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8th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment From The Graphic – Edward Vick is in the centre Edward Vick was born in Cheltenham on 12 November 1888 to Benjamin and Elizabeth Vick who lived at 17 Fairview Road, Cheltenham. He was educated a t All Saints’ School, Cheltenham. On 7 September 1914 he enlisted into the 10th Battalion […]

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

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

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Slimbridge War Memorial Alfred Maurice Savage Underwood was born in Eastington to John Underwood and Rosetta Wherrett on 17 December 1883. He was the eldest of five children. Rosetta died as a result of his birth and he was brought up by his father and step-mother Lydia Kezia Wherrett, Rosetta’s younger

Royal Marine Light Infantry (Portsmouth Division) Henry Walter William Turner, also known as ‘Harry’ or ‘Tiny’ was born in Wotton-under-Edge on 22 February 1895. Before joining the Royal Marines he had worked in a butcher’s shop in the town and as a carter. He enlisted into the Royal Marine Light Infantry in Bristol on 23

8th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Frederick Henry Tudor was the son of Henry and Alice Julia Tudor, nee Ball. He was born in Slimbridge in 1892, one of seven children and twinned with his sister Sarah Elizabeth. The 1901 census records him living in Slimbridge, on Slimbridge Street (now Ryalls Lane), with his mother and six

1/5 Gloucestershire Regiment Alan John Trinder was born in Cirencester and lived at Querns Hill. He enlisted at Swindon in August 1914 and went to France with the 1/5 Glosters on 29 March 1915. In July and August 1916, the Battalion was involved in heavy fighting around the Somme villages of Ovillers and Pozieres. On

Royal Field Artillery Sydney Vyvyan Trevenen was born on 2 January 1894, the son of a Cheltenham solicitor living in Christchurch Road. He was educated at Cheltenham College between 1908 and 1911 and then, having been accepted at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich, moved away from his home town. On 19 December 1913, Trevenen was

1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment Walter Roy Tosswill was born in 1894 to Walter and Edith who lived in Clayhill, Lechlade, Gloucestershire. His family later moved to Cheltenham where they initially lived at The Oaklands and later Rosehill before going on to reside in the small village of Woolstone just north of Cheltenham. In 1907

8th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment Wilfred Taylor was born in Cinderford in 1897, the eldest son of William, a coal miner, and Lucy Taylor of High Street, Cinderford. After leaving Double View Secondary School he was apprenticed to a grocer. He later moved to Hatfield in Hertfordshire to take up employment with the Star Tea Company.

D Company, 5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Sidney Sysum was born in Gloucester on 9 June 1895, one of twelve children, to Charles and Mary Sysum. After leaving school in 1909 he worked first as a marble polisher before joining the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited. Sidney was a keen rugby footballer and played