Author name: Graham Adams

Ventris-Field: Private Brian Fitzgerald (241032)

2/5th (Territorial) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Brian Fitzgerald Ventris-Field was the son of Alfred Ventris-Field a surgeon-chiropodist who practised at 6 Rodney Place in Cheltenham. Brian, along with his brother Victor, worked at the Gloucestershire Echo before enlisting together in the 2/5th (Territorial) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment on 21 September 1914. They went overseas to France in

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Vann: Lieutenant Colonel Reverend Bernard William VC MC & Bar, Croix de Guerre

1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derby Regiment) Bernard William Vann was born at Rushden, Northamptonshire on 9 July 1887, the fourth of a family of Jive sons born to Alfred and Hannah Vann. Both his mother and father were qualified teachers. After the death of her husband in 1906 Hannah Vann went to live

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