Author name: Adrian Smith

9th Battalion, East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) Henry Croome Jackman was born on 3 June 1895, at Wandsworth, Surrey, the son of James Croome and Mary Ellen Jackman. He was a single man living at Breadstone, near Berkeley, Gloucestershire. He applied for an Officer’s commission in July 1915 and was considered fit at his medical […]

2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards George Ingram was a farm labourer, who became a policeman prior to enlisting in the Army and who died of wounds received during the Battle of the Somme. He was born on 6 August 1891 at Shorncote (situated halfway between Kemble and South Cerney). In the census returns for 1901 and

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Leonard John Ible was born in Dymock on 10 January 1887, one of six sons and one daughter born to William and Ann Ible. On 13 June 1904, aged 17, he joined the Great Western Railway, as a porter at Gloucester Station although he did not stay there long, leaving on

Royal Army Service Corps Daniel Charles Hyett was one of six children (all males) born to Daniel and Florence Sarah Hyett née Dobbing. He was born at Huntley in the Forest of Dean on 26 July 11896 and at the time of the 1911 Census was living with the rest of his family at 21

Royal Garrison Artillery Charles Francis Hutchings was born at Redditch, Worcestershire on 24 June 1883. His parents were Hannah Sarah (née Sloman) and Ion John Hutchings and he had four sisters – Ethel Lavinia, born 1885; Alice Mabel (1887); Annie Elizabeth (1893) and Louisa (1878). The 1891 Census shows Charles to be living at Aston,

19th Battalion, Welsh Regiment George Hussey was born in Lydbrook in 1883, son of Thomas Henry Hussey, a tinplate worker, (born 1853) and Eva (née Mercy) (1856-1927). George Hussey, a tinplate worker, married Annetta Mary Davies at Lydbrook (Holy Jesus) Church on 4 March 1906. There were two sons of the marriage. At the time

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Henry James Hunt was born in Badgeworth, near Cheltenham in 1887 and was the son of James and Sarah Ann Hunt (née Wright). His siblings were Sarah Clara Louisa (born 1888), William Benjamin (1890), Sidney (1894) and Edith (1896). Henry married Lily Louisa Freeman at the Cheltenham Register Office on 23

‘A’ Supply Company, Army Service Corps Daniel James Hamblett was born in 1895, the son of Joseph and Eliza Hamblett. He lived at 25 Melbourne Street , Gloucester and his occupation, upon enlistment, was a baker. On 24 March 1915 he joined ‘A’ Supply Company of the Army Service Corps. His Army career lasted a

1st Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment Edward William Hammond was found dead, as a result of a gunshot wound to the heart, at his home, 35 Marlborough Road, Gloucester, on 2 October 1918, at about 7pm. A six chamber revolver was at his side. A Coroner’s Inquiry held at Chequers Inn, Painswick Road, Gloucester heard that Hammond

1st (Home) Service Garrison Battalion, Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment Private Hamblett was an early war volunteer, who never saw service abroad. Cecil James Bradley Hamblett was born at Kineton, a hamlet near Guiting Power in 1895 and was one of three children born to Samuel Hamblett (1857-1937) and his wife Sarah Ann (1857-1937).