Author name: Graham Adams

9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment James Bradley was a ‘Brummie’ whose Army service lasted less than six months and he never saw action. He was born at Small Heath, Birmingham in about 1887, the son of Bartley and Maria Bradley and at the time of the 1891 Census was living at Hednesford, Staffordshire. In 1901, when […]

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment James Ernest Bowstead was the son of Edward Charles and Sarah Jane Elizabeth Bowstead. His address was 22 Bloomsbury Street, Cheltenham: he is also associated with 12 St Paul’s Street South, Cheltenham. He was an old boy of Holy Trinity School. James’ regimental number indicates that he was probably a Special

Royal Navy – HMS Powerful Frank Harry Bowstead was born on 24 July 1900 at Cheltenham, the son of Charles Joseph and Sabona Bowstead of Arle Cottage, Tewkesbury Road, Cheltenham. He is recorded in the CWGC Register as serving with HMS Powerful. This was a ‘protected cruiser’ built in 1896, however, HMS Powerful ll and

Royal Engineers (Waterways & Railways) John Wilfred Bowring was born on 10 March 1893 at South Cerney, one of six children born to William John Bowring (1869-1939), an agricultural labourer and his wife Rhoda Phyllis Selina (née Bateman: 1874-1954). Rather unusually, he was not baptised until 5 December 1910. At the time of the 1901

296th Railway Company, Royal Engineers Robert Stanley Bourne was born in Cheltenham on 24 December 1881, the eldest son of William and Katherine Bourne of 256 High Street, Cheltenham. He was educated at Christchurch Higher Grade School and upon leaving entered the plumbing trade. He married Emily, daughter of George Cresswell of 10 Blenheim Road,

7th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Walter Eli Booth was born at Daglingworth, just north of Cirencester in early 1886. He was baptised there on 26 April of that year. His parents were Albert George Henry Booth (1857-1913) and Matilda (née Curtis; 1859-1936). Albert’s profession was a butcher. The couple had seven children, of whom six were

37th Battalion, Australian Infantry Albert George Bond was the son of Edward and Ethel Beatrice Bond of 277 King Street, West Bendigo, Victoria. He was a natural born Australian, educated at State School, Golden Square, Bendigo and at the time of enlistment stated his occupation to be farm hand. A single man, he enlisted at

648th Agricultural Company, Labour Corps Alfred Burford (who may have also had the middle name of Henry) was born in the Stroud district in the third quarter of 1884. At the time of the 1901 Census he was living in Nailsworth, with his widowed mother and his occupation was noted as a brewer’s bottler. On

645th Mechanical Transport Company, Royal Army Service Corps Frank Elliott Burdock was one of five children born to Walter Henry and Caroline Burdock of Painswick. Walter’s father had started the building/plumbing/ decorating business of Burdock & Sons in 1832 and both Walter and Frank carried on the business which marked its 150th anniversary in 1982.

Royal Army Service Corps (HT) Regrettably I have been unable to establish Andrew Charles Buchanan’s parentage but know he had at least two siblings, Robert and James. Although no age was given on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) records or his memorial, based on the cemetery record Andrew would have been born c1888. He

Army Service Corps Hubert Emmanuel Browning was born at Longney, Gloucestershire in 1888. His parents were Adolphus Browning (1855-1934), a mariner who skippered vessels plying the coastal trade in the Bristol Channel and along the South Wales coast and his wife Sarah Ann (née Apperley: 1853- 1939). According to the 1911 Census, the couple had