Author name: Graham Adams

2/3rd North Midland Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps Reginald Johnson was the son of George Samuel Johnson and his wife Alice Mary. According to the 1911 Census thirteen children were born to the couple inside twenty-five years of marriage of whom only seven were surviving at the time of the census. Reginald was the […]

Royal Engineers Herbert Jewell was a career soldier, who was born in Axbridge, near Bath, Somerset in 1875. On 16 October 1894, when aged 19 he enlisted into the Royal Engineers at Bristol, as a carpenter. He was promoted from Sapper to Corporal in 1904 and on 14 November 1909 to the rank of Serjeant.

3rd Battalion, Australian Machine Gun Corps William Robert Jerrom was born in 1889. He wasthe son of George Jerrom, who was the owner ofG Jerrom & Co, a general merchant store in Narrandera, southern New South Wales (NSW): it is probable that he worked in his father’s business as on his attestation papers he noted

21st Battalion, Australian Infantry Harry Everett Jenner was born at Midura, Victoria, Australia in 1892. Midura is situated on the Murray River, in the north-west of the State. By the time of the Great War his father had died and his next of kin was his mother, Mrs A Jenner, who lived at Nicholls Point,

Inland Water Transport, Royal Engineers John Jenkins was born at Longley, Gloucestershire on 14 December 1883. He was one of twelve children born to William Jenkins, a dock labourer, and his wife Ellen (née Howell). Only six children were still living at the time of the 1911 Census, when the family lived at 12 Albion

8th Battalion, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) Lionel Latchmore Jelf was born in Gloucester towards the end of 1899. According to the 1911 Census he was one of 12 children born to Walter Jelf (a fruit dealer) and his wife Catherine; two children had died prior to the census. The family lived at 2

494th Field Company, Royal Engineers Albert Ernest Jelf was born at Gloucester 1881, one of two children born to Henry (Harry) Theodore Jelf and his wife Julia (née Dearn). Albert had a sister, Florence May, born in 1886. Henry Jelf was a boatman, on a steam boat probably located in Gloucester Docks. Albert also worked

6th Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps The 28th of August 1918 was a black day for Minchinhampton Aerodrome, as three of its pilots were killed in one accident. Ernest Howard Jefferys was born in 1895 at Lithgow, New South Wales (NSW), the son of Peter and Rose Elizabeth Howard Jefferys, of Railway Station, Kuring-gai, NSW.

Royal Navy – HMS Dreadnought Robert Jeffery was born at Towcester, Northamptonshire on 31 October 1889. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class (Bugler) on 29 September 1905, just a month or so short of his sixteenth birthday. On his eighteenth birthday, 31 October 1907, he signed on for twelve years service

Royal Air Force According to his Royal Air Force (RAF) service record (National Archives AIR 79/1456/161792) Gilbert William James as born on 8 June 1877. However, the Register of Births indicates that his birth was in 1878 and therefore it is likely that 8 June 1878 is the actual date. The fact that he is

Royal Engineers Several of the military records relating to Sapper Hopkins feature only one first name, Frank, which may well be the name by which he was known. It is believed that William Frank Hopkins was born at Reading, Berkshire in 1896 and he was the son of William Hopkins (1851-1932), a consultant engineer and