Author name: Graham Adams

18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division (US Army) Sydney Richard James was born on 22 September 1890, the son of Thomas and Matilda James of Nelson Green, near Cinderford. After leaving school he worked at the Arthur and Edward Colliery at Lydbrook. On 9 September 1914 he sailed, with his younger brother Walter, from Liverpool to […]

1/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Richard Compton Jackson was born in Gloucester in 1895, the only son of a father of the same name, a commercial traveller, and his wife Mary Eliza. At the time of the 1911 Census Richard junior) was at school and the family lived at Rose Villa, Lightpill, Stroud. Unfortunately Richard’s service

1st Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment William Henry Ireland poignantly died of wounds on Christmas Day 1914 near Festubert. He was born at St Mary’s in Cheltenham and lived with his parents in All Saints Road. In July 1903 he enlisted in the 1st Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment and served with them for seven years. When war broke

10th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment John Francis Ireland and Frederick James Ireland were the two youngest sons of Arthur and Fanny Ireland. The brothers were brought up in the family home in Butt Green, Painswick. They volunteered together in 1914 and were posted to the 10th (Service) Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment. Both were sent with

10th Gloucestershire Regiment John Francis Ireland and Frederick James Ireland were the two youngest sons of Arthur and Fanny Ireland. The brothers were brought up in the family home in Butt Green, Painswick. They volunteered together in 1914 and were posted to the 10th (Service) Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment. Both were sent with the

1/19th London Regiment Roland Innocent was a member of a well-known local family that lived in Sherborne House and ran the auctioneer business Innocent & Son that exists today as Moore, Allen & Innocent. He was born on 21 October 1899 and attended prep school at Southsea and then Shaftesbury Grammar School. He originally served

A Coy, 2nd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment The four sons of Mr & Mrs Hughes. In the front row are Albert, on the left and Harry, on the right. Almost 200 sets of brothers have been identified as having died on the same day whilst serving with British and Empire forces in the Great War. One

A Coy, 2nd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment The four sons of Mr & Mrs Hughes. In the front row are Albert, on the left and Harry, on the right. Almost 200 sets of brothers have been identified as having died on the same day whilst serving with British and Empire forces in the Great War. One

Gloucestershire Regiment Arthur McCulloch Inglis was born 14 July 1884 at the Caledonian Hotel, Inverness, Scotland. He was the second son of Lionel Arthur Lister Inglis, born in Bengal in 1845, and Agnes Kate Inglis (née Murrell), born Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, and was therefore Anglo-Indian. His sibling Lionel was born in 1882 in Cheltenham, and his

Royal Navy – HMS Hawke Rupert Henry Ingles-Chamberlayne was born on 4 July 1897. He was the son of Henry and his second wife Grace Ingles-Chamberlayne, who lived at The Hyde, Stow-on-the-Wold. Rupert joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Cadet in 1910 and became a student at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, on the

Royal Garrison Artillery Charles Francis Hutchings was born at Redditch, Worcestershire on 24 June 1883. His parents were Ion John and Hannah Sarah Hutchings (née Sloman) and he had four sisters – Ethel Lavinia, born 1885; Alice Mabel (1887); Annie Elizabeth (1893) and Louisa (1878). Charles received his education at Board Schools at Redditch and