Author name: Graham Adams

2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Sidney Walter Charles Brookes was born in Newent, Gloucestershire in 1895 and baptised in Hartpury on 2 June 1895. He was the eldest son of Francis George Brookes and Louisa (née Bendall) of Broad Street Hartpury, previously of Woolridge, Gloucester. According to the 1911 Census, Francis and Louisa stated that they […]

1st London Sanitary Section, Royal Army Medical Corps Although there are significant gaps in our knowledge of Frederic Brocklehurst’s military career, he appears to have been an educated man, who served for a large part of the war. Frederic Heathcote Brocklehurst was born at Eton, near Slough, in the latter part of 1891. His parents

7th Battalion, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment William Brinkworth was born in Gloucester in 1898. His parents were Thomas and Susannah (known as Annie) and according to the 1911 Census the couple had six children, of whom five were surviving. Thomas was an engine stoker at a flour mill and the family lived at

10th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Henry Wycliffe Brewis was born in Hornsey, London on 8 May 1894: he was the youngest of Samuel and Emma Chambers Brewis’ five children, three of whom were daughters. Samuel Brewis was a coal merchant and the family lived at Mount Waltham, 47 Netherhall Gardens, Hampstead, London NW3. He initially joined

17th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers William Gilbert Boucher was the second of five children born to Charles and Anna Boucher (variously spelt as Bowsher/Baucher on Ancestry). Charles was born in Kingston St Michael in Wiltshire in 1861 and Anna in Avening, five years later. The couple were married in Kingston in 1884 and by 1888 were

5th Battalion, Border Regiment George Albert Booth came from the East End of London, born in 1880 at Stepney, one of six children born to Thomas Wilson Booth and his wife Mary Ann. According to both the 1901 and 1911 Census his occupation was a print machine worker, however, on his attestation papers for military

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Sydney Francis Bond was the third son of Sydney Bond (a saddler and harness maker) and his wife Elizabeth. He was born at St Briavels in the Forest of Dean on 16 October 1900. The family had previously lived in Wales before taking up residence at The Willows, Longford, Gloucester. Young

11th Battalion, Leicester Regiment Thomas William Bolter was born at Hillmarton, a village between Calne and Wootton Bassett in north Wiltshire, on 12 July 1896. His parents were Richard William Bolter (1852-1935), a farmer and his wife Emily Jane (née Jefferys: 1862-1948). The couple had five children, born between 1894 and 1904 and Thomas was

Royal Engineers (Tunnelling Company Depot) Arthur James Bloodworth was the son of Walter and Elizabeth Bloodworth and was born at Dursley either in the last weeks of 1881 or early in 1882. He was a carpenter by trade, with King & Co in Gloucester and it was that trade that he took into the Army,

Royal Navy – HMS Suffolk Arthur Edward Birt was born in Lambeth, south east London on 30 March 1875. He was the son of Daniel and Eliza Birt of 8 Spring Gardens. After a short period as a postman he joined the Royal Navy as a Boy entrant and the 1891 Census shows him as

8th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment Francis Biggs, known as Frank Biggs, was born in Woolaston in 1879, son of Elizabeth Biggs (1841-1919), his father is unknown. In 1881 Elizabeth Biggs, unmarried, and her six children, was housekeeper to a William Davis, a shoemaker, in Woolaston. In 1885 she married Francis Williams of Sand Tumps, Woolaston. Frank