Author name: Adrian Smith

Royal Navy – HMS President Harold Christian was born in Cheltenham on 29 September 1867 as the eldest son of Rear Admiral Henry Christian MVO, a former Chief Constable of Gloucestershire, and Emily Margaret Christian (née Moore) of Heighthorne, The Park, Cheltenham. He was educated privately and at Dartmouth Naval College, being appointed a Naval […]

26th Light Railway Section, Royal Engineers William Josiah Chivers was born in July 1886 at Rainbow Hill, Worcester. He was the son of Henry Thomas Chivers and his wife Elizabeth (née Pulman), who had married in February 1882 and had five children. The eldest child was Ada (born 1883) followed by Cecil Henry John (1885),

265th (1st Welsh Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery Norman’s birth was registered in Stroud in the second quarter of 1887 but he was not baptised until March 1900 at the same time as his brothers Gerald, 16 and Albert, 15. Norman Gilbert Chew was the youngest of six children born to Albert and Frances Chew.

1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Lancelot Conway Chess was born at Gotherington, Cleeve, Gloucestershire in early 1878. His mother was Anna Amelia Chess, who appears to have been known as ‘Hannah’. Born in 1846, she appears have never married and died in 1926. The 1881 census shows her living at Gotherington with four children — Arthur

Labour Corps It has proved difficult to ascertain accurate information about Thomas Chamberlain. The National Archives holds a Medal Index Card for him, and this states that he originally served as a Gunner (number 86119) in the Royal Field Artillery, a fact confirmed in the CWGC Register. The card also states that he went to

Royal Army Service Corps George Chalk was born in Chelsea, London in 1892 to William (a farmer) and Jessie Chalk, of Chipstead in Surrey. Although originating from London prior to the Great War he was living in Gloucestershire and was employed as a taxi driver by the Bristol Tramways & Carriage Co Ltd (Cheltenham Branch),

‘A’ Battery, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery Charles Edward Chainey was born at Blockley, then part of Worcestershire, on 9 December 1886 and he was the son of William Frederick and Sarah Chainey. According to the 1911 census this couple had fourteen children (all but one surviving at 1911). William Chainey was the landlord of the

22nd Battalion, Canadian Infantry Odilon Cayer was Canadian born to Samuel and Marie Bouche Cayer of St Octave de Dosquet, Co. Lotbiniere (which is in the Chaudiere-Appalaches region of Quebec). He was born on 6 September 1893 at St Flavier, Quebec. The service records of those who served in the Canadian Army in the Great

16th (Reserve) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Frank Causon was born at 9 Levis Court, St Nicholas, Gloucester on 21 October 1894. He was one of ten children born to Frederick Causon who was a bricklayer (died 1902) and his wife Martha Ann (née Timms), who died in 1930. It would appear that after leaving school Frank

Army Service Corps William Henry Caudle was born at Leckhampton in the fourth quarter of 1886, the son of John and Ellen Caudle, who lived at Grantham, Leckhampton. He was educated at Cheltenham Grammar School and prior to the war he worked as a clerk in the Education Department of London County Council. In 1909

Royal Flying Corps The 1901 Census has a man of this name down as being born at Gosport, Hampshire in 1889 and at time of the census he was a scholar at Christ’s Hospital School, Newgate, London. It cannot becertain that this is the same man. Archibald James Cathie does not appear to be present