Author name: Graham Adams

8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Lionel Phipps was the fourth child and only son of Richard and Sarah Phipps (née Mynett) of Bisley, Stroud. Both were occupied as mill hands. Lionel’s birth was registered in the last quarter of 1886 in Stroud. The 1891 Census, which spells Lionel as ‘Lynol’ shows the family living at Bisley. […]

Royal Air Force According to Corporal Phillpott’s Royal Air Force (RAF) record in the National Archives (AIR 79/604/65748) he was born at All Saints’, Gloucester in 1891. However, a search of the Births, Marriages and Deaths Register indicates that he was born in the second quarter of 1883. His CWGC record indicates his age on

Army Service Corps William Charles Phillips was born on 5 March 1884 at Tetbury, Gloucestershire. He was the son of Charles (a baker, who lived from 1855-1894) and his wife Elizabeth Emma Hooper, born in 1853, year of death unknown. William was baptised at Luckington on 8 June 1884. He had a sister who was

5th (Service) Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Very few records have survived relating to Private Phillips’ military service. Alfred John Phillips was born at Oddington in early 1895 and was baptised on 19 January of that year. He was the son of Thomas Richard Phillips (1856-1907), a stockman on a farm and his wife

127th Battery, Royal Field Artillery Sidney Alfred Perry was born on 6 June 1895 to Sidney Owen Perry (1870-1912), a parcel agent and his wife Eva Annie (née Smith) (1871-1905). According to the 1911 Census the couple had six children, one of whom had died. In 1911 Sidney was living with his father at 85

2nd Squadron, Australian Flying Corps Gilbert Douglas Perry was born at Petersham, Sydney, New South Wales (NSW) in 1893, the son of G A and M Perry, who lived at 247 Marrickville Road, Marrickville, Sydney, NSW. He was a civil engineer and surveyor when he enlisted at Sydney on 9 March 1915, declaring that he

3rd Reserve Brigade, Royal Field Artillery Alfred Perry was one of six children born to Harry (Henry) and Emily Perry. Emily was born in Stroud and Harry in Stonehouse. I can find no baptism record but an Alfred Perry’s birth was registered in Stroud during the first quarter of 1884 which matches his given age

1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment George Victor Cummings Pepperell was born in late 1892 in Gloucester. He was one of three sons born to William H and Ada Eliza Pepperell. William was a hairdresser, whose business was at 5 Worcester Street, Gloucester and at the time of the 1911 Census George was a hairdresser’s assistant in

52nd Motor Company, Army Service Corps Lionel Francis Overthrow was born in Gloucester on 4 August 1891. He was one of twelve children born to William Thomas and Harriet Annie Overthrow, of whom only eight were surviving at the time of the 1911 Census. The family lived at No 10 Blackfriars, Gloucester but between 1911

1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment John James Murray was born 1890 in Cardiff, the son of John and Mary Murray. John’s father was born in Pembroke Dock, an important army base during the 19th Century, so John may have been born into a military family. John became a regular soldier before the outbreak of the

3/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Lionel Edwin Moulton was born at St Briavels, Gloucestershire in 1886, son of Henry Moulton (1847-1936), a gardener, and Jane (formerly Scott) (1843-1927). Lionel married, at St Briavels on 3 July 1912, Harriett Smith (1885-1968). He was then a gardener but was later a roadman and general labourer. There were two