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9th Battalion, Australian Infantry John Daniel Manners Scales was born on 7 June 1881, at West Ham, London and was the son of George G R.Manners (born 1852) and Sarah J Scales; he was the third eldest of seven children. On 5 September 1907 he married Edith Wood, at St Peter’s Church, Grimsby where he […]

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment George Henry Saysum was born in Lydney in 1897, the son of William Saysum and his wife Martha (née Miles). He was one of at least four children, having a brother (William) and sisters Elizabeth (known as Cissie) and Florence (Flo). Prior to the Great War he was employed as a

Royal Flying Corps William Leslie Savage was the son of Arthur, a colonial merchant and his wife Rose Mary who had been born in Cape Colony, South Africa. He was born on 15 November 1898 in Surrey and the 1911 Census records the couple having four children. At the time of that census Leslie was

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Frederick Saunders was born at Gloucester in 1893. He left his occupation as a Doorman on 13 July 2012 and joined the Gloucestershire Regiment after signing Attestation for seven years, with an additional five in the Reserve. He was a short man, only 5 feet 5½ inches tall and weighed only

Royal Field Artillery Arthur Dudley Saunders was born in 1876 in Sutton St Nicholas, Herefordshire. He was the son of the Reverend David Arthur Fosbroke Saunders (1843-1914) and Mary Anne Saunders (formerly Morris) (1844-1919). The family moved to the Rectory, Hewelsfield in 1902 when Rev Saunders was installed as Rector of the parish, the living

9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William John Sallis was born in 1895 in the village of Forthampton, about three miles from Tewkesbury. He was the only son of farm labourer William Sallis (1864-1934) and his wife Alice June (née Lodge: 1864-1915). Besides William the couple had three daughters and all were surviving by the time of

Worcestershire Regiment Charles William Sallis was born in Dumbleton, Gloucestershire on 6 June 1888 and was the son of Samuel Thomas Jonas Sallis and his wife Harriet Louisa (née Wills). The couple had six children, equally divided between boys and girls. Samuel died in 1916, aged 63 and Harriet in 1915, aged 65. One of

30th Railway Labour Company, Royal Engineers Arthur Cecil Joseph Russell was a cabinetmaker by trade and had been born in spring 1978 at Small Heath in Birmingham. He and his wife Annie had married in Cheltenham in 1898 and by the time of the 1911 Census, Annie had given birth to seven children, of whom

5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment It is believed that Robert William Rowell was born in 1889 in Cheltenham and was the son of Robert and Louisa Rowell, née Elliott. If this is correct then it is known that his father died in 1898 and shortly after his mother re-married to become Louisa Etheridge. According to the

10th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Frederick Thomas James Parslow was born in Blaisdon in 1877, son of David Parslow (1848-1915), sub-postmaster of Blaisdon, and Elizabeth Parslow (formerly Mabbett) (1847-1937). He was a coachbuilder and carpenter by trade and also a bellringer and chorister at Blaisdon Church. Frederick died of wounds at Edinburgh War Hospital, Bangour on

7th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment Based on the age given at his enlistment into the Army shown as 19 years and 69 days, Bert Parrott would have been born on 6 September 1895. However, it transpires he gave false information at the time and his ‘Date of birth vide Birth Certificate 13/8/99’ was found to be