Author name: Adrian Smith

Royal Garrison Artillery Frederick Thomas Trinder was born at Highnam, near Gloucester in 1896. Records show that he was baptised on 6 September of that year. He was the son of John James Trinder (1857-1935) a waggoner on a farm and his wife Alice Elizabeth (née Merrick: 1857-1921). The couple had three children, Frederick and […]

Hampshire Regiment George Gilbert Trenfield (probably known as Gilbert) was born in April 1898, the son of George Henry and Agnes Mary Trenfield. They had one other son, William Henry (born 1902) and at time of the 1911 Census the family lived at 67 Hopewell Street, Gloucester. George has a Medal Index Card but this

3rd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment George Edward Townsend was born on 25 June 1884 and baptised at Whiteshill, Stroud on 7 September of that year. He was the second child of George and Tryphena Townsend. George gavehis occupation as carter. Their first child, Clara was baptised in February 1873. (Clara married in 1894, had two sons

‘Y’ Company, Army Service Corps Thomas Townley was born in Charlton Kings, Cheltenham in the early part of 1850 and he was baptised on 21 April that year. His parents were Robert (a labourer, born in 1811) and Hannah (a laundry worker, born 1814). As far as can be ascertained, the couple had seven children,

5th (Reserve) Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment Frederick Townley was born late in 1900, the son of James Arthur and Kate Elizabeth Townley. The 1911 Census states that the family, which included five children, were living at 18 Bennington Street in Cheltenham. At the time of submitting details for the CWGC Register, James and Kate Townley

44th New Brunswick Battalion, Canadian Infantry Alfred John Tooze was born on 10 September 1892 and according to his baptism record dated 9 October 1892, he was the son of Alfred and Eva Tooze. Alfred was a cabinet maker and the family lived at 2 Bath Terrace, Russell Street, Stroud. Alfred was the couple’s first

Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps Frances Mary Tooby was born in Ledbury, Herefordshire in 1894, daughter of Arthur Tooby (1866-1932), a stockman and slaughterman, and Mary Elizabeth (formerly Russell) (1858-1905). The family moved from Ledbury to Rockfield, Monmouth and then by 1901 they had moved to English Bicknor. Her widowed father remarried in 1909. She

5th Siege Company, Royal Engineers Joseph William Hancox Timbrell was born in the third quarter of 1897 at Yorkley Wood and later he and his brother, Thomas were adopted by Maurice and Elizabeth Prout of Howbeach, Parkend, Gloucestershire. On 14 May 1915 Joseph enlisted at Monmouth as a Sapper in the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers;

Royal Air Force Archibald George Thornhill was born at Lower Cam in 1892 and was the son of Edwin, who was a chimney sweep and Hannah Thornhill. At the time of the 1911 Census Archibald was employed as a comb grinder which is a role within part of the steel processing process at the firm

1st Battalion, King’s (Liverpool Regiment) Aubrey Lloyd St Clair Thomson was the son of George Frederick who was an artist and Mary Caroline Thomson. He was born in the third quarter of 1891 at The Cottage, Quendon, Saffron Walden, Essex. He was educated at Bedford School and attested for service in the Army at Bedford

Gloucestershire Regiment Harry Sidney Thompson was the son of Robert and Emma Thompson of Wall’s Court in Tewkesbury according to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database. Background information on the family is, however, scarce, possibly down to a variation in the spelling of names. The only concrete evidence appears on the 1911 Census which confirms