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118th Division, Signals Company, Royal Engineers Whitmore Vavasour Powell was born at Kingsland, Herefordshire in early 1894. He was the son of Patcell Powell and his wife Harriet Eliza (née Lewis). In the 1901 Census Patcell described himself as a retired farmer. He and Harriet had married in 1893. Patcell was 56 years and Harriet […]

2/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Archibald Ernest Powell was the eldest of nine children born to James and Eliza Powell who were both born in Stroud. His birth was registered in last quarter of 1883. He was baptised aged four at a joint ceremony with his three-year-old brother, Charles and his brother Albert at St Lawrence

1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Osman Trevor Powell was born in 1894 at Stonehouse, Gloucestershire. He was the son of Trevor Barrett Powell and his wife Ella Charlotte (nee Knibbs). At the time of the 1901 Census the family lived at 78 York Buildings, Gloucester but by the time of the 1911 Census had moved to

119th Railway Operating Company, Royal Engineers Tom Ponter was born in Gloucester in about May 1889. He was the son of John Alfred Ponter (1851-1917) and his wife Ann Maria (née Jefferys; 1852-1931). John Ponter was a saw sharpener at a saw mill. At the time of the 1901 Census Tom lived with his parents

Royal Air Force William Ponting was born at Taynton, Gloucestershire in 1881, the son of Thomas and Alice (née Weekes) Ponting (both of whom died in 1922). William appears to have worked as a draper’s assistant in East London, prior to the war. Little is known of his war service, however, his Royal Air Force

2/1st Battalion, Suffolk Yeomanry (Duke of York’s Loyal Suffolk Hussars) James Pocklington was born in late 1895 at Amber Hill, which is approximately six miles north, north west of Boston in Lincolnshire. He was one of six children (four boys, two girls) born to farmer Joseph William Pocklington and his wife Mary Elizabeth (née Goose).

Royal Engineers Sidney Pitman was born on 9 May 1896 in the small village of Gotherington, just outside Bishop’s Cleeve. He was one of eleven children (seven boys and four girls) born to Joseph Pitman (a domestic gardener) and his wife Emma (née Long) and their fifth son. Ten of the children had survived by

14th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment Charles Pinchin was born in early 1888 and was one of ten children born to William Henry Pinchin and his wife Louisa (née Redwood). Charles was born at Horton, near Chipping Sodbury (now South Gloucestershire). His father worked as a groom and moved to the town of Lydney around 1900 and

7th Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps Roy Nelson Pillow was born on 18 December 1894, the son of Henry and Harriet Pillow of Minerva, Herne Hill, Geelong, Victoria (latterly Laurel Bank Parade, Geelong). He was educated at Geelong College, between 1909-14 and their heritage website gives some detailed information on the time he spent there.

Royal Navy – HMS Nerissa Grenville Edgar Pigott was born at St Paul’s, Cheltenham, on the 10 December 1876, the eldest son of a furniture dealer of 11 Regent Place, Swindon Road, Cheltenham (who had the same name) and Sarah Pigott. Grenville (junior) was a Telegraph Messenger when he originally enlisted in the Royal Navy,

599th Agricultural Company, Labour Corps William John Phipps appears to have been an early war recruit for the Glosters, who was posted to work on the land, as part of the Labour Corps. He was born mid-1895 at Watermoor, near Cirencester and was baptised on 4 August of that year. His parents were William Phipps