Author name: Graham Adams

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Lewis Richard Hopkins was born at Longborough in 1883, the son of Richard and Hannah Hopkins. Richard senior appears to have spent some of his life as a farmer, a sub-postmaster and latterly as a roadman with the local council. According to the 1911 Census the couple had ten children, of […]

3rd Australian Field Artillery Brigade Leonard Frank Hopkins was born in 1893 at Inverell, northern New South Wales (NSW). He was the son of Edward and Elizabeth Hopkins, who lived at 11 Falcon Street, Crows Nest, NSW and later Lullingworth, Gordon Road, North Sydney. He was a student of engineering when he enlisted for military

Gloucestershire Regiment Private Hopkins’ entry in Soldiers Died in the Great War states his service was with the 8th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment. Notwithstanding the absence of an Army Service and Pension Record, this would appear to be an error, as other documents point towards the 2nd and possibly the 1st Battalion. Arthur Edwin

13th (Forest of Dean Pioneers) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Benjamin Thomas Hope was the only son of Benjamin (died 1894) and Ann Hope, of Ruardean Hill, Drybrook, born in Westbury-on-Severn district in 1892. His obituary in The Dean Forest Mercury reported that he had been ‘wounded in the early days of the recent advance’, probably in

2/4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Renford Charles Hooper was the son of William and Harriet Hooper. William was an agricultural worker. There is some confusion as to Renford’s date of birth. According to the CWGC register he was aged 42 when he died in 1920, which would give his birth year as 1878. However, on his

5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Charles Hooper was aged 53 when he re-enlisted for one year’s service in the Territorial Force, on 12 October 1914. On his attestation papers he declared his age to be 49, no doubt concerned that the Army would reject an over 50 year old. He was in fact an ‘old soldier’

3rd Battalion, South Wales Borderers Information on Bert Hooper is rather sparse. The CWGC register states that his age at time of death was 23, which would indicate a birth year of 1895. A check of Birth registrations for Cheltenham indicates that the birth of a Frederick Albert Hooper was recorded in the first quarter

Devonshire Regiment Albert Edward Hooper was born at Kinsham in 1888 to James Hooper and Annie Hooper (formerly Tandy). James was born in Overbury and worked as an Agricultural Labourer or Cowman, whilst Annie came from Stoke Heath in Worcestershire. James and Annie had a total of eight children. In 1901 the family was living

Leicestershire Regiment Albert Holyland was born in Wigston Magna, Leicestershire in early 1898. He was the son of Thomas Holyland (1867-1927) and his wife Elizabeth (née Williamson: 1863-1918). The couple had eight children, six of whom (four boys and two girls) had survived up to the time of the 1911 Census. The family were then

1/1st Battalion, Herefordshire Regiment Arthur Vincent Holman was born in 1877 at Prestbury, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the eldest child and only son of George Christopher and Fanny Amy (known as Amy) Holman (née Hulbert). He had four siblings, Alice, Daisy, Elsie and Nora. He married Elsie Wilkins, daughter of Frederick William and Caroline Emily Wilkins (née

7th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment James Holland (his full name may have been Ernest James Holland) was born at Gloucester either at the end of 1888 or the beginning of 1889 (he was baptised on 17 April 1889). He was one of nine children born to Richard Henry Holland (1858-1933), a dock labourer and his wife