Author name: Adrian Smith

Royal Field Artillery The Bartlett family moved to Quenington in the autumn of 1900 from Poulton to the live at the Grandage. As agricultural workers, over the previous 15 years the family had lived in Winson, Bibury, and Poulton in Gloucestershire, and Filkins in Oxfordshire. William George Bartlett was born in the September Quar ter […]

Royal Army Service Corps Henry (Harry) Bartlett was born to John and Mary Ann Bartlett in early 1877 at Banbury, Oxfordshire and was baptised on 13 May 1877. He married Janet Beezly at Coln St Alwyns, Gloucestershire on 8 August 1904, when employed as a groom. The couple had one child (Henry born 18 July

4th ‘B’ Reserve Brigade, Royal Field Artillery Unfortunately, very little information has survived on Gunner Alfred Bartlett’s army service but certain assumptions can be made, using such data that is available. Alfred Bartlett was born in Oddington near Stow-on-the-Wold close to the Oxfordshire border in 1878 (but was not baptised until 16 May 1880). He

Royal Engineers John Joseph Barrow was born at Salford, Lancashire, in 1882, the son of Alexander Barrow and Sarah Ann (née Coleman). Prior to the war he was a plate layer on the railways and moved to Cheltenham to join the Charlton Kings section of the Great Western Railway Company. He helped to construct the

2/7th Battalion, Essex Regiment James Barrett’s story is similar to many who are buried in Gloucestershire: he was a young conscript into the Army who fell ill and died whilst undergoing basic training. James Barrett was born at Hungerford, Berkshire in 1896 His parents were George Barrett (1860-1932) and his wife Elizabeth (née Dennis; 1862-1924).

Labour Corps Harry George Barnfield was the youngest child of seven born to James and Alma Barnfield who were living at Tibbeswell Garden, Painswick (I cannot find a baptism record, but his birth was registered in the first quarter of 1890) James, who was born at Cam, gave his occupation at the 1891 Census as

Royal Flying Corps Edgar James Bannatyne was born in Limerick, Ireland on 7 February 1891, the son of Alexander Edmund and Alice Maude Bannatyne of Glenbevan, Croom, Co Limerick. He was educated at Wellington College and Caius College, Cambridge. He joined the 19th (Queen Alexandra’s Own Royal) Hussars in 1913 and went to France with

8th Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps Sydney Harold Banks-Smith was born at Cundletown, near Taree, New South Wales (NSW) in 1892, the son of Harold and Florence Banks-Smith. Harold died in 1897 and in 1902, Florence remarried to become Mrs Lodge, living at Nelson Street, Gordon, NSW. She was down as Sydney’s next of kin.

Devonshire Regiment Frank Cecil Ballinger was the third of 11 children born to Henry (Harry) and Julie Alice Ballinger (née Drive) of Stroud. Harry had been born in Badgeworth, Alice in Bisley. Frank was baptised together with his sister, Frances Ethel on 28 April 1895. Ethel died within her first year as did a brother,

Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force Grahame Balfour-Ogilvy was born at Salcombe, emigration to Australia is not known but certainly this was before the Boer War of 1899-1902, as during this he served as a sergeant in 4th South Australia Imperial Bushmen contingent. He enlisted at Adelaide on 22 May 1916, when aged 38 years

Royal Navy – HMS Collingwood George Adolphus Baldwin was born at Panteg Parish, Monmouthshire on 5 November 1887. He was the son of James and Hannah Baldwin (née Meredith) and at the time of the Census in 1891, was the seventh of their nine children. James Baldwin was a locomotive driver. By the time of