Author name: Adrian Smith

1/4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Alfred Allen Waldron was born in 1866 at Brixton, London, the son of Allan and Annie Waldron. Alfred had previously served in the National Reserve and enlisted in the Territorial Force, 1/4th Gloucestershire Regiment at Bristol on 7 August 1914, when he stated his age to be aged 39 years and […]

Army Service Corps Herbert Thomas Walding was born at Ruardean Hill on 9 September 1890, the son of Elijah and Lois Ann Walding. Elijah Walding was a coal miner. In 1911 the family was living at Ruardean Hill and Herbert was a grocer’s assistant. He was unmarried. Herbert was engaged in ‘Home Service’. There is

5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Henry John Waylen was born in June 1885 to Edwin Waylen and Emily (formerly Teale). Edwin was born in Berwick Bassett in Wiltshire whilst Emily came from Overbury. They had a total of six children of whom five were still alive in 1911. Edwin married Emily in Tewkesbury in 1877 and

Labour Corps William Wadley was born on 20 April 1882 at Kempley, near Dymock, Gloucestershire. He appears to have been one of fifteen children (six boys and nine girls) born to Christopher Wadley (1849-1919) an agricultural labourer and his wife Caroline (née Brown: 1849-1914). Like so many men from large families at that time he

1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment Unfortunately, there appears to be a lack of information available on Charles Voyce particularly with relation to his military service. Charles Voyce was born in Gloucester in 1889 and was the son of William Voyce, a waterman and his wife Annie. The couple appears to have had nine children, six

15th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Wilfred Vines was the fifth born of six sons of John William and Emma Vines of The Cloud in Wotton-under-Edge. John was born in Stroud in 1867 and worked as an elastic braider, probably at New Mill, Charfield. His wife, Emma, was born at Wotton in 1868. Wilfred was born at

14th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Leslie Vines was born at Kingswood, Gloucestershire in the second quarter of 1898, one of six sons born to John and Emma Vines of Wotton. On 18 June 1915 he enlisted into the Gloucestershire Regiment, at Wotton-under-Edge and stated his age to be 19, two years more than his true age.

301st Protection Company, Royal Defence Corps James Vickery was born at Tidenham, Gloucestershire (near Chepstow) in 1860 and was the son of Richard and Ann Vickery of Tidenham. He evidently served with the Welsh Regiment as number 1318 which indicated that he joined towards the end of 1885 until he was discharged in 1890, having

South Wales Borderers Sydney Venn was born in Gloucester in 1880 and was the son of George Alexander Venn who worked as a dock labourer (1848-1902) and his wife Mary Anne (née Hickman, born 1854). The couple appear to have had eleven children (three boys and eight girls), of who nine were surviving at the

3rd Australian Pioneers, Australian Imperial Force Hubert Chamberlain Vale was born in Cheltenham on 11 February 1882, the son of Benjamin who was a house painter and Elizabeth Vale, who at that time were living at 36 Hungerford Street, Cheltenham. At the time of the 1891 Census the couple had seven children. Prior to the

13th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment (Forest of Dean Pioneers) Thomas Charles Underwood was born in Tewkesbury in 1876, the son of Frederick and Martha of Well Alley. In 1891, aged 15, he was working as a coal miner in Cwmbran, Monmouthshire. In the autumn of 1899 he had returned and married Sylvia Hannah Gardner; subsequently they