Author name: Graham Adams

10th Battalion, South Wales Borderers Hubert Charles Ayres was born in Avening in 1893. He was the son of John Ayres, an agricultural labourer and his wife Lucy Ann. Originally Lucy Ann Ind, she had been widowed by the time she was 28, having had a daughter (Rhoda May, born about 1881) and married John […]

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Charles Nelson Walton Aston was the son of Charles (a railway porter) and Elizabeth Aston and was born in Gloucester in the second quarter of 1877. At the time of the 1891 Census Charles was aged 13 and a ‘milk deliverer’, living at Millbrook Street, Gloucester. Ten years later, at the

Mercantile Marine Reserve – HMS Morea George Henry William Arnold was born at Chepstow in the fourth quarter of 1901. He was the youngest of five children born to blacksmith George Arnold and his wife Mary Ann E (née Lyes; born at Brockworth), whom he had married at Chepstow in 1889. At the time of

Royal Naval Air Service George Geoffrey Allen Armitage was born on 4 June 1893, at Gloucester, the son of Henry and Katherine Armitage of The Nab, Newnham on Severn. His father was a solicitor and Clerk to the Gloucester Board of Guardians. His early career was in the Merchant Navy and he gained his Second

53rd (Young Soldier) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment Frederick Sidney Argent was born in 1900 at Forest Gate in the West Ham district of East London. His parents were James Argent, an engineer fitter, born in Bethnal Green in 1858 and his wife Alice, who was born in Ashleworth in 1861. The couple had eight children, of

2/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William George Apperley was born in the first half of 1894 at Hempstead, Gloucester to George (an agricultural labourer) and his wife Annie (née Dawe), who was seventeen years his junior. The couple had married at Gloucester in the previous year and went on to have four children (William, Edith born

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William Leonard Allen was the fourth of eight children born to Henry and Mizellia (formerly Loveridge) Allen — a gypsy family. His Mother’s name is variously spelt amongst historical records including Millicent, Priscilla and Ella. William’s birth was registered at Highworth, Swindon in the third quarter of 1894 and there is

1/4th Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment) William George Andrews was born at Harnham, near Salisbury, Wiltshire in 1886 (he was baptised on 26 December of that year). His parents were George (who died in 1917, aged 70) and his wife Mary Jane who died in 1904, aged 59). The 1911 Census records that they

7th (Queen’s Own) Hussars Augustus Allinson was born in 1861 in the parish of St Mary, Woolwich, Kent. His father was Augustus Ward Allinson MD, who died on 3 April 1870 and in 1860 he had been appointed as Honorary Assistant Surgeon to the Royal East Kent Rifles Yeomanry. His mother was Fanny Francis Virtue

5th Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps Geoffrey Dunster Allen was born at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia on 9 November 1896, the son of George and Susannh Allen of Maynella, 7 Deakin Avenue, Haberfield, Sydney, New South Wales. He was educated at Newington College, Sydney and served for a year with the Senior Cadets, as

2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry George Frederick Aldridge was born at Henley-onThames, Oxfordshire in 1886. He was the son of Henry (a farm labourer) and his wife Jane (née Tranter); the couple had married in 1868 and produced nine children, seven boys and two girls. Henry died in 1891, aged 53 and Jane