Author name: Graham Adams

8th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment George Edwin Bennett was born on 8 June 1877 in Campden and was the second son of Henry and Ann Bennett of Watery Lane. His father was a native of the town and in the early 1900s was trading as a baker selling bread from his home in the Square. After […]

Army Cyclist Corps Albert Thomas Blunt was born on 31 July 1892, one of eleven children born to Thomas and Mary Ann Blunt, of Kingsholm, Gloucester. He joined the Army Special Reserve on a six year engagement on 3 January 1910 and was posted to the 2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment in July of that year,

37th Battalion Australian Infantry Albert George Bond was a natural born Australian, from West Bendigo, Victoria. He left his job as a farm hand to enlist in the Army on 28 September 1916, when aged 18. He arrived in England in December 1916 and on 1 September 1917 was posted to 37th Battalion in France,

10th (Service) Battalion – Gloucestershire Regiment Reginald James Betteridge was born in the London Borough of Chelsea in 1899. Prior to outbreak of war he was employed as a Correspondence Clerk at the Bowson Colliery, near Cinderford. Soon after the outbreak of war he volunteered for Army service and was posted to the 10th (Service

1st Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Henry Berry was born in Gloucester on 8 January 1883 and was educated at St Mark’s School. At the age of 16 in 1899, he enlisted in the Gloucestershire Regiment and subsequently served with distinction during the Boer War when he was awarded the Queen’s Medal. Between 1902 and 1909, Henry

2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regimentattached to 17th Indian Infantry (The Loyal Regiment) Theodore John Bennett was born at Cairncross, Stroud on 1 November 1893, the youngest son of Mr and Mrs Charles Bennett of Frome Park Road, Stroud. He was educated at Marling School and took up employment with Messrs Randell & Payne, Chartered Accountants at

Royal Gloucestershire Hussars John Crosbie Bengough was born in 1889 in a large country house, two miles north of Wotton-under-Edge. His father was a JP and his grandfather had been High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1877. He was educated at Rugby School and graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1911. He obtained a commission in

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William Bendall was born in Berkeley in 1889, the son of Sharpness dock worker William and hiswife Mary. William (junior) followed his father into dock work and married Mary Malpass in1908. Unfortunately no Army Service Record has survived for William but such information that isavailable shows him joining the 1st Battalion,