wife, Fanny Letitia , née Howman (1857-1947). The couple had two daughters

1st Home Service Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment Francis William James was born in Cirencester in 1882 and Frank as he appears to have been known, is unusual in that after volunteering his services early in the war and being discharged, as medically unfit, he was re-engaged after a relatively short time. His parents were

5th Battalion, Grenadier Guards William Henry Jacques was born on 11 May 1893 in Upleadon, near Newent and baptised in Upleadon on 3 September 1893. William was the son of William Jacques and Rosina (née Drew), and his siblings were Hannah Rosina (born 1877), Alfred Thomas (1880), Eleanor May (also known as Ellen – 1882),

Cheshire Regiment William Ewart Jacques was born on 19 January 1899 and was the eldest son of George and Alice Jacques who were living in Bowbridge, Stroud. Neither were local, George having been born in Banbury, Oxfordshire in 1870, and Alice in Denbigh, North Wales in 1867. George was a boot/shoe maker. William had a

Devonshire Regiment & Labour Corps (102215) Robert Thomas Jackson was baptised at Huntley Church on 9 July 1893. The record gives his mother as Alithea (Althea) Jackson who is described as a ‘single woman’; no father’s name is given. On checking the records, Althea Williams married Richard Jackson in 1869 and appears to have had

1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Louis Ethelbert Jackson was born on 6 February 1892 and he enlisted into the 1/5th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment on 6 August 1914, when aged 22. He declared himself single living at 98 Seymour Road, Gloucester and his occupation a timber trade foreman. Evidence from his Medal Index Card suggests