Author name: Graham Adams

Army Service Corps (Motor Transport) Private King has an entry in ‘Leaving all that was dear – Cheltenham in the Great War’ (J Devereux and G Sacker), however, his forenames are incorrectly shown as ‘Archibald Thomas’. This volume was written before the release of a number of records in the National Archives and therefore it […]

2nd Reserve Battalion, Royal Engineers Albert Edward King was born on 5 February 1879, the fourth and youngest child and only son of Charles and Sarah King who lived on Chalford Hill. The 1891 Census states that Charles, aged 45, was a stick dresser and his two daughters, Rosina 15 and Frances 17, were bone

Army Service Corps (Motor Transport) Henry Kinchin was a country boy, who moved to Birmingham and volunteered for military service in his mature years. He was born in Mickleton, Gloucestershire in 1871, the son of William Kinchin (1849-1925), a shepherd and his wife Mary (née Hall; 1849-1932) and was one of their nine children. After

Royal Field Artillery Sydney Kilby was born in 1885, son of John Kilby (1847-1904), a colliery check weigh man, and Matilda (née Aston) (1851-1901) of Five Acres, near Coleford. Examination of the 1891 and 1901 Census indicates that the couple had eleven children, eight boys (all of whom ended up working in one of the

13th Observatory Company, Royal Defence Corps James Kidd was one of two sons, whom the parents James and Tamar Kidd lost in the Great War. The couple had had eight children at the time of the 1911 Census, all having survived. Brother Sydney was five years older and died of wounds in France on 20

10th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment William Henry Nelson Keyte was born in Chaddesden, Derby in September 1893, the son of Winfield John Keyte and Annie Elizabeth (née Grove). He was known to his family as Nelson, and had at least one sibling, Ada Elsie (1890). William was enlisted in Cheltenham on 2 September 1914, aged 21,

2nd Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) William John Kerr was the eldest son of Captain Russell James and Miriam Matilda Kerr of The Haie, Newnham-on-Severn. He was born in 1890 when his parents were living at Oakley Street, Chelsea. His father was a barrister. He was educated at Bradfield College before going to Sandhurst from

2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards Ernest Aubry Kemp was born at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in the final months of 1887. He was the son of John (a farm labourer) and Elizabeth Kemp. According to the 1911 Census the couple had eight children, all but one surviving at the time of the census. They lived at Caistor

Royal Gloucestershire Hussars & Remount Service Howard William Kemble was born on 12 June 1871. In 1901 he married Margaret Emily Heron- Maxwell at St George’s, Hannover Square, London. They lived at The Homestead, Quenington, near Fairford. Howard was a member of the Gloucestershire Yeomanry, attached to the Army Service Corps Remount unit at Blackheath,

6th Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps Thomas Llewellyn Keen is the only Australian Flying Corps (AFC) man buried at Leighterton who was the recipient of the Military Cross. He was also buried on the day that AFC activity at both Minchinhampton and Leighterton aerodromes came to an end. In many ways his eventful service career

2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Until 1931 Blockley was an enclave of Worcestershire, after which it came under Gloucestershire. Benjamin Albert Keen was born in Blockley on 6 February 1893 and was baptised there on 2 April 1893. In most records his middle name of Albert does not feature. His parents were James Keen (1843-1905) a