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11th Battalion, Manchester Regiment James Stanley Young (known as Stanley or Stan) was born in 1889, the son of Thomas and Fanny Young of Church Road, Cinderford. Stanley Young spent some of his childhood in Tamworth before the family returned to Cinderford. He attended Double View Secondary School in the town and afterwards took up

HMS Pegasus – Royal Navy Douglas Harry Wright was born in Gloucester on 10 June 1895 and had joined the Royal Navy at Devonport prior to the outbreak of war. Much of his early life had been spent in Cheltenham. The Great War was less than two months old when the 2,135 ton protected cruiser

1st/6th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment Ellis James (Jack) Workman was born in Gloucester in 1889, one of three children born to Elia and Alice Mary Workman. A printer by trade, he attested for four years service in the Territorial Force (TF) at Stafford on 16 September 1914 and joined the 1/6 North Staffordshires. On 5

Royal Navy, HMS Gurkha Harold Courtnay Woollcombe-Boyce was born on 30 March 1887. Both his parents died within a week of one another in January 1892 and he was brought up by his grandfather, the Rev W F R Woollcombe-Boyce, who taught mathematics at Cheltenham College for 37 years, and his aunt, with whom he

1/5 Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Stanley George Wilson was born in Cheltenham but at an early age moved to Saffron Walden, Essex with his family, where he attended the Boys’ British School. He went on to take an apprenticeship with a local printer and upon its completion obtained a job as a journeyman printer with Norman

1/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Tyne Cot Memorial John Herbert Charles White was a former Cirencester Grammar School boy, who went on to be a solicitor’s clerk in Cirencester, prior to joining the 1/5th Glosters upon the outbreak of war. He was a grenadier with ‘B’ company, when 1/5 Glosters first went to France on 29

7th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry Frederick White was born in Great Tew, near Enstone in Oxfordshire, and enlisted in Cirencester. He served as 32046 Private Frederick White in the Worcestershire Regiment before being transferred to the Somerset Light Infantry; at some stage he also served with the Gloucestershire Regiment. He was the son of George

North Irish Horse (attached to 6th Battalion Tank Corps) Richard Annesley West was born in the Oxford Street area of Cheltenham on 26 September 1878. He served as a trooper with the Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War. He remained in South Africa until 1914 when he returned home and was commissioned into the North

5th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders William Cecil Wellicombe (or Willie as he was known) was born in Marlow, Buckinghamshire in May 1890. He was educated there and in Suffolk and after studying at London University he undertook several teaching jobs before arriving at Katherine Lady Berkeley’s Grammar School, Wotton-under-Edge, in September 1912, where he taught Latin,