Author name: Graham Adams

1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Henry James Fisher was born in Stroud on 23 March 1898 to Henry and Alice Fisher (née Tooze). Henry senior was born in Burton on Trent and Alice in Stroud. Henry senior’s father’s occupation was maltster so it is possible the family came to Stroud in approximately 1876 to follow this […]

5th Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps Edgar Thomas Filmer was born at Taralgon, Victoria, Australia on 8 November 1899, the son of Edgar Stephen and Kate Mason Filmer, of Sarsfield, Gippsland, Victoria. He was a carpenter by trade and enlisted into the Australian Flying Corps (AFC), as an Air Mechanic Second Class at sale, Victoria

15th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps Joshua Haddon Fenton was born in Woollahra, New South Wales (NSW), Australia in about 1892. His parents were Charles and Eleanor Mary Fenton and at the time of the Great War they were living at 11 Prospect Road, Summer Hill, Sydney, NSW. Joshua left his position as a

2/7th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment William James Evans was born in Cheltenham in the third quarter of 1899 , the fourth child (third son) of James and Annie Evans who, according to the 1911 census, had ten children and at that time were living at 11 Guestriss Cottages, Guestriss Terrace. Marhill. His father was a

10th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers Vivian Augustus Evans was born in January 1894, the son of Thomas and Emily Evans of Forge Cottage, Lower Redbrook, Gloucestershire. His father was a woodman on an estate and by the time of the 1911 census the couple had had six children. He was an employee of Redbrook Tinplate

1/14th Battalion, London Regiment (London Scottish) William Harkness Evans was born at Bradley, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire on 20 April 1897. He was the son of Albert Bevan Evans (1871-1951) and his wife Julia Augusta (née Wilson: 1871-1964). He had one brother, Leslie Edward Wilson Evans (1898-1982). At the time of the 1911 Census the family

Royal Army Service Corps Orlan Alfred Evans was born in Nailsworth in the latter half of 1889. He was the son of Edward Evans and his wife Jemima Ellen (née Waite) and he had two sisters and one brother. His brother Robert died in 1916, as did his mother. The family lived at Inchbrook Farm.

Army Service Corps George James Evans is said to have been born on 3 April 1878 in Alvington, near Lydney, son of John Evans (1845-1919), a self-employed blacksmith, and Harriett Evans (formerly Jones) (1847- 1911). The family home was Knapp Cottage, Alvington. George James Evans attested at Lydney, initially for the Gloucestershire Regiment, on 9

2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment Albert Evans was the son of Henry James Evans (1864-1932?), a carpenter and joiner and his wife Maria Ann (née Cleveland: 1865-1908). The couple had married in 1864 and lived at St Mark’s Street in Gloucester. The 1901 census shows four children, Henry (born 1890); Albert (born 13 November 1891); Edwin

‘D’ Training Battalion, Machine Gun Corps Howard William English was born at Woolaston, between Lydney and Chepstow, in the final quarter of 1891, one of eight children born to Thomas English (a farmer) and his wife Emily Beatrice (née Thomas). At the time of the 1911 census the family lived at Ashwell Grange, Tiddenham, near

Royal Navy – HMS Endymion Harold Wilfrid Ellis was born in Worcester on 2 July 1898, the eldest of five sons and one daughter born to Henry (Harry) and Mary Ellis. His father was an estate labourer. In 1916 the family lived at Park Road, Blockley but appear to have moved to 8 Cromwell Terrace,