Author name: Adrian Smith

3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Teddy (as he appears to have been known) Giles’ time in the Army appears to have been very short and he probably did not complete basic training. Edward George Giles was born in Fairford in the first half of 1898 and his baptism in the local parish church was on […]

1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Charles William Giles was born in the first quarter of 1893, the son of William Henry and Rosa Giles, who lived at Avenall’s Parade, Old Bath Road, Cheltenham. According to the 1911 census the couple had four children, two of whom died in infancy. He enlisted in the 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion

1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Charles Gibbons was born on 7 January 1893 at Ampney Crucis, just east of Cirencester and was baptised on 9 April of that year. His parents were Charles Gibbons (1863-1945), a domestic gardener and his wife Mary Ann (née Smith: 1861-1929). According to the 1911 Census the couple had eleven children,

2/4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Augustus Frederick Gibbons was the son of Frederick and Sarah Gibbons, who lived at 80 Upper Bath Road, Cheltenham. He was born in about 1881. According to the 1911 census his occupation was a greengrocer’s assistant, which was his occupation on attestation. On 11 December 1915 he attested into the Gloucestershire

Machine Gun Corps Percy Geyton was born on 17 June 1892 at Lower Swell, near Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. He was the eldest of four boys born to William Richard Geyton and his wife Mabel Jane (née Gillett). William Gillett was the manager of the wine and spirit department of Cirencester Brewery in Cricklade Street. Percy was

8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Francis Edward Gerrish was one of 12 children born to John William and his wife Harriet Louisa (née Parker) of Painswick. His birth was registered in the third quarter of 1896, but he was not baptised until 15 October 1899 when his younger sister, Alice was baptised. Francis has both Edward

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) William Thompson George died on 18 October 1918 aged 25 years from of complications following an operation to remove a brain abscess at a military hospital at Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase in Staffordshire. He was the husband of Maud C George of Haughwood Gate, Woolhope, Fownhope, Herefordshire (they married in the

Army Service Corps (Motor Transport) There are many different gravestones in the churchyard of St Peter’s Church, Rendcomb representing the lives of many of the village’s citizens across the centuries. But perhaps most distinctive amongst them is the distinctive white stone of a lone Commonwealth War Grave, that of Private Harold Edmund Gawthorne of the

2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment George Norton Gastrell was born 17 August 1890 at West Derby in Liverpool, the second eldest son of Edward Jessie and Susannah Jane Gastrell. By the time of the 1901 census the family was living in the St Luke’s Parish area of Cheltenham, George Gastrell being a commercial traveller and

Royal Navy – HMS Vivid Ernest Grantley Gasser was born on 13 June 1889 at Sharpness, Gloucestershire. He was one of four sons and two daughters born to Thomas and Jane Gasser of Lock View, Sharpness Docks. His father was a butcher and grocer, who died in May 1909. Ernest enlisted on 3 April 1917

8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment There is very little information on Private Garraway’s Army service, probably because it was of very short duration. Archibald Frank Garraway was born in Tetbury in 1879 (he was baptised there on 4 May 1879). He was one of eight children, born between 1876-1891) to William Garraway (1852-1918) and his wife