Author name: Graham Adams

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Edward Samuel Moody (he acquired the surname Wilkes later — see below) was born, it is believed, in December 1892 in the East Dean district of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. His parents were James Moody (a labourer) and his wife Elizabeth (née Wilce), living in East Dean and they had […]

2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Unfortunately, very little documentary evidence of Thomas Wilcox’s time in the Army has survived. Thomas William Wilcox was born in 1892 at Milton-under-Wychwood, which is a village about six miles from where he is buried, over the border into Oxfordshire. His father was William Richard Wilcox (1862-1937), a

3rd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry George Henry Wiggins was born in Gloucester in 1899, the son of James Wiggins (1853-1945) and his wife Louisa (née Davis: 1873-1922). By the time of the 1911 Census the couple had had thirteen children, of whom only seven were living at that time. George was the third

1st Battalion, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry Alfred John Williams was born in Cheltenham in late 1899, one of seven children born to Alfred Samuel and Fanny Williams, of whom three had died by the time of the 1911 Census. At that time the family lived at 2 Swindon Terrace, Swindon Road, Cheltenham. According to Leaving

3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Welsh Regiment Henry Widdows was Cheltenham born, in 1878, the son of George and Eliza Widdows. In 1904 he married Hannah (Annie) Stevens at St Philip & St James’ Church, Leckhampton. The couple had four children, born in 1904, 1915, 1914 and 1915. At the time of the 1911 Census the family

2nd Battalion, 73rd Malabar Infantry, Indian Army Edward John (Jack) Wibby was born in Gloucester, in the second quarter of 1896. He was the only son of John and Susan Wibby of 2 The Beeches, Tuffley Avenue, Gloucester, who also had six daughters. On 12 August 1914 left his occupation as a clerk and attested

11th Company, Machine Gun Corps Bernard Whyte was an Irishman and according to the Irish Memorial Records from the Great War he was born at Dunshaughlin, Co Meath, in 1897. His father was Joseph Whyte. Soldier’s Died in the Great War has him enlisting in Navan and residing in Ashbourne. Otherwise little is known of

12th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William Edward Whittington was born on 22 June 1887, son of William Whittington (1850-1913), a grocer, and Harriet (née Roberts) (1862-1937) of Broadwell Lane End, near Coleford. The 1911 Census shows him living at home, with parents and two sisters — Arabella (born 1889), Maud (born 1893) and brother Percy (born

25th Light Railway Company, Royal Engineers William Arthur White was born in Croydon, Surrey in 1889, the son of George Robert White (an engineer) and his wife Ruth (née Shoebridge) and was one of four children, two boys and two girls. He spent his early years in Croydon but had moved to Gloucester by the

‘D’ Company, 1/2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment Benjamin Hale White was born in 1889. At the time of his birth registration his name was Benjamin Hale but his father, also properly Benjamin Hale, took the surname White and both became Benjamin Hale White. His father Benjamin (1861-1950) was a collier and his mother was Sarah Ann

2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment Frederick Arthur Wherrett was born at Hope House Farm, Cambridge, Gloucestershire in 1895, one of thirteen children born to Joseph and Mary Elizabeth Wherrett, who later lived at Street Farm, Cambridge. The Wherretts were an old and well respected local yeoman family. Joseph Wherrett was a farmer (who died in an