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1st Battalion, Herefordshire Regiment Tom Miles was born in Ruardean in 1888, son of William Miles, a collier, and his wife Mary. Tom attested for the Herefordshire Regiment at Ruardean on 7 April 1908, giving his birthplace and abode as Ruardean, and occupation as collier at New Pit Co. His age was erroneously stated as […]

5th (Reserve) Battalion, Machine Gun Corps John Miflin was born in 1883 (or possibly 1886) in Gloucester and was an old soldier, having enlisted as a regular soldier (number 7198) in the Gloucestershire Regiment, in the first week of March 1905 and he was on the Reserve List for the 2nd Battalion when hostilities broke

2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment Francis William Merriman was a career soldier who was probably just short of becoming ‘time expired’ when the Great War began and he was recalled to the colours. He was born in Broad Campden, a village just outside Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire in 1885, the son of George Thomas Merriman (1843-1898), a

10th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) George Gerald Merrick was born in 1896 in Stockton on Teme, Worcestershire, son of Edwin Merrick (1864-1927), a gamekeeper, and Fanny Merrick (formerly James) (1871-1907), of Rail Reddings, Alvington, Gloucestershire. Before joining the Army he worked as a cowman at Highgrove Farm, St Briavels. George attested, at Lydney,

10th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) Henry Fielder Merrett was born at Standish, Gloucestershire in early 1886, the son of Henry Fielder Merrett, a farmer, and his wife Constance Kate. The couple had five children, two sons and three daughters. He appears to have followed his father into agricultural work and after being employed in

8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Charles James Meredith was born in Tewkesbury in 1880 and moved with his family to Bloomsbury Street, Cheltenham in 1886. Prior to the war, he worked as a drayman for the Cheltenham Original Brewing Company, enlisting in the Gloucestershire Regiment in September 1914 and going to France on 18 July 1915

Royal Air Force Allan John Braine Meikle was born in the third quarter of 1900 at Barnham, Suffolk, the only son of James (a farmer) and Elizabeth Meikle, who lived at Cotehay Farm, Andoversford, Gloucestershire. He was educated at Belmore House School, Cheltenham and had been an apprentice at Alfred Herbert’s engineering company, The Butts,

1st Battalion, Herefordshire Regiment Lewis Robert Meek, also found as Louis Robert, and Louis, was born at Ruardean in 1887, the son of John Meek, a collier, and his wife Sarah Ann. As Louis Meek he attested for the Herefordshire Regiment, at Ruardean, on 7 April 1908, giving his birthplace and abode as Ruardean, and

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William Owen Meddings was born in the Parish of St Mary’s, Cheltenham in the second quarter of 1874. He was the son of Henry Meddings, a bricklayer and his wife Sarah and one of six children. It appears that between the time of the 1881 and 1891 Census his mother died,

10th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment The CWGC Register shows the date of death for Private Meadows as being 24 August 1917, a date which is also shown on his standard CWGC headstone. However, the Register of Birth, Marriages & Deaths clearly shows that death was registered during the third quarter of 1916 and the church burial

Army Service Corps The Commonwealth War Graves Commission ‘Debt of Honour’ Register shows Private H Meaden of the Army Service Corps (ASC), who died on 6 July 1916, as being buried in the Cirencester (Chesterton) Cemetery. The entry gives no further details, other than he has a standard CWGC headstone. A check of the Birth,