Author name: Adrian Smith

19th Company, Royal Army Medical Corps Alfred Frederick Hamblett was born at Gloucester in 1891, the son of Joseph and Eliza Hamblett. Finding details about him from census returns has proved difficult but ‘family tree’ information published on Ancestry, posted by what appears to be the Hamblett family, is more than likely accurate. Alfred was […]

49th Reserve Brigade, Royal Field Ambulance Henry (Harry) Wallace Hancliff was born in Warwick in the second quarter of 1874 and was the son of William Edward (a builder’s shop foreman) and Ellen Hancliff. The couple had six children, Louisa, Emily, Harry, Rosina, Florence and Walter. William died in 1887, aged 53, whilst the couple

6th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment Information on John Hanks, pre-war and Army service appears to be very sparse. It is believed that he was born in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire in about 1878 and was the son of John Hanks, a general labourer and his wife Jane. At the time of the 1891 Census the family lived at

2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William Henry Hawkins was born in Sheepscombe, Gloucestershire in early 1887. His parents were Joseph Henry (a gardener) and his wife Charlotte Martha. The couple had three children, a daughter Florence (born 1886), William (born 1887) plus another who probably died in infancy. At the time of the 1901 Census the

1st Battalion, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry William Henry Hawkins was born at Shifnal, Shropshire on 15 November 1883. He was the son of Robert Hawkins (1863-1939), an iron worker and his wife Phoebe (nee Wilkes: 1862-1918) and they had ten children. The 1901 Census indicates that William was employed (aged 17) as a servant at

CCB Gp Labour Corps Thomas Henry Hawkins was born in Gloucester in 1896. He was the second eldest child (eldest son) of Samuel Hawkins (1873-1962), a corn miller and his wife Eleanor (Ellen) Sarah (nee Taylor: 1868-1939). The couple had seven children, four boys and three girls and all had survived by the time of

2/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment The 1911 Census records that Percival (Percy) St Clair Hawkins was living in Cheltenham at 27 Granville Street with his parents, Frank Albert and Caroline Comfort Hawkins and some of his siblings. Up to that point the couple had produced eight children, of whom six had survived. Percy had been born

3/10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment Frederick Arthur Hawkins was born in Gloucester in 1890 to Sydney and Mary Hawkins, one of three sons of whom only two (Frederick and elder brother Albert) were still alive at the time of the 1911 Census. Sydney Hawkins was a tailor, believed to have died in 1898, aged 42 and

3/6th (Reserve) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Charles Hawkins was born in Bulley, Gloucestershire in 1883, and baptised on 20 January 1884 in Churcham, Gloucestershire. His parents were Joseph Hawkins and Elizabeth Saunders, and his full siblings were William Henry (1872), Alice (1888) and Florence Mary (1890). Following his father’s death in 1895, his mother remarried in

5th Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment) Information on Raymond Hawkes’ military service is scant but sufficient to give a reasonable insight into it. Raymond Hawkes was born in Poole Keynes, a small village about four miles south of Cirencester in 1889. According to records he was baptised on 30 June of that year. His

1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment Only scraps of information have survived in respect of Albert William Hatton’s military service: indications are that he was an ‘old soldier’ prior to the Great War. Albert William Hatton was born at Chedglow, near Malmesbury in 1883 (baptised on 8 July 1883). He was one of nine children born to