Author name: Graham Adams

464th Battery, 179th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery Hardly any documentary evidence has survived of Joseph’s time in Army service and he would appear to be one of the victims of the ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic of 1917-1919. Joseph George Whatcott was born in Chipping Campden in the latter half of 1896 and was one of nine […]

6th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles George Wilbert Westaver was born on 8 February 1879, the son of Simon Lawson Westaver and Matilda (née Coolen), of Hubbard’s Cove, Nova Scotia. It would appear that his mother died either during childbirth or shortly after and that he was an only child. In 1880 his father re-married, to

6th Labour Battalion, Royal Engineers Much of what is known of Pioneer Welsh’s military service is contained in a surviving Army Service Record and a report of his death in the Gloucestershire Echo of 24 December 1915. Other than this little or nothing is known of his life. The Gloucestershire Echo report states that William

Royal Navy – HMS Vivid Walter John Wellington was born in Gloucester on 26 January 1893: he was the son of William and Nellie Wellington, of 2 St James Street, Gloucester. He left his job as an errand boy to join the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 30 January 1909. He steadily

2nd/4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Ernest William Wellington was the only son, and youngest of eight children, of Joseph Wellington and Jane Stephens. His siblings were Alice (1879), Rose (1880), Agnes (1882), May (1884), Edith (1885), Margaret (1889), and Jenny Maria (1892) He was born in Gloucester in 1893 and baptised on 24 September 1893 at

5th Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps Jack Henry Weingarth was probably the most experienced of pilot buried in Leighterton Church Cemetery. He was born at Marrickville, New South Wales (NSW), Australia on 17 May 1892, the son of John L and Gertrude Weingarth of Linden, Ethan Avenue, Darling Point, Sydney (latterly 10 Castlereagh Street, Sydney).

Royal Naval Reserve According to Joseph Webster’s Service Record in the National Archives (ADM 188/114) he was born at Over, Gloucester on 29 September 1860. However, it has not proved possible to verify this via Ancestry. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second class on 26 February 1877 and worked his way up

10th Battalion (Alberta), Canadian Infantry Frank Trevor Webster was born on 20 September 1885 at Tirionfa, Chalford Hill, near Stroud. He was the eldest of five sons born to Frank Applin and Mary Webster, neither of which were local. Frank was born in Lymington, Hampshire, his father being a Master Mariner, and Mary was born

3rd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment Jesse George Webber, who was born on 27 August 1870 at Shrewton, Salisbury, Wiltshire, the illegitimate son of Ellen Webber, was registered at Amesbury, Wiltshire as Jesse Green Webber. It is understood his father was a Mr Green. Ellen Webber died on 10 April 1871, aged 28 years, and the 1881

2/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William George Webb was born in Upton St Leonards in 1897 (he was baptised on 5 December of that year). His parents were John Webb (1876-1947), a labourer carving timber and his wife Anne Elizabeth (née Day: 1877-1961). The couple had four children, three boys and a girl and William was

Royal Army Medical Corps This biography is the result of research on Ancestry and correspondence with family members — descendants of William’s children. The name ‘Orchard’ caused initial problems in research for both myself and the family. William Dick Orchard Webb was the sixth of seven children born to Letitia and James Webb of Tower